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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by kaba0 on Monday May 31, 2021 @08:50AM (#27343532)
If an existing talent-pool is located there, why exactly should they move? Is a small inefficiency a failing of a non-profit? No company is a perfectly efficient profit-making machine (even though for-profits like to drop morals for profit), why are we feeling tricked by a non-profit wasting some negligible percentage of donations, especially that 100% efficiency is frankly impossible?
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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by jiofih on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:23AM (#27343818)
What talent pool? Wikipedia is not running any cutting edge tech that requires CS or research talent.

We are feeling tricked because it’s about 5% efficient right now.

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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by CRConrad on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:37PM (#27348843)
"A small inefficiency"?!?

They're paying two to three times as much as they would have to pay anywhere else. That's not a "small" inefficiency, it's a pretty huge one.

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