[Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 December 2010 22:09, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If WMF wanted to spend less money, the fundraiser would have much lower profile, right? :)
>>> I somehow want us to think about our users and service as primary objective, not just organizational issues.
>>
>> When you budget 2 million for internet hosting, and 9 million for
>> salaries and benefits, it's bound to raise some eyebrows, I think.
>
> Only from people that don't realise what is involved in hosting a top
> 5 website. Just $9m on salaries and benefits? That's a drop in the
> ocean compared to the money spent on salaries for other similar sized
> sites, even if you exclude the salaries of people involved in their
> content generation (which we obviously get for free).
>
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Yes, and only 4 times what the actual internet hosting of a top5 web site costs.