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Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by heyoni »

cubefox wrote: post #358
zulban wrote: post #355

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Gave it a skim. What specifically is biased about it? Even ideas that are wrong need to have articles about those labels. There could also be an article about a "woke pipeline" if that's a concept label people are taking about.

It demonizes right-wing YouTubers with the slur "alt-right". There could absolutely no such article exist about a "woke" pipeline. Anti left-wing bias is not acceptable in Wikipedia. Anti right-wing bias is not much of a problem.

Sometimes being wrong is wrong. It’s hard to talk about conservatives in a neutral tone sometimes because stating just the facts can sometimes sound negative. Remember how all the media outlets were “anti Trump” because they all described the voting scandal as being “without evidence”? That’s because there was none.

You couldn’t report on that and simultaneously be on the side of reality without also being against the Trump campaign.

Also, is alt right a slur? Cause woke isn’t.

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by heyoni »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #365
lallysingh wrote: post #341

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I think you assume a lot about other people's finances.

It's not assuming a lot to think someone who made several hundred thousand dollars has enough to live comfortably for a few months . I could move into a very nice apartment in any city in the world for less than $5,000/mo. I have no doubt that with that kind of cash, I could move in today . Surely after making $300,000 you would have enough left over to do the same! If not, then you are obviously not qualified to be…

Yea everybody knows that if you’re not capable of living frugally and/or have mastered the art of personal finance you couldn’t possibly have any specialized skills or technical abilities.

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by heyoni »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #336
grumple wrote: post #329

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You could say the same about any professional. You do it because it's the right thing to do, and if you don't do it, people are more likely not to work for you in the future.

> You could say the same about any professional. False.

Case closed I guess?

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by smsm42 »

gtirloni wrote: post #294
tombert wrote: post #5

Man, I've been fired by for-profit companies and felt lucky to get four weeks severance. It's upsetting that people working for a non-profit are getting 1.5x their salary, but I guess this is kind of what we get for believing that a non-profit is going to act better than an evil corporation.

It's upsetting that you only got 4 weeks. I'm happy WMF is not so shitty. I think it's more productive for everybody if the bar is raised, not lowered.

Not so shitty towards the CEO and COO. I wonder how much severance the rank and file people who were fired got? Like, the ones mentioned here: https://blog.legoktm.com/2023/04/05/wikimedia-foundation-lay...

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by hashar »

mschuster91 wrote: post #266
hashar wrote: post #230

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I would guess the pool of IP addressed used by Apple has been blocked from contributing since for any good faith editor, there is a vast amount of vandals taking advantage of the feature to deface articles en masse. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Apple_iCloud_Private_Relay has some context and list potential problems that might arise (and do in your case). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Apple_iCloud_Private_Re…

> we trusted the IP of their client. The community could then block the user behind the proxy. With everything behind https nowadays, that is no more possible (the intermediate proxy can not inject any header to carry the information). Not exactly true - the "Proxy Protocol" [1] was invented for that purpose. Wikipedia as an entity should be large enough to ask Apple if they can implement support for it - the questio…

If that protocol is a technical solution to the problem and match our requirements toward privacy, I don't see why it would not be adopted, then: - The TCP header is not encrypted and thus publicly exposes the IP address of the client - I don't see why the Apple Relays would emit that information since that would defeat its purpose of obscuring the original client IP - It looks like it is a custom protocol between two HAProxy Enterprise instances - It seems to be a feature of "HAProxy Enterprise" which sounds like it is not available under an open source license.

We do have direct point of contacts with engineers at Apple, Facebook, Google etc and do collaborate with them on a wide range of technical topics. The foundation has a dedicated team to vandalism, blocking etc https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-Harassment_Tools . I forwarded your remark and maybe they can update the wiki page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Apple_iCloud_Private_Relay (it is mostly from November 2021 and looks like it might use a refresh).

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by Alpha3031 »

kloch wrote: post #267

Wikipedia is an amazing resource that I use all the time, and currently the best (or least worst) model for curating such a massive knowledge base. For these reasons I have $100/mo recurring donation set up. $240M is less than two years of expenses but I do think they could do a much better job explaining their budget/expense growth. I tend to view math/science pages most of the time and it's rare to see any non-neut…

Have you considered donating an hour or so of your time every month instead? This could be instead of or in addition to a monetary donation.

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by bawolff »

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #278
Akronymus wrote: post #272

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I use redirector with the following settings: Redirect: https:\/\/(. )\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/([^?] )(?!=\?useskin=vector) to: https://$1.wikipedia.org/wiki/$2?useskin=vector Applies to: Main window (address bar)

Are you saying if we use the URL parameter "useskin" set to "vector" we can get the old layout back? I wonder if this applies on other sites using mediawiki. [EDIT] Fuck me! It does work both on wikipedia and the Arch wiki. So long.

And if you want the even older skin ?useskin=monobook

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by hashar »

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #278
Akronymus wrote: post #272

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I use redirector with the following settings: Redirect: https:\/\/(. )\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/([^?] )(?!=\?useskin=vector) to: https://$1.wikipedia.org/wiki/$2?useskin=vector Applies to: Main window (address bar)

Are you saying if we use the URL parameter "useskin" set to "vector" we can get the old layout back? I wonder if this applies on other sites using mediawiki. [EDIT] Fuck me! It does work both on wikipedia and the Arch wiki. So long.

The `useskin` parameter should work on any MediaWiki instance as long as the targeted skin is installed on the instance. You can grab the list of skins from:

Special:Version (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version#mw-version-ski... )

An API query: * direct: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&... * demo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=quer...

Which yields the code name of each skins installed (eg: vector-2022, vector, monobook ...).

Re: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

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Post by nly »

grumple wrote: post #327
noobermin wrote: post #298

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To be honest, this more highlights how far out of step tech salaries are with...well everyone else.

If a company is making 1 million per employee, why shouldn't the employee get a substantial part of that? I was personally responsible for easily 2 million / year in income at my previous job (and possibly just as much or more at my current job).

I'm working a project solo for my employer that is worth $2-3M/mo.

I make like 0.5% of that before tax.

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