[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[Dan Rosenthal]

I sincerely doubt that poverty is anyones attraction to wikipedia. 

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Dan Rosenthal 

Sent from my iPhone. My apologies for any brevity. 

On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:30 PM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 06:48, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>> church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
>>> However the main point of mail was to discuss how we're going to raise
>>> funds without being annoying to readers, and I welcome any input from
>>> WMF staff, chapters and volunteers :-)
>> 
>> There's a fairly easy solution: raise less money. It costs about $2
>> million/year to keep the Wikimedia wikis running. That gets raised fairly
>> quickly (it took about five days for the 2010 fundraiser) without many
>> annoying banners. :-)
> 
> I was just thinking the same when I saw this post. Can someone explain
> why we need to raise so much money each year, then hire people to
> raise even more, which means we need more money to pay them?
> 
> The attraction of Wikipedia -- to editors, readers, and donors -- was
> that it was run on a shoestring by a bunch of volunteers, for the
> benefit of other people.
> 
> Sarah
> 
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