[WikiEN-l] Some Observations

[Anthony]

On Nov 28, 2007 7:45 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's not a matter of "owing", it's a donation.
>
In which case, it has nothing whatsoever to do with how many pages you view.