Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by zozbot234 on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:39AM (#27340951)

10 years ago would've been 2011 or so. I'd say it's very much in the ballpark wrt. global impact, considering everything that Wikimedia does and the way the projects have grown. Of course, much of it has to be credited to growth in Internet and Web access since then.

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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by sharken on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:47AM (#27341361)

I think it's fair to say that server costs and global reach of Wikipedia is up, and factor in some ambitious goals the current expenditure is not too unreasonable.

Money is a funny thing, in Denmark about $320 million is spent on Covid testing a month. So from January to July that would be the equivalent of Wikipedia funding for 20 years.

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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by Dylan16807 on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:23AM (#27341599)

> I think it's fair to say that server costs and global reach of Wikipedia is up, and factor in some ambitious goals the current expenditure is not too unreasonable.

I'd definitely want an analysis on the server costs. Compared to ten years ago you can get vastly better servers per dollar and about ten times the bandwidth per dollar.

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