[Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

[David Gerard]

On 1 March 2011 20:22, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> The part where adding this person leads to better content? Wikimedia's
> mission is to educate the world with free content. I'm not sure how a
> Propaganda Minister really furthers that goal. There is a very finite amount
> of resources for staff hires; I just don't see how this passes any type of
> reasonable cost/benefit analysis.
> If it's the outside world's perception of Wikimedia that is the underlying
> concern, I think hiring someone whose job description includes "make
> something incredibly beautiful every month" might be more detrimental to
> Wikimedia's image and mission than anything else. There are a lot of people
> who would be (more) willing to donate to Wikimedia if they didn't feel their
> donations would be spent like this, in my view.


You appear to be generalising from your personal preferences to the
world here. This is a common fallacy and a really bad idea in general.


- d.