http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/wikipedia-foundation-plans-expansion/ > The foundation that runs the Wikipedia Web site plans to add 44 employees in > the next year — roughly doubling the size of its current professional staff — > and to raise $20 million to support a much-enhanced vision for the > volunteer-created encyclopedia that nearly anyone can edit.
> The announcement of the expansion was made by the Wikimedia Foundation’s > executive director, Sue Gardner, at the start of the sixth annual Wikimania > conference, held this year in Poland. The conference brings together editors, > administrators and the professional staff to discuss trends and ideas for > Wikipedia and other collaborative Internet projects. > By hiring more employees and raising more money, the foundation hopes to > nearly double the number of unique visitors to the site by 2015, to 680 > million a month, Ms. Gardner told an audience of a few hundred who had > assembled in the Polish Baltic Philharmonic hall, on an island across from > Gdansk’s historic old city. The foundation plans to focus on expanding > generally in Africa, Central and Latin America, and Asia, and specifically > setting up offices in Brazil and India, she said. Well, I suppose as long as the technical side doesn't suffer starvation and they actually can raise that much... -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
