can someone explain please

[Sparx]

Reading this thing by the guy who started wikipedia

AppealCH/uk - Wikimedia Foundation

Why does it take $10m a year to run with 35 people?

 

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they probably give themselves big bonuses like bankers do ;}

 

[Ch3tan]

Well it's their full time job, so what 40-60 thousand dollars a year on the cheap side salary? That is $2.1 million right there, and I would imagine their salaries closer to $100k. Then you have the actual costs of running the business, all the assets they must pay for, and then the bandwidth costs etc. It's a non-profit organisation, $10million does not sound that much tbh.

All their costs etc seem to be publicly available; it's not just the wikipedia site remember, it's the entire wikimedia foundation that is run on that $10mill a year. More info here, FAQ will answer pretty much anything you need: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en

edit2:// here is a pdf of their spending plans in 2010: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...imedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan_FINAL_July2.pdf

 

[Sparx]

cheers i'll look into that, i was wondering why they wanted so much

 

[Bugz]

Contribution history - Wikimedia Foundation

They are pulling in a lot of fuckin cash in donations!