150m a year for one of the most trafficked websites on the internet is a bargin
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gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 3 months ago150m a year doesn’t seem that much, honestly. I know people think “oh, it’s just a website” but it takes a lot of work and money in salaries and infrastructure hosting to keep a web application as popular as Wikipedia up and running.
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
nik9000@programming.dev 3 months ago
I used to work for them. It was weird and wonderful and I miss it and I don’t. Lots of mission driven folks working hard to keep things going getting very little respect. But a lot of respect. But sometimes none.
Iirc a lot of their budget is spent doing charity stuff. Encouraging contributions for tiny languages. Trying not to cave to Russia or the US or France. Trying to make it less of a boys club. Trying to get local organizations going.
I remember once they sent an email that said “if the French government asks you to delete this page please just delete it. It’s not worth going to jail. Someone outside of France will revert the delete.”
I wasn’t qualified for the work. No one was. But it was honest work.
lledrtx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thank you for your work, though!
Very curious about the page French govt wanted deleted.
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Genocides in the colonies.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Curious to read more about that but I can’t seem to find a source for it. Do you have one?
nik9000@programming.dev 3 months ago
My memory is hazy but I think it was this: arstechnica.com/…/wikipedia-editor-allegedly-forc…