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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by joshuaissac on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:11PM (#23480238)
The parent poster is correct. WMF spends about US$2m on hosting annually (out of $100m+ in annual donations), and burns almost $90m per year, as if it were some kind of VC-funded startup.[1][2] Spending $46m on salaries is ridiculous when almost all of the work is done by unpaid volunteers.[2]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21699011

2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...

Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by secondcoming on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:49PM (#23480650)
To quote from that financial statement:

"Volunteers also contribute in several ways to the Foundation’s wiki software: volunteer software developers add new functionality to the code base, and volunteer language specialists add to the code base by translating the wiki interface into different languages. During the year ended June30, 2019, there were 48,361 commits merged, through the efforts of approximately 447 authors/contributors, of which 9,158 commits were through the efforts of approximately 258 volunteers."

If I was one of those volunteers I'd stop.