Why is this allowed?
Why is this allowed?
Ayden Barnes
Owen Bennett
Elijah Morris
Literally pages of this shit to wade through
Josiah Wood
>pages
>literally the size of a banner on my monitor
You know what I wish wasn't allowed? Phoneposting.
Brandon Johnson
Last I checked they spend like 90% of their budget on seminars, travel and no doubt plenty of needless employees. Servers are only like 10%.
They publish their fiances so you can look it up.
Gabriel Evans
interesting
so they need money for traveling ?
Daniel Diaz
/thread
Colton Rogers
One would swear they are barely able to pay for the servers with all the urgent sounding banners they run.
Ayden Reed
Where did that extra $100,000 come from in 'other income'???
Eli Edwards
Soros xDDD
Gabriel Flores
w3m on the framebuffer posting only
Asher Kelly
nonprofits need donations to stay afloat, you just realizing this now?
salaries are a fair thing to spend a lot of budget on, would you rather they forced their employees to work for free?
probably merchandising
Juan Smith
> not just issuing manual HTML commands and reading in less
Fucking browser fags
Gabriel Reyes
Nothing wrong with it, rather give 5 bucks a year than to have them spy on my shit and sell to advertisers.
Kevin Price
Only $2 million in hosting fees for the whole of Wikipedia? In all languages?
Why does Hiroshimoot complain about how much it costs to host 4channel?
Ryder Robinson
Or you could give them 1 buck and they could just focus on keeping a website up and running, making minor improvements and perhaps some basic moderation, instead of hiring a fuck ton of employees for diversity and education and shite.
Charles Morris
>Why does Hiroshimoot complain about how much it costs to host 4channel?
Because he's a con artist looking to make money, he's used the "Oh no the hosting fees, please help" strategy before with 2ch.
Carson Price
Merchandising. They don't include it anywhere else but they do have a store.
Mason Barnes
>less than 5% of donations goes to internet hosting
literally a scam
Nicholas Russell
>My NEET ass compiles the linux kernel 7 times a day, why don't others work for free?
>I've never had a job, so I don't understand how business operation works.
Christopher Lee
I mean who's going to pay all the editors...oh wait.
Michael Mitchell
They run Apache instead of nginx, so they can't handle the load
Cooper Wilson
So you actually do know nothing about how the site operates? What a surprise, another idiot on Jow Forums
Kayden Butler
you're right, phoneposting should not be allowed
Joseph Davis
Wikipedia originally ran UseModWiki, a general wiki script by Clifford Adams. In January 2002, we switched to a PHP script, which in turn was completely overhauled the following July to create what we now call MediaWiki. Currently, most of the PHP code in Mediawiki at Wikimedia Foundation uses HHVM JIT compiler, although some services use Zend Engine PHP, and there is work in progress to move MediaWiki back to running on that.
database backend: MySQL and MariaDB, both
frontend and caching: Nginx and Varnish
application server: Apache
domain-name service: gdnsd
Search: Lucene-based ElasticSearch
Jeremiah Watson
>running a donation drive under the pretence that wikipedia is in dire need of funds, when in reality 97% of donations go to a slush fund for the wikimedia foundation to pay out the board of directors and a ton of employees who have absolutely nothing to do with wikipeadia
>not a scam
wake the fuck up
Nolan Wilson
of course I mean every website needs a board of directors that are each paid 300k+ with a bunch of employees who work on completely unrelated projects. Who cares that the site was built by the community, is exclusively user content and those users aren't paid anything or that it's suppose to be "not for profit". it's just common scene