I strongly suspect I'm being trolled, so I won't waste too much of my time
responding to this, but if you think that Mike's salary is extravagant, what
is your alternative proposal? What's a fair remuneration, in your eyes, for
a legal counsel or CFO? Should they give their services (full time) t
Hi.
The mailing list archives still aren't really searchable, but I have a
question about whether the topic of having a Wikimedia Foundation Ombudsman
has been discussed previously.
To be clear, I'm not talking about a CheckUser/Privacy policy Ombudsman.[1]
I'm talking about someone who would wor
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> On 20/11/2010 23:26, David Gerard wrote:
>> On 21 November 2010 01:27, Noein wrote:
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>>> I hope that you don't feel threatened by novelty. Please don't close
>>> your mind to my ideas just because you've never heard of them. The
>>> Wikipedia
Noein, you keep saying that the community does or does not believe a certain
way. To my knowledge there have been no studies of socioeconomic perspectives
and policies of community members to support your argument. If there are and
I'm mistaken, I'd love to know as that would be very interesting
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
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> On Nov 20, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Noein wrote:
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>> Thank you everybody for explaining your views.
>> Most of the US inhabitants who answered me seem to be living and
>> believing in a hierarchical and competitive world where the highest
>> rank
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On 20/11/2010 23:26, David Gerard wrote:
> On 21 November 2010 01:27, Noein wrote:
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>> I hope that you don't feel threatened by novelty. Please don't close
>> your mind to my ideas just because you've never heard of them. The
>> Wikipedia idea begin
On Nov 20, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Noein wrote:
> Thank you everybody for explaining your views.
> Most of the US inhabitants who answered me seem to be living and
> believing in a hierarchical and competitive world where the highest
> ranked ones- who are praised as gods - take from the lowest ones -
On 21 November 2010 01:27, Noein wrote:
> I hope that you don't feel threatened by novelty. Please don't close
> your mind to my ideas just because you've never heard of them. The
> Wikipedia idea begins by "Imagine".
You seem to have been presenting your disagreements as if you believed
yourse
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On 20/11/2010 09:37, Craig Franklin wrote:
> I don't know any of these people personally, but $128k a year for a legal
> expert of Mike Godwin's stature and experience sounds like a bargain, not an
> unreasonable expense. Given that WMF needs competen
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On 20/11/2010 02:40, Nathan wrote:
> I've never heard of a major charity in the world without at least some paid
> employees.
Hello Nathan.
I hope that you don't feel threatened by novelty. Please don't close
your mind to my ideas just because you've
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> Also, at page 7, three major compensations are described:
> Sue Gardner was compensated 175050$ (equivalent to a monthly 14587$ income)
> Veronique Kessler was compensated 121859$ (equivalent to a monthly
> 10155$ income)
> Mike Godwin was compensated 128139$ (equivalent to a monthly 10678$
> i
I don't know any of these people personally, but $128k a year for a legal
expert of Mike Godwin's stature and experience sounds like a bargain, not an
unreasonable expense. Given that WMF needs competent legal representation,
and given that the WMF is not exactly flush with cash, we should be than
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> On 19/11/2010 21:31, Risker wrote:
>> The last one is for the fiscal year ending June 2009, and was filed on
>> 29
>> April 2010. Link:
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/54/WMF_2008_2009_Form_990.pdf
>>
>> The section on sala
Slightly different reply from Nathan here.
The project and foundation exist to produce and distribute free knowledge.
Every dime that is raised goes to cause "someone to profit". The bandwidth
that's bought, the servers purchased, the desktops and other matters, they
are almost all provided at com
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