Wikipedia is not short on cash

>>nickpa+(OP)
Let's look at the numbers and compare the 2020-2021 (the latest audited results) financial statements [1] to 2010-2011 [2]. All of this is publicly available as it is for any 501(c)(3) non-profit. Some selected numbers:

                                 2021         2011
    Current Assets           208,678,345   20,784,992
    Donations                153,096,642   23,020,127
    Salaries                  67,857,676    7,312,120
    Internet Hosting           2,384,439    1,799,943

So the WMF has ballooned in staff. I'm reminded of colleges where the administration keeps inexplicably growing (as do admin salaries). I'm also reminded of the quote: "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".

I'm one who is seeing these Wikipedia donation links currently (apparently not everyone is yet) so I'm glad this article raised the issue. The WMF probably has enough assets to run itself on a shoestring budget in perpetuity.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

[2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/ac/FINAL...

>>jmyeet+ie
I agree that it feels a bit like Mozilla: An organization that got too much money and tries to figure out what to do with it.

Mozilla ended up wasting an insane amount of money on things other than Firefox.

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