Tom, you are not comparing next years budget are you with last years activity? Staff paid for last year was one person part time I understood and income was around 500,000 pounds. That seems pretty efficient to me or am I missing something?
regards Roger On 27 February 2011 16:53, Tom Holden <tom.hol...@economics.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Gulp. If people knew WMUK's overhead to activity ratio do you think they'd > still be happy to donate? Or a similar question, do you think a £1 given to > WMUK does more for the interests of UK Wikimedians than £1 direct to > Wikimedia? I note that the bulk of your programme expenditure is going > straight to the WMF anyway, so all that's happening is that the money's > being processed by WMUK's (less efficient, due to lower scale) system, then > going to the WMF (with additional overheads from them). Indeed it seems that > it's only going to their international projects which is arguably further > from the interests of UK Wikimedians than server/code expenditure is. > > I don't know the details of what you're doing at the moment so maybe I'm > completely wrong. But my distinct impression at the moment is that UK > donations would be much more effective if they went straight to the WMF then > groups of users petitioned them for money for UK specific projects. Perhaps > something like WMUK could intermediate, but it could certainly be a much > lighter organisation. > > Admittedly charitable status if it ever arrives will change this story, > providing the gains from gift aid outweigh the relative inefficiencies of > WMUK. Even this isn't totally obvious at the moment, particularly as unclear > whether the things WMUK is spending money on are more useful to the average > user of Wikimedia projects than what the WMF project is spending money on. > > I hope to hear some serious arguments about the chapter's efficiency at the > next AGM. I also hope for the chance for some significant input from the > membership on expenditure priorities. > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Turvey > Sent: 27 February 2011 15:57 > To: WMUK-L > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] job descriptions > > In advance of the board meeting next Tuesday, I've started drafting up some > job descriptions on the wiki at > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Job_Descriptions for the new members of staff > that we are recruiting. > > Please add your contributions on the main and talk page to develop this. > > Many thanks, > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers)
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