[Wikimedia-l] Small joy of the day: Txikipedia

Reminded today of how beautifully this kids encyclopedia has worked out: Txikipedia:Azala (main page), Txikipedia:Gengis_Khan More languages should try that. a) simple skin hack, b) loving

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Form 990 clarification request (for the attention of WMF accounts staff)

On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 at 16:33, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Dan, > > I am happy to give you the TL;DR version: > > As best I can make out, the WMF's average salary cost per employee is now > about $200,000. > > More could be said, of course: > > – The WMF had already exceeded its revenue goals for the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: what do we do with all this opportunity?

Hi SJ, Re " Even as the world moves on to new frontiers and companies race to enclose derivatives of our work." Not an easy task when work is licenced Share Alike and By Attribution. But yes it is a real threat, and should be one that both the WMF and the volunteer community can agree to combat.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Form 990 clarification request (for the attention of WMF accounts staff)

It doesn't matter where the money goes, everyone benefits and there was a period where the WMF was doing a lot of work in India without fundraising there. Its all relative Australia was contributing over 2m per year(highest per capita of anywhere at the time) yet there was nothing being spent in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: what do we do with all this opportunity?

Thanks Samuel and James for the constructive approach in your messages. I know that I have said this before, but there's a huge problem with accountability here. We have money to become a great platform and we have staff to do it, but there's no way to go forward, and that problem is seen