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Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 https://news.ycombinator.com
by elect_engineer 7y ago
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".
See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
It is not true that "Over half of the board is elected by the community of editors".
The WMF board is composed of ten members:
Four who are appointed by the board itself;
Three who are selected by the community encompassed by all the different Wikimedia projects
Two who are selected by the local chapters and thematic organizations
One emeritus for the foundation's founder, Jimmy Wales.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Board_of_trustees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Board_of_...
- droid404 7y agoThere are giant voids in the hierarchy between new and established users and between long term editors and the people above. These are mostly sustained by overworking people which in turn is caused by the crappy software. That there are rules, eh I mean guidelines, is somewhat of a joke without means to enforce them. Disagreements across the void are more often than not resolved by ignoring the lower ranking editor. The concept of consensus[sic] is truly a joke with no clear path forwards. Money doesn't solve anything apparently.