The question of you is important. The Wikimedia Foundation hired a lot of people in the
last years and I do not see so big change in the output. It is a question that is from my
point of view relevant for different areas at the Wikimedia Foundation. I dont support a
too big focus on efficiency that needs a lot of metrics to measure and to create these
metrics needs then a lot of staff. What is needed and what not is not easy to measure.
With increasing available resources the staff will probably increase. This is an usual
behaviour of humans that they try to use resources if available and do not only allocate
them for the future or say no and try to reduce the needed resources if not neccessary.
From my point of view the Wikimedia Foundation should reduce the Fundraising acitivities
and try to reduce in the next years the yearly expenses or pay at least attention that
they do not increase further. The salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are currently from
my point of view in relation to Germany based NGOs high. I think interesting documents to
get an overview about the work of the Wikimedia Foundation are the quaterly tuning
sessions.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_tuning_ses…
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