[Foundation-l] Back to basics

[Teun Spaans]

All contributions have always been by volunteers.

There has been some discussion about hiring paid contributors, at
least I have seen a questionaire on it somewhere.

I wouldnt support paid translators, the success of volunteer work
encourages us to go on along this path.

teun

On 1/2/07, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> If these are the basics, we have to make it work. When we have money we
> can pay translators to translate into languages where we do not have
> content yet. The notion that we only need the money to have our current
> operational needs serviced does therefore not suffice. If anything, if
> the dream is to have all knowledge in all languages, we need much more
> money.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
>
> Teun Spaans schreef:
> > Indeed this is the old dream: all knowledge in all languages.
> >
> > On 1/2/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 1/2/07, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> With all the commotion, with the departures over the sitenotice, with the
> >>> infighting on various projects (and between various projects), with the bitter
> >>> debates over image policy, I thought it may be a good idea to go back to the
> >>> very root of all the Wikimedia projects. It is a simple statement, but what
> >>> it says--and doesn't say--summarized the very essence of what we are  doing.
> >>>
> >>> "Imagine a world in which every single human being can  freely share in the
> >>> sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
> >>>
> >>>
> >> That statement is "the very root of all the Wikimedia projects"?  When
> >> was that decided?
> >>
> >> Anthony
>
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