Sorry for not being explicit; the connection is that protection of copyleft
would be inconvenient to major endowment donors such as Google and Amazon.
WikiData is a Wikimedia project that converts copylefted content into (what
Wikimedia asserts to be) copyright-free content.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021
Hi,
(Sending this as a personal opinion, albeit one informed by my work on
revenue strategy in the past few years.)
Discussions about fundraising in the Wikimedia movement often involve the
same arguments over time. My theory, after observing and participating in
those discussions for 15 years,
Hoi,
As you present your numbers in isolation, you can make up any argument and
not address any of the points made in the original post and subsequent
replies. When you mention salaries, you do not compare them to the common
practices for remuneration and only when you do, can you argue that it is
Comparing the Wikimedia Foundation's annual revenue targets for the past
five financial years against actual revenue, I find that the Wikimedia
Foundation exceeded its revenue target (and also its actual expenditure) by
an average of $30 million per year.
The figures (all excluding Endowment
False urgency in fundraising has been a problem for years, including the
years before the fiscal years I'm referring to.
Expenditure on infrastructure and software (both essential and
non-essential) development hasn't been the main inbalance item for many
many years.
There's nothing wrong with
Hoi,
You are wrong. First, fundraising and budgeting is aimed at the future,
they aim to enable the needs defined in the present. When you refer to an
audit, particularly one that is two years in the past, it reminds me of
obligatory messaging for investment products in the Netherlands: "results
* do fundraisers require a compelling message? *could be reworded into *do
fundraisers need to lie?*
Once again, you say that "Wikidata is about to crash", "we don't properly
deliver our contents everywhere", but according to FY2019-2020 audit report
Hoi,
Please read carefully. I do point out that there is an existential threat
to "Wikipedia", I do point out that we need fundraising to stay
independent.
I do point out that the fundraising message is on point.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sat, 25 Sept 2021 at 09:12, Vi to wrote:
> Once again
Once again this is not what the fundraising messages point out.
This is just a quite shareable list of top priorities in your opinion.
Vito
Il giorno sab 25 set 2021 alle ore 09:00 Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Hoi,
> I presented two existential threats to our
Hoi,
I presented two existential threats to our ecosystem. We have a
technical debt in the legacy software we use for our functionality. The
engine for Wikidata is not likely to survive, it desperately needs
replacement. When the question is: are we in dire straights, yes we are. Is
this about
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