The Wikimedia France Chapter--What went on there?!

[ericbarbour]

Only a "good idea" if it was an ordinary corporation. Wikimedia hijinks are rarely covered up these days--because the powerful insiders are fighting each other for more power. The Martins obviously lost.

[sashi]

Nothing says KICK ME, BECAUSE I AM A GODDAMNED FOOL quite as loudly as Remi babbling this.

I decided to leave Wikimedia France - after having worked there for more than eight years, five on the board of directors, three as president, three on the scientific council.

This decision was not easy to make. During these years, I accompanied the development of the association, from a group of some friends to a professional and effective structure of a dozen employees in the service of volunteers and projects.

I remain convinced that Wikipedia is the most important intellectual event of the beginning of the twenty-first century and will continue to contribute to it. I remain convinced that parallel structures are needed to interface with Wikipedia and civil society. Wikimedia France has experienced a real success, by this yardstick, forming numerous and fruitful partnerships, bringing the use of these tools into mentalities, forming, explaining. Between 2007 and the present day, we went from a project attacked by the media, mocked, misunderstood, to a recognized site, used by all, working hand in hand with the most prestigious world cultural institutions.

Eight years embedded in a Wikimedia chapter and being surrounded by daily displays of stupidity, incompetence, lying, dissembling, back-stabbing, and outright libel, and he still thinks it was a "good idea". Of course, somehow his wife magically became the vice-president of WM France, so we will have to throw "nepotism" on top of the pile.

Absoute a wrong analyse. lets say he makes the same money like Sandra 70K Reintjes, Director of WM-Nl. That's 8 X 70.000= 560.000 euro. For his wife the same, total 1.200.00 euro. And, The French chapter is bigger, so I think it will be more. Of course it was a good idea, your approach is wrong!

He also works at the Bibliothèque Nationale, so that money might help defray the cost of living near Paris slightly. France runs on nepotism.

[Graaf Statler]

Why. Why, why. Why are persons who never edit wikipedia driving in big, fat Audi's? (maybe in big, fat Citroens in France.)
Why, why why. Why are there big party's, even with the king with that Erasmusprijs, were only were people who manly didn't edit Wikipedia for years?
Why, why why. Why get people, just persons, overpaid jobs for doing nothing?
Why, why, why. Why didn't I not even get a digital flower for my hard working in that time of the euro crisis?

I don't want a new Audi, I prefer my 17 old Ford van. And I make my one money, I don't need there shit jobs. And I don't want them too.
But why not a little bit of respect? Why didn't they invite me for that party with the king? My articles had tens of thousands of hits in that time, maybe the king had read them. He has a house in Greece, maybe he was interested in my work.
No, no, no, the honor is for us, we well paid Wikimedians who are doing not a fuck!. Not a single fuck, do you hear me? And I am such a piece of shit for them, it is not even necessary for big fat James Alexander and huppelkut (nasty Dutch word, hopping pussy,) Maher to answer a email!

They can fuck themself!

[ericbarbour]

Absoute a wrong analyse. lets say he makes the same money like Sandra 70K Reintjes, Director of WM-Nl. That's 8 X 70.000= 560.000 euro. For his wife the same, total 1.200.00 euro. And, The French chapter is bigger, so I think it will be more. Of course it was a good idea, your approach is wrong!

I stand corrected, assholery is usually a winning approach! Until the cops come for you, I suppose....

[AndrewForson]

It seems there's some sort of Governance Assessment Report. The conclusions are that they should know what they are doing. It describes the crisis as "inevitable", and suggests that the WMF itself was not entirely without blame. It does not mention that the function of the chapters is to direct a modest amount of donor money to reward particularly well-deserving peons.