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Sorry, I'm not suggesting anything about the fundraising methods or tactics. I'm just talking about the general idea, floated often in comments on threads like
by ff317 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not suggesting anything about the fundraising methods or tactics. I'm just talking about the general idea, floated often in comments on threads like this one, that our budget and/or reserves and/or endowment are unjustifiably large already, as typified by comments of the nature "How much does it take to run a few servers?" and similar.
I get that the article and other comments are about the fundraising, but my comments are not trying to address anything particular about fundraising methods/tactics.
- bryans 5y agoThanks for the clarification, but you can't really remove the fundraising from a conversation about whether the financials are justified, because that is literally one half of the topic. This is especially true when it comes to criticisms of the financials that you're side-stepping, such as >20% of the revenue not even going to Wikimedia. To boil it down, somebody asked "are their expenses really that high" and you responded with "yes" even though the evidence says otherwise. You can name all of the individual expenses you want, but their existence does not automatically equate to justification.