Does this count? December 2016: the WMF Trustees decide, unanimously, to explicitly give absolute control over some Wikipedia policies to the Executive Director, Katherine Maher. It was done very quietly and without seeking the input of the Wikipedia editing community. [47][48][49][50] "1. The resol...

re you aware of other instances, besides BLP, where the WMF acted as the "adults in the room" and forced a change of content or a change of PAG As soon as you define what the hell "PAG" precisely means. This is a bunch of vague bullshit, was originally created by Larry Sanger in 2001, was repeatedl...

As of right now, the only real early insiders still on the WMF staff are Tim Starling, Aaron Schulz, Peter Coombe, Ed Erhart, Maryana Pinchuk, Maggie Dennis, Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Ed Sanders, Liam Wyatt, Mark Holmquist, Roan Kattouw, Denny Vrandečić, Joe Seddon, Brion/Brooke/etc. Vibber a...

Remember the "Friendly Space Policy" from 2012? In January, WMF employees created a "Friendly Space Policy" for their public meetings.[29] It was extremely vague, and as pointed out on WR, "This new "rule" of theirs is a joke. It takes antidiscrimination laws and twists them slightly, specifically f...

Among the most obvious vectors of interference are the many Foundation employees and grant recipients who are also "functionaries" on Wikipedia. They change "hats" though before they do it. Any specific examples come to mind for you? Are you kidding? it has been ROUTINE for admins and other suck-up...

Does the model of WP as a Mass Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game still apply? Yes, but instead of crackpots trying to control content, it is now dominated by vandalism patrollers and deletionists. As a content writer, YOU should be more angry about this. How about Biographies of Living People? I...

This guy was unusual among journalists, he actually poked around under the hood to see how the "community" "operates". But he did NOT look into the past ugly history of Israel-Palestine battles on WP, and failed to notice that pro-Israel extremists practically dominated it for the first 10 years of ...

It's now entirely "X", including the domain name, starting a few hours ago. At that same time, they cracked down on my old account, which dates from 2009. They made NUMEROUS demands for multi-factor authentication. After fighting thru that mess and logging in, I found that my feed was totally diffe...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditCritiques/comments/1d0m1wj/will_reddit_be_a_trilliondollar_stock_by_2050/ Obviously Huffman is trying anything and everything to attract advertisers and investors--while he continues to own controlling shares in the company. That is a clear sign he wants to be Zucc. Re...

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/ hmm, this makes me wonder if the WMF filed an amicus in the court case. There's a lot of love between them and the Internet Archive--one hand washes the other. (Remember: similar bullshit happen...