[refraincomment]

Wikipedia quality has actually gone down since the donation campaigns started.

A website like pypi gets much more server load and they have never asked for a penny.

[denkquer]

there is no way on earth pypi traffic is higher than wikipedias.

[refraincomment]

https://dtdg.co/pypi

pypi servers receive 1 million requests per minute. That's likely more than wikipedia.

[joosters]

https://pageviews.toolforge.org/siteviews/?platform=all-acce...

en.wikipedia.org has around 260 million page views per day. Each page view consists of multiple HTTP requests (picking a few random pages shows twenty or more per page) - so I'm pretty sure that wikipedia has higher traffic figures.

[londons_explore]

Both wikipedia and pypi requests are >99% readonly and cacheable, and neither have strict global consistency guarantees. That makes them very cheap and technically easy to run through a free global CDN like cloudflare.

[svenhof]

You make it sound like Cloudflare would be OK serving all Wikipedia or pypi traffic for free. Reality would be a little different.

[matsur]

https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/wikimedia-foundation :)

[di]

Fastly currently serves all of PyPI's CDN traffic for free. Cloudflare probably would as well.

[theelous3]

It seems wikipedia english gets 255m per day. This doesn't include all of their image hosting and other side services though. I think those are in the many hundreda of millions if not billions. Id say they are at least comparable.

It's kinda moot though. I wouldn't begrudge pypi asking for money either.

[Qub3d]

Back-of-the-envelope math says Wikipedia serves at least twice as much traffic.

According to Wikipedia's public statistics[0], they receive ~3 Billion media requests per day, which is about 2 million requests per minute.

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/content/total-med...