Wikipedia is spending almost twice as much in 2021 as in 2017, while page views only inched up a little bit [0]. Whatever they’re spending it on, it’s not going

Wikipedia is spending almost twice as much in 2021 as in 2017, while page views only inched up a little bit [0]. Whatever they’re spending it on, it’s not going to keeping the site running or improving the quality of it by, say, actually paying quality editors. They’re certainly not strapped for cash like they pretend to be in their donation banners. From a 2017 post: > The modern Wikipedia hosts 11–12 times as many pages as it did in 2005,[20] but the WMF is spending 33 times as much on hosting,[21] has about 300 times as many employees, and is spending 1,250 times as much overall. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has... [0] https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/total-page-views/normal|bar|2017-01-22~2022-01-04|~total|monthly https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/total-pag...