[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Delirium]

Robert Rohde wrote:
> Even within the realm of simply running the site, there is a big difference
> between running Wikimedia with a couple paid developers and a bunch of
> volunteers, and really having a professional development staff.  How many
> software features have been promised (e.g. stable versions, universal login,
> etc.) that have been delayed for a very long time for lack of resources,
> especially developer time?  Do you want just enough money to run the site,
> or do you want enough money to grow and build Mediawiki's feature set, etc.?


Is that what's happening, though? According to the staff list [1], 
despite the general staff expansion, no new technical staff has been 
added since 2006: We're still at 2 full-time and 2 part-time/contract 
staff, out of 13 full-time and 15 total paid staff members. So the money 
does seem to be being used for staff expansion, but not staff who are 
going to implement single-login or add MediaWiki features.

-Mark

[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_staff