On 2 March 2010 20:30, Chris Lewis <yecheondigital(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Mediawiki makes millions more than Wordpress does too,
why can't the money be put into making a modern product instead of in pockets of the
people who run it?
The Wikimedia Foundation makes millions more than Wordpress, but the
Foundation is running a top 5 website. That they are able to do that
on just a few million is amazing. The other top 5 sites are things
like Google than spend billions. Maintaining and improving Mediawiki
is just one of the things the Foundation does with its relatively
small budget. The only money going into the pockets of the people that
run the Foundation is their very reasonable salaries. The board get
nothing (except their actual expenses, and some don't even claim
those) and there are no shareholders getting profits (the WMF is a
charity).