alt Hacker News> Wikipedia spends $185m per year
Only a small fraction of that is spent on actually hosting the website. The rest goes into the pockets of the owners and their friends.
You can do a lot with very little if your primary goal isn't to enrich yourself.
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phatfish • today at 4:34 PM
My countdown to donating to Wikipedia when a random MAGA nerd makes some baseless claims is getting close. When Elon had his little rant a couple of years ago it got triggered as well.
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Do you have a source for that?
Being a 503c, they're required to disclose their expenditures, among other things. CN gives them a perfect score, and the expense ratio section puts their program spend at 77.4% of the budget https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703#overall-ratin...
Worth mentioning that Wikipedia gets an order of magnitude more traffic than the Internet archive.