Post #4294466

2026-06-13 17:01 UTC

@luis_in_brief@social.coop god, the cost of WMF-level infra. has anyone got an estimate of what it would cost to stand up and run? @bvibber@wikis.world do you have numbers you are able to say?

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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social 2026-06-13 17:15

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @luis_in_brief@social.coop @bvibber@wikis.world for a start one could do a dark archive ready as a fail-over, compare with arxiv https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/

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@KalenXI@mastodon.social 2026-06-13 17:18

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @luis_in_brief@social.coop According to their annual report the hosting costs are around $3.4 million per year. https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2024-2025-annual-report/#toc-financial-accountability

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@bvibber@wikis.world 2026-06-13 17:35

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @luis_in_brief@social.coop i do not have numbers offhand, but wmf annual budget is a strict upper bound ;)

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@iain@kolektiva.social 2026-06-13 18:37

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @luis_in_brief@social.coop @bvibber@wikis.world Wikipedia, but decentralised!

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