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The Twitter thread devolves into various random citations of "wokeism", and that's all fine and well for those who care to argue such examples on Twitter. But even aside from the culture war quagmire, the first few tweets in the thread are fascinating. Wikipedia is up to 400+ employees now? It's spending grew from $10 million in 2010, to $112 million in 2020? The actual website costs are only $2-3 million per year, a…

> The actual website costs are only $2-3 million per year, and have declined over the past decade? The HOSTING cost. Not the total cost to run it. That's a big difference.

It’s my understanding that a large percentage of hosting costs are donated by large companies like Google…

Re: The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on political activism

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The actual website costs are only $2-3 million per year, and have declined over the past decade? The HOSTING cost. Not the total cost to run it. That's a big difference.

It’s my understanding that a large percentage of hosting costs are donated by large companies like Google…

Again: irrelevant. Hosting costs are often quite small compared to the ops and dev costs.
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