Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer
by lancesells on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:18AM
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My quick math leaving out a lot of details and what-ifs:
Wikipedia spent $110M to run the site last year. That's $9.16M a month. If hosting is $2M per month that leaves $86M annually.
With no other expense that leaves an annual salary of $287,000 per employee. If you run a business you're most likely going to spend 1x an employees salary on all types of costs. So average salary is closer to $143,000 if they have only employees and hosting as a cost which is next to impossible.
Wikipedia can double their employees for all I care. Triple them even. Please just stick around and keep doing whatever it takes to keep the lights on and running.
For a site that is a part of the internet and seems to be very much a net positive to the world it's crazy to think a staff of 300 is a lot. 300 employees keep doing your work!
Wikipedia spent $110M to run the site last year. That's $9.16M a month. If hosting is $2M per month that leaves $86M annually.
With no other expense that leaves an annual salary of $287,000 per employee. If you run a business you're most likely going to spend 1x an employees salary on all types of costs. So average salary is closer to $143,000 if they have only employees and hosting as a cost which is next to impossible.
Wikipedia can double their employees for all I care. Triple them even. Please just stick around and keep doing whatever it takes to keep the lights on and running.
For a site that is a part of the internet and seems to be very much a net positive to the world it's crazy to think a staff of 300 is a lot. 300 employees keep doing your work!