On 9 December 2011 11:37, Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Not really. The Foundation has plenty of reserves. > > I believe the figure is that they have 6 months of operating costs in reserve. > > Whether you regard that as "plenty" depends on one's personality I would say.
I think it's a little more than that because they've been underspending, and that's without making any cuts. If the fundraiser were a complete flop (obviously, it hasn't been, and it was never likely that it would be), I'm sure the WMF could keep Wikipedia running for at least a year without any major problems. We need to continue fundraising if we want to keep doing everything we have planned and if we don't want to run dangerously close to having an empty bank account, so the current fundraiser is certainly very important, but the situation is far from desperate. Everything is going as planned, and it would be extremely reckless to have planned to let things get desperate. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
