On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 00:51, David Levy lifeisunfair@gmail.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
Note that more than 50% of money comes from US and that it could be easily assumed that at least 10% of ~$10M given by US citizens and corporations want to have a kind of "family friendly" Wikipedia. Thus, $1M/year is fair price for creating something which would please them.
Assuming that the "10%" figure is accurate, it has no bearing on the feature's relative importance.
The same people/corporations might care more about numerous other potential uses of the money (including different unimplemented features), so your mathematical equation is invalid.
And I reject the premise that it's reasonable to base fund allocations on popular opinion, with donors' views carrying extra (all?) weight. Our mission is to disseminate information to the world, not to "please" donors by catering to their preferences.
In principle yes, but Board wants to please or "please" them.