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 1ยข donations if they are going to use PayPal. We can wait for the pennies to arrive by snail mail. ;-)
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