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This girl acts like Wikipedia owners don’t realize this shit. It’s about principles. Modern web is simply cancer that is eating out the planet from the inside, one TCP segment at a time (although with HTTP3 and QUIC we gotta call it a datagram!).

I realize this is just a fun video, but I got super triggered because I am dead tired of ‘Silicon Valley Mindset’ and this girl embodies it to the extreme.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      151·
      8 months ago

      they’re talking about the principles of free knowledge and the commons without goals of money

        • magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
          51·
          8 months ago

          The point about the article is that WMF’s spendings are somehow unsustainable. I don’t think that’s necessarily the case.

          The article points out:

          For those readers who were around three years ago, did you notice at the time any unmet needs that would have caused you to conclude that the WMF needed to increase spending by $30 million dollars? I certainly didn’t.

          Maybe why you didn’t notice anything is exactly because they made these spendings to ensure no major hiccups? I’m confident OG Wikipedia code wouldn’t be able to support their internet hosting needs today. Maybe their infrastructure costs would be 100x of today’s if they hadn’t spent the R&D on optimizations?

          Sure, their spending is likely not 100% optimal. But given how Wikipedia is still one of the most visited sites and is still financially healthy through multiple financial crises (without diverting from their core business model), I wouldn’t worry too much about their spendings.

          • Kuinox@lemmy.world
            4·
            8 months ago

            The point of the article is that the costs increased non linearly with the number of user, the cost just keep increasing.

            Maybe why you didn’t notice anything is exactly because they made these spendings to ensure no major hiccups? I’m confident OG Wikipedia code wouldn’t be able to support their internet hosting needs today. Maybe their infrastructure costs would be 100x of today’s if they hadn’t spent the R&D on optimizations?

            A few line before what you quoted: The point is taken into account, the traffic did x12 and the costs of server x33, and the author call it

            This seems reasonable given that they have improved reliability, redundancy and backups.

            since 2005 the WMF has hired hundreds of extra employees and is now spending 1,250 times as much overall

            So the traffic did x12, but the spending on staff did x1250.

            Did you skipped this whole part on purpose or you didn’t read the article completly and jumped to there ?
            You started to say “yes but they didn’t had a single year in a net loss”, the point of the article I sent is that wikipedia is spending too much money because they have too much money.