On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 00:51, David Levy <lifeisunf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Milos Rancic wrote: > >> Note that more than 50% of money comes from US and that it could be >> easily assumed that at least 10% of ~$10M given by US citizens and >> corporations want to have a kind of "family friendly" Wikipedia. Thus, >> $1M/year is fair price for creating something which would please them. > > Assuming that the "10%" figure is accurate, it has no bearing on the > feature's relative importance. > > The same people/corporations might care more about numerous other > potential uses of the money (including different unimplemented > features), so your mathematical equation is invalid. > > And I reject the premise that it's reasonable to base fund allocations > on popular opinion, with donors' views carrying extra (all?) weight. > Our mission is to disseminate information to the world, not to > "please" donors by catering to their preferences.
In principle yes, but Board wants to please or "please" them. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
