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?
Replies:
25
Dear Sir or Madam,
I offer loans for everyone who needs them. Real estate and car loans are also available. If you are starting a business or planning projects such as construction or financing, this is your opportunity. I offer loans from €10,000 to €900,000,000 at an interest rate of 5% and am always transparent and honest.
piqueseverinne@gmail.com
Sincerely,
@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?
@liaizon There is no CEO of Wikipedia.
@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.
@liaizon Sure, the WMF ED/CEO/whatever is ultimately responsible for hiring/firing WMF employees. I have no information on whether the current one has made things better or worse yet (she just started) but at least she made some positive statements about the value of unions.
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?
