On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote: Yes, sending out messages to village pumps is an option that we considered as well (using Global Message Delivery). However, based on my experience there is no doubt that this would have been considerably less effective. There is a lot of active users who don't frequent village pumps (or mailing lists) at all. To consider a concrete example we may recall from the FDC's own history, the call for volunteers that led to the formation of the initial committee was first announced via a global message to village pumps in July 2012, and then promoted with a CentralNotice banner (to logged-in users) in August. In July it received 766 pageviews, in August it was 11,123. (http://stats.grok.se/meta.m/201208/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Call_for_V… ) Of course it is to some degree a political decision how much normal editors should be integrated into the decisionmaking process about this donation money, and as such not mine to make. I do think that for proposals that plan to spend money on supporting the local editing community in their work, members of that community have special expertise when it comes to assessing on how effective the planned measures might be. -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB