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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by arnaudsm on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:14PM (#26028719)
Which is 3% of their total expenses that year. Considering how much exposure and grants conferences can bring to a non-profit, it seems fair.
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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by Wowfunhappy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:17PM (#26028741)
I can understand that, but the more surprising thing was that hosting is even less...
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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by whimsicalism on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:42PM (#26028975)
Hosting a static site doesn't sound that expensive, plus they're likely not paying for a premium & costly cloud provider like AWS/Azure.
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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by saagarjha on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:37AM (#26035243)
Wikimedia isn't completely static…
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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by whimsicalism on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:33PM (#26039621)
Okay, sure - but many, many more reads than writes. That is cheaper to implement with caching, CDN, etc.
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