hi,
it is an interesting and worthwhile discussion. I do not think that decentralized funding is very good against corruption. It does have a number of advantages, but it is not one of them. Actually, I think that the risks of corruption increase with the number of entities and people able to commit it, and thus 100+ organizations are likely to lead to more cases of corruption than 1 (also, higher budgets often require tighter procedures, scrutiny, reporting, and standards, which all decrease the risk of corruption, while not necessarily increasing efficiency though).
best,
Dariusz Jemielniak, "pundit"
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Balázs Viczián <balazs.viczian@wikimedia.hu
wrote:
Imo having a centralized funding model is very good against corruption (we had a couple of cases already and unfortunately we will some in the future)
As a side comment, it would be nice if we could learn the total donations/country figures ( for example: Hungary 2013: $12,345.67) If this info is already public then sorry, I was unable to locate it myself.
Balazs
2014-04-10 16:20 GMT+02:00 mathias.damour@laposte.net:
Hi,
Message du 10/04/14 15:28 De : "Anders Wennersten" A : wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Copie à : Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational
structure
(...) And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we will be stronger as a totality if we abide to the same base guidelines So I question your urge and need to decentralize.
For
am as a contributer the most important part is that I know my inputs is securely stored and will not be misused by actors like google or plain advertising. And for this reason I believe in a centralized structure as about today (for now) Anders
I don't tink that Ting Chen is disputing that the WMF should keep the
core
work. Yet the core work may mean about 20% of the movement resources instead of 90%...
Mathias [[User:Astirmays]]
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