On 26 August 2012 16:00, Osmar Valdebenito osmar@wikimediachile.cl wrote:
WM-UK spending £40,000 is unfair for other future bids
I'm not sure "fairness" should be the goal here. We want to further our movement's goals the best way we can. If WMUK is able to do that better than other chapters for some reason, then it shouldn't be prevented from doing so just because it isn't fair. The reason I object to spending £40k on a bid is simply that it isn't worth the money. Spending that money will not further our goals better than the numerous other things we could do with £40k. There is also the fact that, if it worth it for WMUK to spend that kind of money on a bid, then it is also worth it for other bids to spend the same kind of money, so we end up with hundreds of thousands of pounds going on bids, most of which fail - that definitely isn't worth the money.