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?
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@liaizon If someone needs to be in charge, pick someone whose career has been with libraries. Not a corporate shill or a spook.
@liaizon Eh....Boy have you got a weird read on that one. Unless you have evidence or proof to the contrary what that actually means is a free speech advocate is in a position to advise government about classification standards.
@liaizon Sure we can, just kill em
@liaizon i bet they are courting the cop from raspberry pi as we speak…
@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.
@liaizon
"senior . ." seems like McCarthyism
The US NSC is a large place, with some divergent views, and "advisor" can mean a lot of things
@failedLyndonLaRouchite copied the line from her Wikipedia page exactly. So take it up there if you think that's incorrect
@liaizon so you take no responsibilty for what you post ?
sure, ok, that is fine, this is social media
@failedLyndonLaRouchite what are you talking about? If you think she wasn't a senior advisor you need at least give some evidence of that
"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
@liaizon the next one will be a Palantir exec, followed by a Kissinger-head-in-a-jar
Do we need to have a CEO of Wikipedia? Can we maybe just not?
Can we build the worlds knowledge base without rulers?
@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."
@Robotistry no straight lines! We should only have pendulums
Decentralize Wikipedia now! socially, economically and technicality
💯 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
@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
@liaizon isnt that the internet?
