[Foundation-l] Benefits of advertising (was Our exponentially increasing costs)

[Dan Grey]

On 27/10/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >The relatively small number of editors who will throw a hissy-fit off
> >won't be missed - new editors arrive all the time, and many eventually
> >crawl back after a public foot-stomping session anyway.
>
>
> A full one-third of that hard core sufficiently dedicated to Wikipedia
> to spend  their own scarce cash going all the way to Wikimania 2005,
> wasn't it? Something about that doesn't sound "insignificant" to me.
> Maybe it does to you.

I think you're under-estimating the total number of editors WP has,
over-estimating who'd leave, and over-valuing their importance.

Where'd you get that figure from anyway?


Dan