Wikimedia — nothing is free
I just Google’d to get some more information on the CEO of the company I work for this summer, Samuel J Palmisano. One of the results that came up was from Wikipedia – the online free encyclopedia.
At the top of the Wikipedia site, said
Wikimedia needs your help in its 21-day fund drive. See our fundraising page.
Over $110,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity!
So I clicked on this link, and read some staggering information:
Wikipedia.org alone gets 800 million hits a day, making it one of the top 50 websites in the world….
800,000,000 / 24 / 60 / 60 = ~9259 hits / second ——– Thats very serious
and their budget for Q3:
Quarter 3 (1 July to 31 September)
Hosting related
Hardware $125,000.00 63.13%
Hosting charges $16,000.00 8.08%
Domain names $1,000.00 0.51%Personnel
Chief Technical Officer $12,000.00 6.06%
Hardware assistant $1,500.00 0.76%
Executive assistant $5,000.00 2.53%
Travel $7,500.00 3.79%
Legal expens & insur $4,000.00 2.02%
Office expenses $2,500.00 1.26%
Audit of records $2,000.00 1.01%
Chapter startup money $2,000.00 1.01%
Promotional $500.00 0.25%
Miscellaneous expens $1,000.00 0.51%
Reserve (10%) $18,000.00 9.09%TOTAL $198,000.00
Thats insane, if you can give some money..
