Wikipedia earned $184M from donations, the servers cost less than $5M
20 points by nailer
by triceratops
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I wish they would ringfence the money needed to run Wikipedia's service in perpetuity. Some kind of trust fund that throws off enough income from investments to fund just the servers and a couple employees to maintain them. About $200m should be more than enough.
I don't know if they've done that already. But it means they can be around forever, no matter what foolishness they get up to with the remainder of their donations.
by s1mplicissimus
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Can we have a look at X's finances too and have an opinion on wether people should give them money?
by 31337Logic
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Wikipedia is supremely useful. Twitter is a dumpster fire no one needs. I'll continue to throw a few bucks to Wiki next year, thanks.
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