Huge thanks to nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq79ltdg762kvmhjeyxunscg5vtl2653e994zhqdv68r7d2mn8ctdqjvyf2g (nprofile…yf2g) for providing some hard numbers: https://sunny.garden/@RaffKarva/115906901920683278
> If bot traffic is 65% of their Internet cost, that’s $2.2m, or a third of their travel and conferences costs or 1.5% of their revenue.
Which makes Wikimedia Foundation's decision much more ambiguous, but I would still argue that it's not morally WRONG.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annual-report/ for some easy-to-find numbers from 2 years ago.
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