[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
So far the balance has been seriously wrong. Because of the underinvestment
many of our Wikipedias are not doing as well as they should. There are for
instance technical solutions to give many of the Indian language Wikipedias
the traffic back they lost.

As this is not considered as a problem/priority, as we do not have
developers dealing with this we are seriously underachieving.

The notion that we are raising more funds then we need is therefore
obviously flawed.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7 March 2011 13:11, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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"!
>
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