Comment Re:Peanuts compared to their value (Score 1) 202
You can hardly claim they are being secret about it.
No, it's not being kept secret per se - but it is kept in a dusty filing cabinet in a basement. They don't exactly publicize it, and what publicity they do undertake (the fund raising banners) gives a very different impression.
However, when you look at the presence of WikiPedia on the internet, it's basically first hit on google in every search on every possible subject.
If anyone but Wikipedia was as efficient at spamming Google - they'd change their ranking algorithm. That Wikipedia does it "subconsciously" as it were doesn't change the fact that many of the results are near the top because Wikipedia is keyword dense, has plenty of keyword internal links, and the pages are routinely changed - not because of any particular value of a given page.
They have a HUGE presence. If someone had to put a value on that, it would be worth billions.
Which is completely irrelevant as to whether or not Wikimedia, the non profit foundation should, retain so much cash on hand, have employee and salary costs so out of proportion to operating costs, and continue as somewhat misleading advertising campaign.