[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[Mike Godwin]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  Andrew Garrett writes:
>>
>> We might be growing, but I don't think anybody in the industry would
>>
>>> hesitate to say that we're still "small" and "running on a shoestring
>>> budget". The websites that we compete with run budgets in the hundreds
>>> of millions to billions of dollars.
>>>
>>>
>> This point can't be overstressed. Compared to organizations running the
>> other nine of the top ten websites, Wikimedia Foundation is miniscule,
>>
>
> Don't forget we have many thousands of volunteers. We are not like those
> other websites at all and don't think those are good comparisons.
>

I don't think anyone's forgotten the volunteers. But Andrew's remark
referred specifically to the "shoestring budget."  In that sense, the
Wikimedia Foundation is miniscule, compared to organizations running the
other top ten websites.


--Mike