[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

[George Herbert]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>
>> It costs about $2.5 million to keep the sites operational for a year.
>
> How did you come up with that number?
>
> Erik

Can you propose a better number for arguments' sake (not a
firm-committed-accurate number, but for the sake of argument is it
roughly $2.5 million, $5 million, $10 million, ?

Thanks.

[capacity planning wonk hat on] Of course, this is a shifting target,
and we really would need to consider both edit and readership growth
patterns along with cost patterns over long times for bare server,
CPU, RAM, storage, and network equipment, as well as systems
management trends and total effort to maintain the code on a minimal
keep-viable basis.  [capacity planning wonk hat off]


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com