Robert Rohde wrote: > What resources? With only ~1.5M hits per month, EN Wikinews' share of > the tech / internet services budget probably only comes to a couple > thousand dollars per year, in other words basically a rounding error > in the budget.
I'd guess it's less than that. I just calculated cost/pageview numbers for a client that serves a lot of pages, and adding the Wikinews traffic to their load would cost them maybe $40/month, even including a share of hardware costs. I don't have the WMF numbers handy to do the equivalent comparison, but I wouldn't be surprised if WMF page views were an order of magnitude cheaper given their scale and their non-profit status. Either way, it's plausible Wikinews covers its own expenses through generated donations. Shutting it down would also have costs, both financial and reputational. So the question for me isn't so much, "should we keep it running?" but, "why would we pay to kill it?" William _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
