BTW, a lot of the organizing work for Wiki Loves
Monuments in the US
was
done by three volunteer Wikimedians who also happen to be WMF
employees
(Kaldari, Sarah and Matthew), but did this in their spare time.
Not trying to underestimate their contribution, I am afraid this is
better worded as "some fair share of the organizing work..." . For
example, User:Thundersnow spent, as I can see, all of their free time in
September (essentially, all of their time except for sleep) working
here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_His…
He was complimented on the NRHP project, but, as I could see, nowhere
else.
There were more users like Thundersnow.
Cheers
Yaroslav