Record severance payments at the Wikimedia Foundation

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Record severance payments at the Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: Record severance payments at the Wikimedia Foundation

Post by Boink Boink » Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:14 am

Hilarious to see the continuing inability of editors to appreciate the Foundation is a technology company, whether they like it or not. They do not.

Specifically, the Foundation is a technology company whose salaries and general performance in the recruitment and retention of executive level staff, shows it is a very shit technology company that keeps making huge and expensive (for them) mistakes.

Take a look at the Foundation website. Most of its text that purports to explain to people what they are for, is either directly or implicitly about providing or supporting technology.

The Wikipedia Endowment's billion dollar grants are all for technology projects. An offline reader, machine learning, a machine readable Wikipedia and of course, Wikidata. Nothing that is remotely human in focus.

Of the 75% of their budget that they actually spend on doing things rather than keeping itself alive, nearly half goes directly into infrastructure. Of the remainder, split evenly between three goals, it is clear a lot of money is also being spent on tech. In "equity", they are spending money on educational tools and the "front door" of the Foundation. In "safety", they are spending money on blocking and abuse detection tools. In "effectiveness", they are spending money on translation and internal IT.

The editors whining about how awfu! It is that they don't get paid a red cent, don't yet seem to realise that it was their own campaign to stop the Foundation making transparently false appeals to donors to pony up their $2 a pop to keep Wikipedia online and functional, that is reducing the Foundation's primary revenue stream for supporting all the technology projects without which the editors would be unable to do much except use their time and subscriptions to scribble on an increasingly outdated and vulnerable one language edition of one increasingly brand devalued project, the almighty English Wikipedia.

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