[Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

[phoebe ayers]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's good to see so much interest in this thread.
>
> The purpose of transparency is not feedback.  It is valuable in its own
> right.
> It reduces surprise and supports planning discussions elsewhere in the
> movement.
>

I do agree with this. (Though transparency in this area might come more
naturally if it was easier to work on a spreadsheet in a wiki!)

But, this thread was started with the specific idea of increasing community
input into the budgeting process, so the question I was trying to answer
is: how can that be made most effective?

-- phoebe


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