[Wikimedia-l] Question: How much does administration in Chapters cost the Wikimedia movement?

[Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton]

Interesting

So when are you going to adopt the wiki model, and start to encourage morefree
discussions and free activities over the institutional choices?


On 19 April 2013 12:11, Samuel Klein <meta.sj em gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Delphine Ménard <notafishz em gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
>
> > Over the years I have always found extremely interesting how Wikimedia
> > in general is extremely reticent to "paying" people to "do" things. It
> > makes sense in a volunteer culture, even more sense in *our* volunteer
> > culture since the Wikimedia organisations would not exist were it not
> > for the Wikimedia projects and those in turn would not exist were it
> > not for the countless volunteer hours that are put in by the
> > communites. But is there really anything tangible we can invest in
> > (apart from the technical costs to run the servers and improve the
> > software)?
>
> Yes.  We can invest in freeing closed-license knowledge, and
> closed-source software, and private databases that are essential to
> our work.
>
> We can invest in [timeshares of] videoconferencing hardware at
> hundreds of centers around the world so that most volunteers have
> close to a F2F connection with others without paying the fuel, time,
> and pollution costs of flying around the world.
>
> We can invest in providing access to closed repositories of knowledge
> (for those repositories so large that we can't directly buy out their
> copyright) for our active contributors.
>
> We can invest in public contests, awards, and other recognition that
> both elevate the best work we have and that reach out to content that
> we admire and would like to make more available to the world through
> our projects.
>
> > We don't buy stuff that we can sell, we don't need raw
> > materials, we don't produce anything that you put in a box and deliver
> > at someone's door.
>
> There is still a huge demand for knowledge packaged in formats that
> can be put in a box and delivered to someone's door.   We could either
> invest in this directly (through production, presentation and
> shipping) or indirectly (through building and supporting partners who
> do these things).
>
> > Apart from this I fully support the idea of having Wikimedia
> > organisations measure their administrative costs against a common
> > scale, although of course we'll have to take into consideration local
> > specificities where applicable.
>
> +1
>
> SJ
>
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