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Wikimedia's CEOs is a collection of literal feds and serial corporate executives, is any of this surprising really?
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Bernadette Meehan, current CEO, was US ambassador to Chile. Katherine Maher, the one before the previous CEO, is a member of the Atlantic Council. (Never beating the NATOpedia allegations.)
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@chjara honestly the way the entire site is run

what do you mean a site begging folks from developing countries to donate money they don’t actually need while simultaneously milking unpaid volunteers for their free labour is against unionization

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And just, Jimbo himself is a massive Zionist and generally libertarian weirdo.
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Really, that Wikipedia is of any use is in spite of, not thanks to, its leadership.
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@chjara not sure if they still do this but they have put up the same donation banners for users in india asking for as low as 1₹‎ which seems orders of magnitude more desperate than they should even pretend to be

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@charlotte @chjara and in terms of community projects that need resources, the WMF is not one of them

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