Tom, you are not comparing next years budget are you with last years
activity? Staff paid for last year was one person part time I understood and
income was around 500,000 pounds. That seems pretty efficient to me or am I
missing something?
regards
Roger
On 27 February 2011 16:53, Tom Holden <tom.holden(a)economics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
Gulp. If people knew WMUK's overhead to activity
ratio do you think they'd
still be happy to donate? Or a similar question, do you think a £1 given to
WMUK does more for the interests of UK Wikimedians than £1 direct to
Wikimedia? I note that the bulk of your programme expenditure is going
straight to the WMF anyway, so all that's happening is that the money's
being processed by WMUK's (less efficient, due to lower scale) system, then
going to the WMF (with additional overheads from them). Indeed it seems that
it's only going to their international projects which is arguably further
from the interests of UK Wikimedians than server/code expenditure is.
I don't know the details of what you're doing at the moment so maybe I'm
completely wrong. But my distinct impression at the moment is that UK
donations would be much more effective if they went straight to the WMF then
groups of users petitioned them for money for UK specific projects. Perhaps
something like WMUK could intermediate, but it could certainly be a much
lighter organisation.
Admittedly charitable status if it ever arrives will change this story,
providing the gains from gift aid outweigh the relative inefficiencies of
WMUK. Even this isn't totally obvious at the moment, particularly as unclear
whether the things WMUK is spending money on are more useful to the average
user of Wikimedia projects than what the WMF project is spending money on.
I hope to hear some serious arguments about the chapter's efficiency at the
next AGM. I also hope for the chance for some significant input from the
membership on expenditure priorities.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Turvey
Sent: 27 February 2011 15:57
To: WMUK-L
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] job descriptions
In advance of the board meeting next Tuesday, I've started drafting up some
job descriptions on the wiki at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Job_Descriptions for the new members of staff
that we are recruiting.
Please add your contributions on the main and talk page to develop this.
Many thanks,
Andrew
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