This girl acts like Wikipedia owners don’t realize this shit. It’s about principles. Modern web is simply cancer that is eating out the planet from the inside, one TCP segment at a time (although with HTTP3 and QUIC we gotta call it a datagram!).
I realize this is just a fun video, but I got super triggered because I am dead tired of ‘Silicon Valley Mindset’ and this girl embodies it to the extreme.
Saying Wikipedia is a bastion of the old web is funny.
Wikipedia has cancer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
they’re talking about the principles of free knowledge and the commons without goals of money
They haven’t had a single year with net loss. That’s an impressive track record compared to most other tech companies.
That’s absolutely not the point about the article I just sent.
The point about the article is that WMF’s spendings are somehow unsustainable. I don’t think that’s necessarily the case.
The article points out:
Maybe why you didn’t notice anything is exactly because they made these spendings to ensure no major hiccups? I’m confident OG Wikipedia code wouldn’t be able to support their internet hosting needs today. Maybe their infrastructure costs would be 100x of today’s if they hadn’t spent the R&D on optimizations?
Sure, their spending is likely not 100% optimal. But given how Wikipedia is still one of the most visited sites and is still financially healthy through multiple financial crises (without diverting from their core business model), I wouldn’t worry too much about their spendings.
The point of the article is that the costs increased non linearly with the number of user, the cost just keep increasing.
A few line before what you quoted: The point is taken into account, the traffic did x12 and the costs of server x33, and the author call it
So the traffic did x12, but the spending on staff did x1250.
Did you skipped this whole part on purpose or you didn’t read the article completly and jumped to there ?
You started to say “yes but they didn’t had a single year in a net loss”, the point of the article I sent is that wikipedia is spending too much money because they have too much money.