[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[Thomas Dalton]

On 6 March 2011 10:14, Pavel Richter <pavel.richter at wikimedia.de> wrote:
> But who says that the sole purpose of the WMF is to keep Wikimedia wikis
> running?

I don't think many people would say that's the sole purpose of the
WMF, but I think most would agree that it is the primary purpose. The
amount of other work the WMF does in addition to that should be
balanced by the harm caused by the extra fundraising required.