ImperfectlyInformed, 26/06/2014 02:14:
I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned that Part I, question 6 of the
Form 990 which asks for total volunteers. For year 2011, 85,000 was the
number year 2010 has 100,000.
That's just the number of editors taken from WikiStats, as I believe the
Samuel Klein meta.sj@... writes:
I think a better formulation of the question might be: do we have a
list of non-editing activities, and do we have a count of the number
of people who do them regularly?
To which the answer is partially-yes, and mostly-no.
Yes: There is a mindmap of
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] How many volunteers (not editors) does the movement
have
Hi Richard,
Just wondering: why are editors not volunteers?
best,
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Wikimedia volunteers are self-organised, why would there be a list?
Richard Ames, 22/06/2014 13:12:
volunteer positions which work for
I smell a contradiction.
Nemo
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There's no master list that I know of, but there are lists of each of those
things:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators#List
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Accounts
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room#Official_chapters
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
Many of the people on those lists are not volunteers.
How's your definition of volunteers?
Alice.
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Alice Wiegand me.ly...@gmail.com wrote:
How's your definition of volunteers?
In this case, I just mean that some of the people on those lists are paid
employees of the WMF or a chapter, so I can't guarantee that everyone on a
list of volunteers is acting in a
2014-06-22 13:59 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com:
Wikimedia volunteers are self-organised, why would there be a list?
Because we love making lists.
That being said, Richard list wiki-specific positions like ArbCom, which
I suppose would mean that volunteers for the Wikimedia
I think a better formulation of the question might be: do we have a
list of non-editing activities, and do we have a count of the number
of people who do them regularly?
To which the answer is partially-yes, and mostly-no.
Yes: There is a mindmap of activities and roles that was created and
is
In that case, 'many people are not volunteers' is probably an overstatement
:) At least for AffCom, FDC, OTRS are almost fully employees. The list of
chapter people is much longer (boards alone: ~40 * 6 est. average = 240
people, all volunteers) than the list of press contacts. In Wiki Loves
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