“The Wikimedia Foundation has pulled in millions of dollars, even as the cost of web hosting (about $2.5 million/year) has remained constant. As it turns out, less than half of the Wikimedia budget has anything to do with running Wikipedia. With the rest of the money, the Foundation have vastly expanded their staff; the organisation now employs 400 people and by the end of 2021 they had accumulated over $230 million in assets. Because they now have vastly more money and more people than they need to run a crowd-sourced encyclopedia, they have become a grant-making institution.”
Next it is time to see how Wikipedia's rating system of "reliable sources" also suppresses speech.
Wikipedia rates Consortium News as UNRELIABLE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources
CONSORTIUM NEWS cannot be a citation for Wikipedia.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has pulled in millions of dollars, even as the cost of web hosting (about $2.5 million/year) has remained constant. As it turns out, less than half of the Wikimedia budget has anything to do with running Wikipedia. With the rest of the money, the Foundation have vastly expanded their staff; the organisation now employs 400 people and by the end of 2021 they had accumulated over $230 million in assets. Because they now have vastly more money and more people than they need to run a crowd-sourced encyclopedia, they have become a grant-making institution.”
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-managerial-menace?
That's a really good eugyppius article.
Who reads/uses Wikipedia?