Hi,
Le jeudi 02 septembre 2010 à 20:48 +0200, Marcus Buck a écrit :
The Foundation has a budget of 20 million $ this financial year. It plans to spend 8.972 million $ on 91 staff members. That's 98,593.41$ per person.
I wish that were my salary.
So there are resources. They are just planned to be spend for other things.
With that background I do not like the "yeah, nice idea, do it yourself" approach whenever somebody proposes good ideas. We have many great ideas lingering around for years that never get implemented because the number of volunteer developers is limited especially when it comes to projects that could take months to implement. (Datawiki, Central Interwiki, support for internal map services instead of JPGs on Commons, true support for multilingual wikis, working category intersections etc. pp.)
In my opinion the Foundation should employ several developers who don't have any other task than improving Wikimedia. There should be a pool of improvement ideas that can be rated by importance by the Wikimedia users. The paid developers should then be able to pick improvement ideas and implement them preferring projects that are rated important. That way we can ensure a constant flow of innovation for Wikimedia.
Guillaume, you are a Foundation employee, how about presenting my improvement idea in the next meeting with the bosses ;-)
They don't seem to have waited for you to get that idea ;-) See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2010-11_Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual...