Erik Moeller wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >> It costs about $2.5 million to keep the sites operational for a year. > >How did you come up with that number?
I used to say $2 million, but Roan recently told me that it had probably gone up since that estimate (from 2009). So now I say $2.5 million. It's advertised on Meta-Wiki here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/?banner=money_or_die>. ;-) As I recall, the $2 million (now $2.5 million) figure came from discussions with technical staff about what it would cost to keep the site running for a year and an examination of relevant Wikimedia-related budget breakdowns that were split out between non-technical staff costs, overhead costs, etc. However, following Cunningham's Law, if you have a better figure, please share. :-) We can certainly say it's far less than $35 million to only keep the sites up and running (barebones hosting support and related tech staff costs), the question is how much less. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
