[WikiEN-l] "Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Expansion"

[Gwern Branwen]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/wikipedia-foundation-plans-expansion/
> The foundation that runs the Wikipedia Web site plans to add 44 employees in the next year — roughly doubling the size of its current professional staff — and to raise $20 million to support a much-enhanced vision for the volunteer-created encyclopedia that nearly anyone can edit.

> The announcement of the expansion was made by the Wikimedia Foundation’s executive director, Sue Gardner, at the start of the sixth annual Wikimania conference, held this year in Poland. The conference brings together editors, administrators and the professional staff to discuss trends and ideas for Wikipedia and other collaborative Internet projects.

> By hiring more employees and raising more money, the foundation hopes to nearly double the number of unique visitors to the site by 2015, to 680 million a month, Ms. Gardner told an audience of a few hundred who had assembled in the Polish Baltic Philharmonic hall, on an island across from Gdansk’s historic old city. The foundation plans to focus on expanding generally in Africa, Central and Latin America, and Asia, and specifically setting up offices in Brazil and India, she said.

Well, I suppose as long as the technical side doesn't suffer
starvation and they actually can raise that much...

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gwern