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When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others. |
When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others. |
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Compared to the other top-5 websites, the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, is pretty bare-bones: |
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*Google: 1,000,000 servers, 24,000 employees. |
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*Facebook: 60,000 servers, 2,000 employees. |
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*Microsoft: 220,000 servers, 90,000 employees. |
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*Yahoo: 50,000 servers, 13,900 employees. |
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*'''Wikipedia: 370 servers, 73 employees.''' |
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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 420 million different people every month – with billions of page views. |
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 420 million different people every month – with billions of page views. |