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

[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

Wikimedia Foundation Org - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download tax filings going back as far as 2001.

ProPublica (projects.propublica.org)

[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?

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite what are you talking about? If you think she wasn't a senior advisor you need at least give some evidence of that

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@liaizon

sorry, no not disputing that she was a SA

disputing what "senior advisor" means cause as I read this, "senior advisor" means she is some sort of bad person not to be trusted (roughly speaking)

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite I think anyone who gets involved in the US National Security aparatus is already a spesific type of person. You don't just find yourself there. That's not to say they are "bad" or "good" but it already pinpoints the area of focus your life has taken.

[robotistry@fediscience.org]

@liaizon Your post came across my feed alone, and before I clicked through, my first thought was

"But .. isn't accurate measurement kind of important? And straight lines? I still use a ruler even though it's been years since grade school."

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@nemobis @liaizon If Wikipedia is not part of Wikimedia foundation, why is Wikipedia periodically running really intrusive ads that are persuading people to donate to that foundation, while saying that they aren’t running ads?

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@nemobis @liaizon And why does every Wikipedia page say "A Wikimedia project", a link to a page that says "All major projects are operated by the Wikimedia Foundation", if Wikipedia is not operated by the Wikimedia Foundation?

[eriogonumdarwin@mastodon.social]

@liaizon The reply (x2 via zendesk, see my profile name) to my donation cancellation reads like the comms team at Walmart. Smells like a CEO relationship to Wikipedia to me.

[gekitsu@toot.cat]

@liaizon i bet they are courting the cop from raspberry pi as we speak…