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::We took Ko-Fi donations to cover the hosting fees for 2024, and already reached the goal a while ago, since it was just 600 bucks for 12 months. Those will be refunded if this goal pans out. Some may be surprised to hear the wiki only costs 50 bucks a month and serves millions of people with good performance. Other wiki admins have told me this is "seriously impressive." I think I tend to under-value my own work. I've already been running the site like a fairly high-grade professional the whole time, but didn't ask for anything because it's still a community effort in the end of the day. Being able to do this full-time would be really nice though. I'll be improving MediaWiki extensions, bringing Nginx modules on Debian up to date, writing detailed technical documentation, etc., so the whole MediaWiki community will benefit from these things as well as a side-effect. [[User:Taylan|Taylan]] ([[User talk:Taylan|talk]]) 10:41, 29 July 2024 (CEST) | ::We took Ko-Fi donations to cover the hosting fees for 2024, and already reached the goal a while ago, since it was just 600 bucks for 12 months. Those will be refunded if this goal pans out. Some may be surprised to hear the wiki only costs 50 bucks a month and serves millions of people with good performance. Other wiki admins have told me this is "seriously impressive." I think I tend to under-value my own work. I've already been running the site like a fairly high-grade professional the whole time, but didn't ask for anything because it's still a community effort in the end of the day. Being able to do this full-time would be really nice though. I'll be improving MediaWiki extensions, bringing Nginx modules on Debian up to date, writing detailed technical documentation, etc., so the whole MediaWiki community will benefit from these things as well as a side-effect. [[User:Taylan|Taylan]] ([[User talk:Taylan|talk]]) 10:41, 29 July 2024 (CEST) | ||
:::You are simultaneously saying you undervalue your work while suggesting you make money off the work of others (which is what a community wiki is all about). This is exactly why people hated Fextralife and loved this placen it felt like an actual proper place, by the people for the people. | |||
:::it starts at ads first, but what then? What happens after that, with no notice, no polls anything? We have no guarentee it stops there. You want your full time job to consist of this wiki, and the 90% content of volunteer contributors (likely an exaggeration, but I doubt by much. Most of it is still community volunteer work) | |||
:::You haven't done much to convince me that this choice wasn't made out of greed. [[User:Schism|Schism]] ([[User talk:Schism|talk]]) 16:58, 29 July 2024 (CEST) | |||