I sincerely doubt that poverty is anyones attraction to wikipedia. -- Dan Rosenthal
Sent from my iPhone. My apologies for any brevity. On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:30 PM, SlimVirgin <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 06:48, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >> church.of.emacs.ml wrote: >>> However the main point of mail was to discuss how we're going to raise >>> funds without being annoying to readers, and I welcome any input from >>> WMF staff, chapters and volunteers :-) >> >> There's a fairly easy solution: raise less money. It costs about $2 >> million/year to keep the Wikimedia wikis running. That gets raised fairly >> quickly (it took about five days for the 2010 fundraiser) without many >> annoying banners. :-) > > I was just thinking the same when I saw this post. Can someone explain > why we need to raise so much money each year, then hire people to > raise even more, which means we need more money to pay them? > > The attraction of Wikipedia -- to editors, readers, and donors -- was > that it was run on a shoestring by a bunch of volunteers, for the > benefit of other people. > > Sarah > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
