[Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

Tue Mar 1 20:44:42 UTC 2011

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> The part where adding this person leads to better content? Wikimedia's
> mission is to educate the world with free content. I'm not sure how a
> Propaganda Minister really furthers that goal. There is a very finite amount
> of resources for staff hires; I just don't see how this passes any type of
> reasonable cost/benefit analysis.
>
> If it's the outside world's perception of Wikimedia that is the underlying
> concern, I think hiring someone whose job description includes "make
> something incredibly beautiful every month" might be more detrimental to
> Wikimedia's image and mission than anything else. There are a lot of people
> who would be (more) willing to donate to Wikimedia if they didn't feel their
> donations would be spent like this, in my view.
>
> MZMcBride
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Don't you see it? It's a position needed to ensure and improve the
cash flow. Which in turn is needed to support a continuosly increasing
spendings and an increasingly large staff.

This position is key for the strategic sustaining of the wikimedia
movement (and don't you dare to speak bad of that).