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18m/year pays for maybe 40-60 engineers. An engineer might get paid 150k, but their salary doesn't include the cost of buildings, facilities, insurance, benefit
by socialismisok 4y ago
18m/year pays for maybe 40-60 engineers. An engineer might get paid 150k, but their salary doesn't include the cost of buildings, facilities, insurance, benefits, payroll, etc etc etc.
But then you aren't paying for legal, hr, recruiting, admins, leadership, data center workers, etc.
To say nothing of the global operations teams you need to ensure Wikipedia is compliant with local laws.
18m to run Wikipedia would be absolutely threadbare.
- cypress66 4y agoWikipedia expenses were around that in 2011. What significant improvement has Wikipedia had ever since, now that it spends 10x more? There's more content sure, but that's the volunteers work.
- IshKebab 4y ago> An engineer might get paid 150k There's zero reason for Wikimedia to be paying SV salaries. Nor do they need 50 engineers.