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They barely use any of the money they raise for Wikipedia itself. It's used for a wide variety of other purposes. As with all donations, once it's out of your p
by soperj 12y ago
They barely use any of the money they raise for Wikipedia itself. It's used for a wide variety of other purposes. As with all donations, once it's out of your pocket, you have no say on where the money goes.
- Schiphol 12y ago[citation needed]
- soperj 12y agohttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/7/75/2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/7/75/2013-2... 40% of their projected expenses go to product & engineering. Last year they had expenses of 32.3 Million on 50.9 Million of revenue. Which really means they used 25% of raised money on product & engineering, and Wikipedia is definitely not it's only product.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoThey spend 24% on "Legal & CA, HR, Fin & Admin". So they spend at least 64% on running the Wikimedia projects, no?
- soperj 12y agoYou forgot to take out the 16% they spent on grants, the 9% on fundraising, the 9% on grant making and development.