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points by lavadora 2 days ago | 0 comments

That would be good, as I imagine that wikipedia is in survival mode these days, as less and less people visit their site directly Even so more people indirectly benefit from its content

[–] hamolton 2 days ago

It's not in survival mode, they have a pretty large endowment and low dev spend they'd like to increase. The number of edits per week has been roughly steady for years, and their revenue per year has been increasing steadily. Their hosting costs are hyper-optimized and tiny; they spend much more on programmers and lawyers.

[–] asdff 2 days ago

Wikipedia is not supported by ads and site views.

[–] honeycrispy 2 days ago

The donation banner is an ad.

[–] cowlevel 2 days ago

And a profit-maximizing one at that. They've got plenty of money but they need as much as possible, no different from a Zuck enterprise in that regard.

[–] unethical_ban 2 days ago

Pedantic without a point. A first-party ad for support of the platform is entirely a different category than running ads for other services, served from third-party ad companies.

[–] asdff 2 days ago

And is their rake on that correlated with site views? I'd guess not so linearly like it is with ad impressions. It is a different business model.