Bah; dropped a digit when reading the y-axis. My bad. My concerns about
straight extrapolation for this model remain, however.
On 2 January 2015 at 11:31, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
3 billion being...above the upper bound of the extrapolation you've made?
Uh-huh.
Extrapolation
On 2 January 2015 at 15:08, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Oliver Keyes wrote:
... Extrapolation is not a particularly useful method to use for
the budget, because it assumes endless exponential growth.
I agree. Formal budgeting usually shouldn't extend further than three
to
I have one or two ideas about what to do with 3 billion US Dollar. It would
be a huge step towards some of my stretch goals for the movement.
On Fri Jan 02 2015 at 12:08:43 PM James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Oliver Keyes wrote:
... Extrapolation is not a particularly useful method to
Hoi,
It is known that education is a great way to eradicate poverty. We know
that Wikipedia brings information and is educational. When the effect of
your 3 billion dollar brings education and effectively helps to eradicate
poverty it is well worth it.
No irony intended.
Thanks,
GerardM
On
Oliver Keyes wrote:
... Extrapolation is not a particularly useful method to use for
the budget, because it assumes endless exponential growth.
I agree. Formal budgeting usually shouldn't extend further than three
to five years in the nonprofit sector (long-term budgeting is
unavoidable in
Dear all,
Happy new year.
I'm very sorry and with all due respect, I'm guessing this is getting a bit
off-topic. Let me kindly remind that this is the Wiki-research mailing list.
Thanks and have a wonderful year ahead!
.Taha
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
In ten years time, I predict the Foundation will raise $3 billion:
http://i.imgur.com/hdoAIan.jpg
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Denny Vrandečić, 02/01/2015 21:17:
I have one or two ideas about what to do with 3 billion US Dollar. It
would be a huge step towards some of my stretch goals for the movement.
:) 3 billions are not that much money, for instance they're only enough
to pay 6 months of operating costs of a poor
... here are a couple illustrations of some reasons I
believe a ten year extrapolation of Foundation fundraising
is completely reasonable: http://imgur.com/a/mV72T
Words tend to be more useful than contextless images.
I meant that the very sharply declining cost of solar (and wind)
energy,
On 2 January 2015 at 18:14, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
... This is not a discussion for research-l
On the contrary, please see e.g.
http://www.wikisym.org/os2014-files/proceedings/p609.pdf
this Foundation-sponsored IEG effort can serve as a confirmatory
replication of that
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