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

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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

That does sound like quite a big expansion, actually. I think I may
have seen a precursor to that sort of presentation when Sue Gardner
attended a London meetup earlier in the year, which included those
involved in Wikimedia UK. It will be interesting to see how things
develop.

Carcharoth