Gerard, Not everything works out -- that's the way of the world. Your argument would imply that no project that had ever attracted anyone's time and effort could ever be discontinued. That is unsustainable. The WMF has limited resources and quite properly has to decide on priorities for allocating its resources. It also has to consider the non-monetary cost -- for example, damage to the reputation of the Foundation, of the movement it leads, and the other projects it owns -- of continuing to support a project that is clearly a failure.
JPS. On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 7:18 AM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > "your time and effort" is for those other people to waste. It is for them > to decide what value they derive from spending it in this way. "our > donations", donations is what donors offer. Once they have donated, it > becomes the money of the Wikimedia Foundation. It is not our donations, it > is not even our money. > > Then consider the cost, to the Wikimedia Foundation. It is largely the cost > of serving the content, the management of the servers. In the big picture > it is not much, it is also very much a question on the inclusivity of the > Wikimedia Foundation that enables the continued existence of these > projects. With a Wikipedia community as a movement we will be excluding > others as we expel volunteers who are considered redundant because they do > not fit our image. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 18:20, Jennifer Pryor-Summers < > jennifer.pryorsumm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Peter > > > > Our brand is already on it in these cases, and yes it would be sending a > > > message - "We want you to risk your time and effort on our projects but > > we > > > may later decide to discard everything you worked for" > > > > > > > I don;t think "discard" is right. The message would be "... but if it > > doesn't work out then we won't continue to waste your time and effort and > > our donations indefinitely". That's realistic. > > > > JPS > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
