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_Annua…
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Guillaume Paumier