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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/molly0xfff/statuses/113761396862987485">Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 08:39:22 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" title="molly0xfff@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/34789-48-20230824095227.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Molly White" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Molly White</a><div><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113761390190616222" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>Musk has occasionally brought up the question of why the Wikimedia Foundation needs such a large budget. (The Foundation’s annual budget for 2024–2025 is 0.3% of Musk’s proposed pay package, by the way.)</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" rel="tag">#Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ElonMusk" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/USpolitics" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/USpol" rel="tag">#USpol</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4303146#notice-8412280">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-03T08:39:22+09:00" title="Friday, 03-Jan-2025 08:39:22 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113761396862987485" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113761396862987485">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3831540">Spending
Some of the ostensible concern about Wikipedia revolves around its spending, though not about the most recent boneheaded claims that Wikipedia is “wasting $50 million” on “DEI” that I’ve already addressed. Amusingly, the question of whether the Wikimedia Foundation’s actual spending is justifiable is arguably Musk’s most reasonable argument, but it’s also one he hasn’t brought up in a long time. “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!j So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”, wrote Musk in October 2023.45Setting aside why Elon Musk is the one asking this question — the man who says he personally needs a pay package46 of 300-500× the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual budget for the upcoming year47 — Musk betrays the same complete lack of understanding for how software companies work as when he acquired Twitter and claimed it would work just fine if he fired nearly everyone based on absurd evaluations of their productivity (it hasn’t).48 While the cost to simply host a 50-gigabyte stripped-down copy of Wikipedia, or even the hundreds of terabytes of all content across all projects, might be comparatively low, Musk is apparently ignorant to the massive infrastructure costs for running a project like Wikipedia: maintaining and developing MediaWiki (the software that doesn’t just display Wikipedia articles</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/761/393/505/676/570/original/854feb6a2ae45188.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/761/393/505/676/570/original/854feb6a2ae45188.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 08:39:22 JST Molly White
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Musk has occasionally brought up the question of why the Wikimedia Foundation needs such a large budget. (The Foundation’s annual budget for 2024–2025 is 0.3% of Musk’s proposed pay package, by the way.)
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1. Spending Some of the ostensible concern about Wikipedia revolves around its spending, though not about the most recent boneheaded claims that Wikipedia is “wasting $50 million” on “DEI” that I’ve already addressed. Amusingly, the question of whether the Wikimedia Foundation’s actual spending is justifiable is arguably Musk’s most reasonable argument, but it’s also one he hasn’t brought up in a long time. “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!j So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”, wrote Musk in October 2023.45 Setting aside why Elon Musk is the one asking this question — the man who says he personally needs a pay package46 of 300-500× the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual budget for the upcoming year47 — Musk betrays the same complete lack of understanding for how software companies work as when he acquired Twitter and claimed it would work just fine if he fired nearly everyone based on absurd evaluations of their productivity (it hasn’t).48 While the cost to simply host a 50-gigabyte stripped-down copy of Wikipedia, or even the hundreds of terabytes of all content across all projects, might be comparatively low, Musk is apparently ignorant to the massive infrastructure costs for running a project like Wikipedia: maintaining and developing MediaWiki (the software that doesn’t just display Wikipedia articles
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