Wikipedia has Cancer (Wikipedia costs growth over time)

[Macha]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

[ampdepolymerase]

The growth looks perfectly normal if you take into account the growth of the internet.

[wodenokoto → ampdepolymerase]

the argument hidden away from the graphs are that wikipedia went from 1.4 billion page views in 2005 to 16 billion pageviews in 2019, which is far from matching the growth in spending.

Not mentioned is that WMF is now hosting highres images and video.

[Narkov]

With net assets increasing at a similar rate, I don't see this as a problem.

[perryizgr8 → Narkov]

Why does Wikipedia have $180M in assets though? Is it just servers and such?

[greazy → perryizgr8]

Wikipedia hoards money. I believe they have 3-5 years worth of expenses in the bank saved up.

[theknocker]

I still don’t comprehend wtf they’re spending all that money on. It’s a crowd-sourced text website. I stopped donating because they do literally nothing at all to curtail activist editors.