The last CEO of Wikimedia Foundation was ex Mckinsey, the current CEO was a senior advisor at the US National Security Council.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

The last CEO of Wikimedia Foundation was ex Mckinsey, the current CEO was a senior advisor at the US National Security Council. Can we maybe stop having these sorts of people in charge of our commons?

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

Do we need to have a CEO of Wikipedia? Can we maybe just not?

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

Can we build the worlds knowledge base without rulers?

[ivan@bonfire.cafe]

@liaizon@social.wake.st Policykit ftw!

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

Decentralize Wikipedia now! socially, economically and technicality

[demha@comp.lain.la]

@liaizon isnt that the internet?

[nasser@merveilles.town]

@liaizon no gods no masters no ceos

[nemobis@mamot.fr]

@liaizon There is no CEO of Wikipedia.

[nemobis@mamot.fr]

@liaizon Oh dear, I thought we had this discussion just a short while ago. Turns out it was 2010.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FIKY6K6QKTT64PCRVSGGKLTRUFPUTC7B/

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@liaizon I was a bit surprised when I learned that Wikimedia foundation isn't a cooperative that is governed by it's members and everyone in the upper positions is essentially voted in. But it's not yeah

Which is why I had a very confused "huh?" When I heard about a Wikipedia union being formed one of two months ago

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@liaizon the next one will be a Palantir exec, followed by a Kissinger-head-in-a-jar

[kouett@soc.kouett.net.eu.org]

@liaizon istg wmf management is so fucking out of touch. why do they keep hiring these office drones???

[regendans@todon.eu]

btw - There's federated wiki software. https://ibis.wiki

And would it be possible to set up Wikipedia copies per year for instance 2025 and 2026 and 2002 and so on so the public can create a more compact version ?

We could have much smaller Wikipedia content forks for example per country.

I'm having this in mind as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_Wikimedia_projects#Generative_AI_and_LLMs

#wikipedia #ai #noai #federated #fediverse

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@nemobis you know what I mean. If the CEO of Wikimedia is the one responding to the firing of people who are working on the software that makes Wikipedia run the fact that it's technically a different entity is moot.

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@liaizon

"can we . ." no, not when there is that much money involved

The foundation has revenue of . .gasp .. 180 million US dollars, give or take

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@liaizon
"senior . ." seems like McCarthyism

The US NSC is a large place, with some divergent views, and "advisor" can mean a lot of things

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite copied the line from her Wikipedia page exactly. So take it up there if you think that's incorrect

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@demha no

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@liaizon so you take no responsibilty for what you post ?

sure, ok, that is fine, this is social media

[demha@comp.lain.la]

@liaizon whatd an decentralised wikipedia be like?