Dan, I am happy to give you the TL;DR version:
As best I can make out, the WMF's average salary cost per employee is now about $200,000. More could be said, of course: – The WMF had already exceeded its revenue goals for the 2021/2022 fiscal year by the end of March, bringing in over $150 million in the first three quarters[1] (total expenses last year were $107 million). – Including the endowment, I estimate the WMF now has about $400 million in assets (almost all in cash and investments). – In India, past donors are reporting being inundated with daily WMF emails telling them money is needed to keep Wikipedia online, independent, ad-free and thriving.[1] – Internet hosting costs are $2.4 million per year, and Erik Möller thought in 2013 the Wikimedia mission was sustainable on $10M+/year. – Very little of Wikimedia's money actually goes to India (0.64 million in 2020 for all of South Asia, per Form 990).[3] Andreas [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Tuning_Session_FY21-22_Q3_Advancement.pdf&page=9 [2] https://www.facebook.com/deemopahan/posts/10159230509968878 [3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/e/e4/Wikimedia_Foundation_2020_Form_990.pdf#page=29 On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 3:46 PM Dan Garry (Deskana) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 23:25, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you've spotted an error in my reasoning or think you can provide a >> better estimate, please do so and share your working. Many eyes make all >> bugs shallow. >> > > My feedback is that you've put so many walls of text and numbers on this > mailing list, that whatever point you're attempting to make is buried > underneath it. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ASE3NXY474JRM4J57AWAT5JQ6FXS6S4O/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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