(personal capacity, for a moment) I make this the...third or fourth? currently active thread on this mailing list that has been turned into "make more money, pay more money and invest it in credit unions".
James, I don't think there's anything you've said here that you haven't said 2, 3, 5 or 20 times before. Regardless of if you're right or wrong - and I'm not making a judgment call on that, because things like financial investments are not in my skillset or domain knowledge - your suggestions are not being put into practise. I've seen no sign from the replies that anyone is planning on actively pursuing your (many) suggestions, for a variety of reasons. At this point the best thing to do is probably to drop the stick. On 28 December 2012 17:13, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > > people are not contributing in the English language markets this > > year as opposed to last > > What is the evidence for that? > > > because of trends when the English Wikipedia's popularity has not > > significantly changed. > > English projects per http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/pageviews > > November 2010: 7.6 billion > November 2011: 8.3 billion or +9% > November 2012: 9.6 billion or +15% > > Along with my questions about lowered fundraising expectations which > Zack specifically asked to re-post to this list, I would also like > answers to my earlier questions about why multivariate testing can't > be used to measure donations, because all of the multivariate tests > published so far were used to measure donations. There is no doubt in > my mind from the distribution of message performance that if we tested > the remaining volunteer-submitted appeals from 2009-10, we could do > twice as well per day as we did at the beginning of this month, and > not just during these last days of the year when we are probably > sacrificing $7 million to slashed growth rates, jettisoned Fellowships > without community consultation, and salaries pegged well below that of > other Bay Area technology employers. > > As for the reserve fund investment, I would like to point out that > investment in securities which are expected to return less than > inflation are a guaranteed risk that the purchasing power of donors' > funds will diminish before they are spent. As far as I can tell from > messages off list at Garfield's request, all reserve investments were > expected to perform below the rate of inflation when they were > purchased. > > Sincerely, > James Salsman > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l