That’s not the problem, 'tho. Wikipedia is volunteer-written and needs money to pay for the SW development and the servers.
The issue is that they are not upfront about their strategy and that they are resisting unionization by the workers who develop the software.
A leading wikimedia software developer (@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net) lost her job a while ago, most likely due to her involvement in the unionisation effort.
The egregious part of this is they have loads of money in their reserves, ask for donations every year in a misleading way like they’re on the brink of bankruptcy. And now they won’t even recognise their workers union.
This is exactly why I quit donating the past couple years. Bunch of clowns running that organization.
Yes. I wish they would just guarantee hosting of wiki projects for 30+ years… But no they always ask money for their other projects…
I heard the final goal is to amass enough money to live fully off the capital gains.
While the “volunteers” making it happen for real get nothing…
That’s not the problem, 'tho. Wikipedia is volunteer-written and needs money to pay for the SW development and the servers.
The issue is that they are not upfront about their strategy and that they are resisting unionization by the workers who develop the software.
A leading wikimedia software developer (@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net) lost her job a while ago, most likely due to her involvement in the unionisation effort.