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.
Hi!
On Mon, 3 May 2004 21:55:17 -0500, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
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.
While I do agree that eventually paid staff should and will come, drawing from the donations now, which, as far as I know, were made mostly or exclusively for hardware upgrades, would be not a good idea at all. Not only would feel many of the donors feel duped (and it would prevent many people from making donations in the future as well), there would most likely also be legal problems arising from that.
So if there are paid employees ever for the foundation, that needs a legal framework first. Which I would not mind.
Alex