[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
As far as I am concerned, there are so many things we could do if we had the
capacity that would still only be about enabling our communities to write
their Wikipedia in their language. There are development projects that will
not benefit all our projects.

We are still at a stage where there is a hard line between those who benefit
from an excellent resource written to exacting standards and those who are
happy when they are able to find something in their language on the Internet
in the first place.

As long as Dutch is in the top 15 of most visited Wikipedias we are not
achieving what our motto says we aim for.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On 5 March 2011 22:15, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Sebastian Moleski wrote:
> > I would venture that growth, or rather size, is defined by what the
> > Foundation wants to accomplish and what resources are needed for that.
> Would
> > it be inherently wrong if, for example, WMF were an organization with a
> > headcount of 10,000 and a budget of a billion dollars, if that's what it
> > takes to accomplish the mission, e.g. allow every human to freely share
> in
> > the sum of all knowledge?
>
> "Defined by what the Foundation wants to accomplish"? I think you've
> highlighted the problem pretty well, right there.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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