it's crazy so many people on the timeline take at face that it costs $145 million a year to run wikipedia. it acts like it's broke all the fucking time while sitting on $250 million cash and getting $160 million in donations every year. the server cost is a tiny fraction of that, it has grown from $1.057 million in 2009 to $2.7 million in 2022. wikipedia can run for 100 years with just the current reserves. the excessive donations don't just go towards an administrative bloat, they advance things harmful to humanity and the very concept of free knowledge. sources: 1. upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped… 2. wikimediafoundation.org/abou…