[Wikipedia-l] Propects for future growth

Adam Williamson aw280 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Oct 2 12:42:52 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 18:14, Poor, Edmund W wrote:

> Suppose each of us kicks in, say $10 a month -- or even $50 a month -- towards staff salaries. 
>(It must be clearly settled beforehand what extra privileges subscribers would get: my vote would 
>be for NONE WHATSOEVER.) For example, if twenty of us give $50 a month and fifty of us give $20 
>a month, and maybe a hundred more give $10 a month, that would be around $3,000 a month. If Jimbo 
>could match that (not that he should, he's already done and is doing plenty) -- we would have 
>$48,000 a year for staff.

Hmm...

3000x12 = 36000

(If matched by Jimbo)

3000x2x12 = 72000

Am I missing something, or should Ed be restrained from editing the
maths pages? =)
-- 
adamw




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