Jimbo wrote:
- There are no current plans for salaries for anyone. In the
future, I do intend that as we grow, we will become a large organization patterned after the National Geographic Society, the International Red Cross, and so on. This will eventually necessitate employees, etc. But for now, any suggestion that I am personally trying to get money from Wikipedia is beyond ludicrous.
Even if Jimbo *were* currently drawing a salary from the Wikimedia Foundation, it wouldn't exactly be a scandal. Frankly, I think the Wikimedia Foundation *should* have paid staff, and as soon as possible. A project as substantial as the Wikipedia can't run on volunteer sacrifices forever.