Hi James,

Although I have a variety of frustrations with WMF Community Resources and for COI reasons I would like to have ways to fund Wikimedia projects with minimal involvement or approvals from WMF, I agree with Danny that your proposal as written is likely outside of the scope for the Community Wishlist Survey and that your proposal would benefit from clarification. I support Danny's decision, but I thank you for thinking about these topics. I hope to see more discussion of fundraising and distribution of resources in the weeks and months ahead, including in the context of the WMF strategy process.

Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 11:02 PM James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:

I would like to appeal

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019%...

on the grounds that adding a different behavior to existing behavior in order to try to measure which is better is an inherent part of every technical and documentation approval. In other words, trying something new isn't the same as irrevocable change unless it is incontrovertible that the change is an obvious improvement, the extent of which should be measured.

Or to put it another way, the Foundation should build manual-only fundraising bots and give access to them in addition to ordinary grants. I hope you agree, but if you don't, that's okay too.

Thank you for reading this appeal. Whether this project succeeds or otherwise, I wish you the best.

Regards, Jim

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