Thanks for the reply, Erik. To clarify my figures, I included
Wikimania travel in the travel number, and staff development in the
staffing costs. In any case, my argument wasn't that Wikimedia was
misspending its funds. I don't think that's true. I'm sure there are
perfectly reasonable explanations
Hi,
thanks for raising up the female donor issue. Based on the outcome of
our survey we think that getting more female donors is a critical point
for the success of Wikimedia fundraising in the future (of course this
means only if we can raise the ratio of female donors while not lowering
the male
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nathan wrote:
Hey Nathan,
a bit OT from the thread title, but just clarifying a couple of points:
> * The WMF spends over $2 million on fundraising alone
In FY 2010-11, WMF raised $23M in contributions, not counting $
restricted to future time periods. In the s
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:59 PM, rupert THURNER
wrote:
> fyi, in switzerland there are 2 mio readers and below 1 donors ... this
> means more than 99% are not giving money.
Which is, in my opinion, fine. The Foundation receives a pretty large
amount of donated money, as non-profit organizati
fyi, in switzerland there are 2 mio readers and below 1 donors ... this
means more than 99% are not giving money.
On Nov 29, 2011 11:21 PM, "emijrp" wrote:
> 2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton
>
> > On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp wrote:
> > > Dear all;
> > >
> > > We have heard many times that mos
On 29 November 2011 22:19, emijrp wrote:
> 2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton
>
>> On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp wrote:
>> > Dear all;
>> >
>> > We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you
>> heard
>> > about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
>
2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton
> On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp wrote:
> > Dear all;
> >
> > We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you
> heard
> > about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
> > German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People ha
On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp wrote:
> Dear all;
>
> We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you heard
> about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
> German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia is a
> sexist plac
Dear all;
We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you heard
about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia is a
sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neit
