[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[Thomas Dalton]

On 7 March 2011 11:44, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I think this articulates the issue very well.

Except that what I've actually written is that the WMF must, under no
circumstances, do any other work unless they do an equal amount of
harm by fundraising for it. That's not exactly what I meant!

"Balanced by" in the last sentence should be "in balance with"!