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"The modern Wikipedia hosts 11–12 times as many pages as it did in 2005, but the WMF is spending 33 times as much on hosting, has about 300 times as many employees, and is spending 1,250 times as much overall."

Are there any comparable data on the costs for 11x( 16 billion PV/M) this? (I'm thinking google/amazon here)

"their poor handling of software development has been well known for many years."

So is the problem inefficiency in the code/HW setup? That is solvable. Any pointers to the hosting solution used?




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