My opinion, for what it's worth, is that the funds should not be spent on already well developed wiki projects in privileged nations. The first priority has to be the long term survival of the Wikipedia project as a whole (infrastructure, hosting, staying free of corporate patronage, etc), followed by projects targeting those who currently don't have easy access to encyclopedic information relevant to them.193.113.135.111 14:42, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
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I believe Wikipedia's core mission is to remove ignorance. And I believe that terrorism is caused not by religion but by lack of education. Therefore Wikipedia should incline to develop itself in countries oppressed by war and prejudice. I believe that investing in free access to information and knowledge will guide us into an all-accepting world culture guided by wisdom. By access to information I mean only to such unbiased and objective facts that are allowed by Wikipedia. Kildwyke (talk) 15:00, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
I am entirely in agreement with SMcCandlish on the issue of having pages created in English (a) either transferred to the pages of other languages where the article does not exist at all or (b) merged with the same topic on a 'non-English' page which may contain far less data or, conversely, a good deal more data already. As this implies, such transactions would be a 'two-way-street' whereby richer local knowledge and detail should be merged with more patchy, or innaccurate English-language articles. If possible the relevant translations should be undertaken by bilingual translators of mother-tongue standard in each of the respective languages and any merging/splicing carefully performed by a native-speaking editor of the received data. In this way, the alleged dominance of 'Anglo-Saxon' Wiki would be disseminated throughout ALL languages/countries where Wikipedia has a presence to the benefit of smaller entities which do not have the personnel nor resources to compile a comprehensive Wiki of their own. In terms of cost, regrettably, I have no notion, but I am confident that the FDC will be able to make a reasonable estimate. In summary, I believe this would create a more joined-up Wikipedia, worldwide, to the benefit of all and the detriment of none. Perhaps the FDC could create a new, adequately-funded budget line for cross-language harmonisation? (Brian Benedetti (talk) 07:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC))
Excuse me, but I've got over 6,000 edits and 8 years of working on the project. You'd be correct to point out that I haven't edited de.wiki, the same way that many (most?) non-English speakers don't do many edits to en.wiki. That isn't the point. The point is that I'm a DONATOR to WMF and we have been asked to discuss how the donations collected, which includes my money is to be spent. The number of edits on any given wiki is an woefully inadequate threshold by which to measure someone's ability to contribute reasonable commentary on the existing proposals. I'm truly sorry you feel it's an 'attack' on the proposals, but when you 're about to waste some of my money on a project that doesn't seem valuable to me, my opinion counts, whether you like it or not. Vertium (talk) 22:05, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to see no support at all given to any body that hosts advertisements, like WikiHow in the UK, a subsidiary of Wikimedia I believe. A long battle (remember the Spanish Fork!) was fought against the pollution of advertising, although it was suggested by Our Jimmy Himself. There's nothing wrong with advertising per se (or is there?), but it pollutes Wikipedia, which is as we proudlt boast, ad-free. JohnWheater (talk) 11:06, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Per the invitation for comment and the background information provided (see link for more info)[[٦]], comments on this page are supposed to receive a response from those who've submitted the proposals - during the comment period (which runs from October 1 - October 31, 2014). I find it interesting that there are no official responses of any of the proposal submitters to any of the comments on this page. If they feel so strongly about the importance and validity of their proposals, where is their defense to the critique (and in some cases, disdain) expressed herein? If they can't be bothered explaining why their proposal is truly worthy of the investment in the face of the resistance expressed here, it would appear to me that their project and desired funding might not actually be that important. I think the FDC will have to take such silence into consideration as they evaluate the proposals. Of course, my hope is that the FDC listens carefully to the disgust expressed on this page and rejects all proposals outright and finds a better use for the money. I'm not really expecting that, but I am indeed hopeful anyway. Vertium (talk) 03:18, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
We should provide Internet and basic necessities to Africa and equatorial reqions first, as human potential is most undeveloped there - the resources/benefit ratio will be the highiest there!Equatorial (and tropical) regions has the highiest photosynthetic productivity, and highiest acceleration to launch spacecraft - providing knowldge to people there will be most fruitfull!And, we need to tell more about water crysis in Africa (Latin America, Indonesia, etc.), and how corporations wipe dark-skinned people out of land and genocide them... Knowledge and means of communications are best defence for people - to tearn desert into blooming fruitforests, and increase equatorial black population!--Yegor Morozov (talk) 11:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC) 2ff7e9595c
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