ericbarbour wrote:Graaf Statler wrote:That is one of the reasons they keep on giving money to total failed projects. Why? No idea.
It's simple: those projects are started by their little Wiki-Friends. And none of them will ever admit it in public.
It still operates like a religious cult.
If it wants to survive, it has to let in outsiders (especially at the WMF) to examine just what it is that they are doing, bureaucratically and with the wiki-projects. We know that they have failed to improve the wiki software, we know they hire sketchy people like Ryan Kaldari and Eric Möller, we know they waste money, but we also know they are sitting on millions. They have had around ten years to get their act together after the
Essjay fiasco and they spent that avoiding the essential question "could we have avoided that?" and instead continued to fart around. Beyond a True Reckoning, the WMF needs somebody to drive it out of it's "failson"* behavior. Something useful could be made by them, if they put their minds to it.
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* A term invented by the
Chapo Trap House podcast, defined by Urban Dictionary:
White, middle-class, male, useless people—who have just enough family context to not be crushed by poverty.Felix, the failson of the family, goes downstairs at Thanksgiving, briefly mumbles, ‘Hi,’ everyone asks him how community college is going, he mumbles something about a 2.0 average, goes back upstairs with a loaf of bread and some peanut butter, and gets back to gaming and masturbating.
Still "Globally Banned" on Wikipedia for the high crime of journalism.
