> My view is that the Foundation was suddenly (but not without warning) > made legally responsible for its own content after Trump made hosting > providers responsible for facilitating online prostitution > advertising, at pretty much the same time the GDPR went in to effect.
I do not know enough about the bill to comment on this. I can say that even if the Foundation was made legally responsible for the content, in general the level of care and attention to detail seems to be quite high in most Wikipedias. > The Foundation has frequently tried a number of paid editing trials, Can you please point to me where to find them? Has been tried before donating directly to volunteers with no strings attached? > and I think that's a good thing because donors are likely to stabilize > at paying enough to pay all the past, present, and future wikipedias a > very comfortable hourly rate, plus interest, still have a large and > swiftly endowment to figure out how to invest responsibly, and will be > able to outfit offline applications such as space hotels with a new > LCARS skin I am trying to get Mike Okuda to commission. Realistically the money is always tight, however even with a limited amount of money it is still possible to do nice things for volunteers or at least for some of them. The Star Trek aspect of this shouldn't be fancy ideas about the future, but realistic ones like enabling volunteers to follow their passion, freeing them from work whenever possible, supporting them in the mission, and joining efforts with other non-profit organizations to create a favorable social climate. > I think the Foundation employees... Here I was referring mainly to volunteers, specially those who take a heavy burden on their shoulders individually. It can be argued whether WMF employees are receiving enough generosity from the Foundation or not, what is clear is that employees already receive *some* generosity. On the other hand volunteers receive no direct generosity, unless they find other activities that qualify to apply for a grant. That in my opinion conveys the message that if you are a volunteer you don't deserve to be taken care of by the community just by doing what you are doing, which in my opinion is a very negative message that we are giving to volunteers, donors, and to society in general. Kind regards, Micru _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
