[WikiEN-l] Some Observations

[Anthony]

On Nov 28, 2007 5:50 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at 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.