It's important to know the timeline.
Probably paying someone to be a member of the wikipedian community would produce more *statistical impact* in short time but less *real impact* in longtime.
The problem is to know if the aim is to have numbers or to have a real and lontime impact.
regards
On 23.11.2014 14:59, Anders Wennersten wrote:
I beleive you can find part of what you ask for in the staff assessment https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikime...
The decline in editors are among the steepest of any community *Editors* *Country* *Wikipedia* *1 October 2012* *1 October 2013* *1 October 2014* All editors Deutschland German 14,740 13,484 12,720 Active (5+/mo) 5,290 4,661 4,301
WMDE is continuing its expensive community support work that has not demonstrated past impact and in its current design does not seem likely to generate significant future impact commensurate with costs. WMDE's budget is disproportionally focused on its community support program, which does not have commensurate impact.
Anders