• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Wikipedia’s pages are created and edited by a community of volunteers, while the Wikimedia Foundation manages the website’s technical backend.

    Mind you, it’s about doubled since, but they don’t publish breakdownsThey have enough cash to operate wikipedia for more than 100 years according to the public IRS filings.

    On the lower end, vice presidents Carol Dunn and Margaret Novotny were paid $241,438 and $242,379 respectively, the filing shows.

    wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the internet, contains terabytes of information, doesnt host ads, and is entirely free to browse.

    The CEO of Docusign, a company that JUST signs documents for you, made $85,940,000 this year," wrote another person, whose post garnered over 22,000 likes.

    The encyclopedia is also one of the most important sources of training data for AI tools like ChatGPT, Nicholas Vincent, a professor at Simon Fraser University, told The New York Times.


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      The CEO of Docusign, a company that JUST signs documents for you, made $85,940,000 this year," wrote another person, whose post garnered over 22,000 likes.

      That just shows how grossly overpaid other executives are. The problem isn’t that Wikipedia execs aren’t paid enough, it’s that other executives are paid way too much.

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        I mean I’d argue that the Wikipedia execs are still paid too much given their actual productive output.