Interesting So when are you going to adopt the wiki model, and start to encourage morefree discussions and free activities over the institutional choices?
On 19 April 2013 12:11, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Delphine Ménard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > Over the years I have always found extremely interesting how Wikimedia > > in general is extremely reticent to "paying" people to "do" things. It > > makes sense in a volunteer culture, even more sense in *our* volunteer > > culture since the Wikimedia organisations would not exist were it not > > for the Wikimedia projects and those in turn would not exist were it > > not for the countless volunteer hours that are put in by the > > communites. But is there really anything tangible we can invest in > > (apart from the technical costs to run the servers and improve the > > software)? > > Yes. We can invest in freeing closed-license knowledge, and > closed-source software, and private databases that are essential to > our work. > > We can invest in [timeshares of] videoconferencing hardware at > hundreds of centers around the world so that most volunteers have > close to a F2F connection with others without paying the fuel, time, > and pollution costs of flying around the world. > > We can invest in providing access to closed repositories of knowledge > (for those repositories so large that we can't directly buy out their > copyright) for our active contributors. > > We can invest in public contests, awards, and other recognition that > both elevate the best work we have and that reach out to content that > we admire and would like to make more available to the world through > our projects. > > > We don't buy stuff that we can sell, we don't need raw > > materials, we don't produce anything that you put in a box and deliver > > at someone's door. > > There is still a huge demand for knowledge packaged in formats that > can be put in a box and delivered to someone's door. We could either > invest in this directly (through production, presentation and > shipping) or indirectly (through building and supporting partners who > do these things). > > > Apart from this I fully support the idea of having Wikimedia > > organisations measure their administrative costs against a common > > scale, although of course we'll have to take into consideration local > > specificities where applicable. > > +1 > > SJ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton [email protected] +55 11 979 718 884 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
