On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, aude <aude.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Andrew Garrett writes: >> >> We might be growing, but I don't think anybody in the industry would >> >>> hesitate to say that we're still "small" and "running on a shoestring >>> budget". The websites that we compete with run budgets in the hundreds >>> of millions to billions of dollars. >>> >>> >> This point can't be overstressed. Compared to organizations running the >> other nine of the top ten websites, Wikimedia Foundation is miniscule, >> > > Don't forget we have many thousands of volunteers. We are not like those > other websites at all and don't think those are good comparisons. >
I don't think anyone's forgotten the volunteers. But Andrew's remark referred specifically to the "shoestring budget." In that sense, the Wikimedia Foundation is miniscule, compared to organizations running the other top ten websites. --Mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
