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

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?