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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CANCER ]. I'm just saying.

This is being discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_... New Developments I am pretty sure that they would welcome comments from Hacker News users…

Wikimedia Enterprise timeline: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Wikimedia_En... Also see Wikipedia: Camel's nose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose

How were they paying for this? I don't see any sources of revenue that could fund the hosting described.

But who would pay the 137,201 active editors? Oh, wait, they are all unpaid volunteers. OK, who would pay the 1,149 administrators? Oh wait, they are all unpaid volunteers too. OK,…

It sounds like some here are of the opinion that Wikipedia's revenue will never take a nosedive for any reason and that the bubble will never burst. Now where have I heard that kin…

Ah. I had no idea that they ran out of orphans. If they did, then it would be a perfect analogy. Boys town takes care of all the orphans that it is their mission to take care of, k…

It has indeed been raising an endowment for several years, but every time I ask them to structure the endowment so that the WMF cannot legally dip into the principal when times get…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". Calling out concrete examples of waste also has a downside. It usually results in the discussion goi…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". I believe that I did "actually describe a scenario where it was well functioning but ran out of mone…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". :Would you really prefer it if Wikipedia allowed David Miscavige ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... I don't think I have ever hinted…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... Your reference to boys town miss…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... There are a huge number of troll…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…

It turns out that the ycombinator.com software won't accept a link that ends with a dot. This works: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:YWAB

Thanks! looks like it was a screwup by the ycombinator.com software. The original link ends with a period, and the software stripped it out -- probably because adding a period afte…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/…