Samuel Klein <meta.sj@...> writes:
I think a better formulation of the question might be: "do we have a list of non-editing activities, and do we have a count of the number of people who do them regularly?"
To which the answer is partially-yes, and mostly-no.
Yes: There is a mindmap of activities and roles that was created and is fairly comprehensive.
No: Some of those activities have related logs (lists of users by technical flag) or categories (list of users who have categorized their userpage), or pages (lists of OTRS or press contacts, lists of members or a project or organization). But I've never seen a division of these into active v. passive (committee work v. group membership), or a total count.
SJ
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Johan Jönsson <brevlistor <at>
gmail.com> wrote:
2014-06-22 13:59 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki <at> gmail.com>:
Wikimedia volunteers are self-organised, why would there be a list?
Because we love making lists.
That being said, Richard list wiki-specific positions like "ArbCom", which I suppose would mean that "volunteers for the Wikimedia Foundation" should be understood in a broad sense, and if so, the answer is definitely no.
Even when some lists exists, like the e.g. the press room list Benjamin linked, they're in no way complete. For example, the press contact for Wikimedia Sweden (which, of course, is technically not a volunteer position for Wikimedia Foundation, since the chapters are independent and sometimes do stuff that's not related to the Wikimedia movement) is listed, but Swedish-language Wikipedia has a volunteer press contact of its own, who isn't.
//Johan Jönsson
(emailing thru Gmane since I only track this thru RSS so my apologies if it comes out funky; I dislike the enormous email volume these lists generate)
I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned that Part I, question 6 of the Form 990 which asks for total volunteers. For year 2011, 85,000 was the number year 2010 has 100,000. See http://990finder.foundationcenter.org/990results.aspx?990_type=&fn=wikim...
In addition, it is typical for directors and officers liability policies to ask for an estimate of the number of volunteers (no idea if WMF's insurer does, but when I last shopped for nonprofit D&O it was a pretty standard question). While I doubt the IRS cares much about the accuracy of this particular number, the D&O insurer can use a bad estimate as an excuse to void coverage due to material misrepresentation when a claim is filed.
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