On 2 March 2010 20:30, Chris Lewis yecheondigital@yahoo.com wrote:
Mediawiki makes millions more than Wordpress does too, why can't the money be put into making a modern product instead of in pockets of the people who run it?
The Wikimedia Foundation makes millions more than Wordpress, but the Foundation is running a top 5 website. That they are able to do that on just a few million is amazing. The other top 5 sites are things like Google than spend billions. Maintaining and improving Mediawiki is just one of the things the Foundation does with its relatively small budget. The only money going into the pockets of the people that run the Foundation is their very reasonable salaries. The board get nothing (except their actual expenses, and some don't even claim those) and there are no shareholders getting profits (the WMF is a charity).