If editors don't get better tools, they'll stop editing. Then the content for basic users will not be worth reading.
Source: continuously edited since 2007, and continue in large part due to improved tools.
Source: continuously edited since 2007, and continue in large part due to improved tools.
Do you think that $40 million is a reasonable cost for those improvements?
And yes, it's reasonable. I work in tech as a software engineer and it's not as cheap as people think.
But you’re right, plenty more companies burn through that without much to show for so in comparison WMF aren’t doing too bad, I guess. It still sounds somewhat excessive to me though.