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No doubt they have had to scale significantly. … But have they had to scale to a degree commensurate with the amount of money they are spending? Absolutely not
by Karunamon 4y ago
No doubt they have had to scale significantly.
… But have they had to scale to a degree commensurate with the amount of money they are spending? Absolutely not. The "Wikipedia has cancer" article makes that point handily.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoHow do you know? If you've run the numbers from their financial statements, I'm keen to see your analysis.
- dlubarov 4y agoThe 21-22 annual plan [1] just shows "Technical Infrastructure" as 23.8% of "Programmatic", which is 76% of the budget, so 23.8% * 76% = 18%, or $27m. "Technical Infrastructure" includes "all the engineering and technology" though. I'm not sure if a breakdown which includes server costs is available? I remember it being a pretty small piece of previous budgets. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_2021-2022_Annual_Plan_Overview.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Wikimedi...