On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM, 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. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Don't you see it? It's a position needed to ensure and improve the cash flow. Which in turn is needed to support a continuosly increasing spendings and an increasingly large staff. This position is key for the strategic sustaining of the wikimedia movement (and don't you dare to speak bad of that). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
