can it be true?

[mrmod]

I did a quick search, and it appears that the Wikimedia foundation currently cost around $10 million to run.

Is that per year?

Yep. A little more than $10 million per year to run all of wikipedia, wikimedia commons, wikisource, etc etc.

And even then critics are saying those numbers are padded.

I don't know, $30m doesn't look that extraordinary now compared to the wikimedia foundation.

But why so expensive? Surely wikileaks has less visits and hence less server pressure than the "mighty" wikipedia?