On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/10/8 George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com>: >> The WMF is not entirely unique in that regard; many other charities >> are largely volunteer (cf Red Cross). > > According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cross#Activities: > > "Altogether, there are about 97 million people worldwide who serve > with the ICRC, the International Federation, and the National > Societies. And there are about 12,000 total full time staff members." > > That is a ratio of about 8,000 volunteers per staff member. > > The Wikimedia movement has perhaps 40 staff including the WMF and > chapters. At the same ratio, that would give us 320,000 volunteers. I > don't know how many volunteers we have, but I think it is rather more > than that.
Depends how you define "volunteers". How many people were eligible to vote in the last board election? I have no idea the number, but I guess that's a reasonable definition of "volunteers". _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
