The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on political activism

Post by ThrowawayTestr » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 3:45 AM UTC

spiffytech wrote: post #37

StevePerkins wrote: post #5

The Twitter thread devolves into various random citations of "wokeism", and that's all fine and well for those who care to argue such examples on Twitter. But even aside from the culture war quagmire, the first few tweets in the thread are fascinating. Wikipedia is up to 400+ employees now? It's spending grew from $10 million in 2010, to $112 million in 2020? The actual website costs are only $2-3 million per year, a…

Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: > In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

Post by chudmeister » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 4:01 AM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #9

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Post by mike_d » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 4:49 AM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #17

mike_d wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. I wish the thread had stopped two or three tweets in. The random right-wing "culture war" ramblings are not cool and they detract from the important message that Wikipedia has solved the problem it was aiming to solve and is now hopelessly lost as an organization.

> Wikipedia has solved the problem it was aiming to solve "A world where every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge" - that's quite far from being a "solved" problem.

Post by agensaequivocum » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 5:13 AM UTC

hondo77 wrote: post #21

version_five wrote: post #2

This is a problem across charities it seems - political activism is not necessarily bad, but when it's all generic woke stuff that has nothing to do with the charity's mission, it becomes really frustrating. The ACLU is another obvious example (as is Canada's equivalent the CCLA that I stopped supporting). But even a hospital I used to support has gotten into the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the…

> But even a hospital I used to support has gotten into the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of thing, it's not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital donations to go to. You're kidding, right? You won't donate to a hospital because "pronouns and stuff" isn't part of "their mandates"? How about sexual harassment? Should they turn a blind eye to that in the…

Post by boxed » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

StevePerkins wrote: post #5

The Twitter thread devolves into various random citations of "wokeism", and that's all fine and well for those who care to argue such examples on Twitter. But even aside from the culture war quagmire, the first few tweets in the thread are fascinating. Wikipedia is up to 400+ employees now? It's spending grew from $10 million in 2010, to $112 million in 2020? The actual website costs are only $2-3 million per year, a…