I worry that running an auction and a raffle for each - or even some -
editathons would be a lot of work, even if you just focus on the admin work
(I'm not sure what the laws around fundraising auctions and lotteries are
but that could be costly too). The FDC and the community in general are
very much against increasing 'back office costs' and this would increase
them by quite a bit for each editathon.
The incentivising volunteers with money issue would also be very very
difficult, even if the community was ok with it. You'd be paying
volunteers, which in this country would make them staff, which means they'd
need a minimum wage, taxes, and even a pension.
Do we need to incentivise volunteers with cash at all? I'm not sure we
do... there's no shortage of volunteers to run editathons in the UK at
least!
On 19 Mar 2015 00:54, "James Salsman" <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I really like editathons because of the ease with
which they can be
designed to address systemic bias, but I'm not sure having them supported
by the Foundation is optimal from the perspective of time and money both.
Therefore, I propose that someone try some editathons where half the
tickets are auctioned, the other half are raffled, and the Foundation pays
to support them if and only if the auction fails to pay all of the expenses
in advance, and then only the difference. This will allow them to become
more exclusive, but not completely exclusive, and it will incentivize the
organizing wikipedians by allowing them to pay themselves some contingent
portion of the proceeds to be negotiated with the Foundation, and which
could, for example, include an open-ended proportion of auction proceeds.
Please share your thoughts on this proposal. I am also making diagrams for
nine of the twelve steps listed on
http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
and its talk page, where I will soon be proposing a different alternate
funding model to avoid relying on Google Summer of Code. I would also be
most interested in comments on that. Thank you!
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