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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... tl;dr: Wikipedia's
by sltkr 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
tl;dr: Wikipedia's expenses grow exponentially year-over-year and it's not clear where the extra money is going, since the basic experience of Wikipedia hasn't changed all that much in the past decade.
Year Support and revenue Expenses Net assets at year end
2003–2004 $80,129 $23,463 $56,666
2004–2005 $379,088 $177,670 $268,084
2005–2006 $1,508,039 $791,907 $1,004,216
2006–2007 $2,734,909 $2,077,843 $1,658,282
2007–2008 $5,032,981 $3,540,724 $5,178,168
2008–2009 $8,658,006 $5,617,236 $8,231,767
2009–2010 $17,979,312 $10,266,793 $14,542,731
2010–2011 $24,785,092 $17,889,794 $24,192,144
2011–2012 $38,479,665 $29,260,652 $34,929,058
2012–2013 $48,635,408 $35,704,796 $45,189,124
2013–2014 $52,465,287 $45,900,745 $53,475,021
2014–2015 $75,797,223 $52,596,782 $77,820,298
2015–2016 $81,862,724 $65,947,465 $91,782,795
2016–2017 $91,242,418 $69,136,758 $113,330,197
2017–2018 $104,505,783 $81,442,265 $134,949,570
2018–2019 $120,067,266 $91,414,010 $165,641,425
2019–2020 $129,234,327 $112,489,397 $180,315,725
2020–2021 $162,886,686 $111,839,819 $231,177,536
2021–2022 $154,686,521 $145,970,915 $239,351,532