[laverya]

Because in the end every organization is vulnerable to being eaten from the inside and worn as a skinsuit by parasites. Especially charities.

Why would they spend money on improvements to the site when they could spend money on other things instead?

[manquer]

it is the easiest line item to spend on .

Wikipedia has one of the best SRE teams, they were pretty transparent too, a lot of the communication was on IRC channels you could see, at least that was the case few years back.

Running the top 5 website in the world is no joke especially as a non-profit and they do it well. They haven’t had any down time or major incident in the last decade which is pretty impressive.

I would think their SRE team is not just good but also very motivated in the mission otherwise they would leave for much higher paying jobs, infra jobs are very lucrative if you have prior experience at more scale not much more scale than Wikipedia .

[laverya]

I agree that their SRE team is good, well motivated, and transparent. That does not mean that they are the first priority for resources, or that it's the easiest line item to spend on.