On 1 March 2011 20:22, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > The part where adding this person leads to better content? Wikimedia's > mission is to educate the world with free content. I'm not sure how a > Propaganda Minister really furthers that goal. There is a very finite amount > of resources for staff hires; I just don't see how this passes any type of > reasonable cost/benefit analysis. > If it's the outside world's perception of Wikimedia that is the underlying > concern, I think hiring someone whose job description includes "make > something incredibly beautiful every month" might be more detrimental to > Wikimedia's image and mission than anything else. There are a lot of people > who would be (more) willing to donate to Wikimedia if they didn't feel their > donations would be spent like this, in my view.
You appear to be generalising from your personal preferences to the world here. This is a common fallacy and a really bad idea in general. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
