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1. ivanje+Je[view] [source] 2022-10-12 11:33:19
>>nickpa+(OP)
I found Wikimedia's financial statement for 2020[1], in case anyone interested in details.

They have over 500 employees[2]. Not sure why they need so many, considering average salary is $100k/yr.

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

[2]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/#prod...

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2. naaski+8H[view] [source] 2022-10-12 14:08:54
>>ivanje+Je
> They have over 500 employees[2]. Not sure why they need so many

I would be totally fine with them hiring hundreds of translators to expand Wikipedia in other languages. English Wikipedia has 4x as many entries as most other languages. They clearly have the cash that they're spending on weird grants and projects that seem more tangential to their original purpose.

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