On Nov 28, 2007 5:50 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brian McNeil (Wikinews) posted to foundation-l a
suggestion of a
Wikimedia toolbar for Firefox that would count your page views and
suggest a cash donation to WMF when you'd reached 100 Wikimedia pages
or whatever. I suggest an extra feature: you can pay in cash *or*
effort
Let's see... 15,000 page requests/second = 473 billion requests per
year for Wikipedia? At $4.7 million dollars to handle those requests
that means I owe $0.00001 per page request. At a below minimum wage
rate of $5/hour, I guess I owe 0.72 seconds of effort for every 100
Wikimedia pages I view.