[WikiEN-l] Some Observations

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Nov 29 06:59:21 UTC 2007


Thomas Dalton 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.
We don't want to suggest 1¢ donations if they are going to use PayPal.  
We can wait for the pennies to arrive by snail mail. ;-)

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