This is a proposal that would need to be included in next year's funding plan. It also would involve an obligation for the other teams within the Foundation.
**Part 1: Funding redistribution and Big Ticket team** This year, we (that is, the WMF using movement funds) spent a huge amount of money ($4.5 million) just directly donating to external knowledge equity funds. This was done without Community review, or indeed, approval of the concept. A look through our email archives will show it was hardly a popular use of our money. I propose that we stand-up a 2nd community wishlist team. Going off the average salaries, and the standard non-salary overhead for equivalent organisations, it should support a 16-18 person team. This team's purpose is to handle the "Big Ticket" items, beyond the capacities of the current team. It will probably be 1-2 main items a year, with the ability to handle small(er) items from the main wishlist if they finish slightly early. The current team could then alternate annually between Wikipedia/Wikidata/Commons items and small-project items. **Part 2: blocked item obligations** By far and away the two most common reasons for wishlist items being declined are "too large a project" (hopefully handled by part 1) and "in another team's scope". This aims to handle the 2nd issue with a "co-operate or takeup" mandate. Where another team is "in the way" of a wishlist item, it should be obligated to fulfill that item itself within 24 months, or co-operate and utilise the Wishlist team's resources to fulfill it while avoiding disruption from separate workflows. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/QCZC5X4V5DVQHO2WDOO7HUBEN6KIK2VZ/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
