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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week agoso you’re judging their costs and balances based on ten year old data? and acting like times haven’t changed enormously in that decade?
I know the amount of bandwidth AI’s are using to scrape wikipedia is itself an onus:
arstechnica.com/…/ai-bots-strain-wikimedia-as-ban…
softwarist@programming.dev 1 week ago
Here is their FY 24–25 Audit Report. To wit, their net assets were $296.6 million, while their total internet hosting expenses were $3.5 million. So the claim that hosting expenses make up a trivial fraction of their total assets would appear to hold true even moreso today than a decade ago.
Granted, the FAQs for the report state that “The vast majority of […] revenue came from donations […], as well as investment income, Wikimedia Enterprise revenue, and other revenue primarily related to a cost sharing agreement with the Wikimedia Endowment”.
I remain suspicious of the large increases in “Salaries and wages” year-over-year compared to other expense categories.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
cool, you do you. don’t donate and continue to use it like a parasite lol
softwarist@programming.dev 1 week ago
I prefer the term “commensalist”
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
sure thing parasite. no, actually you’re worse than a parasite, you’re actively discouraging people from doing the right thing.
you’re an asshole lol