Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation

Re:Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation by flashman on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:25PM (#11178328)

You're painting with a broad brush and your characterisation is greatly at odds with many of the functional non-profit organisations I know here in Australia:

* the St Vincent de Paul Society

* the National Heart Foundation

* Cancer Council of Australia

* Opera Australia

* Unicef

* National Disability Services

I could go on. My point is, non-profit organisations encompass a huge spectrum of activity. Many operate like any other company and pay wages for the majority of employees. I would argue that 'the mission' actually makes a non-profit more likely to succeed, as everybody knows what they're working towards and what team they're on.

Wikipedia is a different beast entirely.

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Re:Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation by aaron695 on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:01AM (#11180034)

You worked internally in of all these and more?

Sorry if I'm a little doubtful but that's quite a resume.

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Re:Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation by jacalata on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:03AM (#11180188)

How do you define functional such that the only way to identify it is to work there?

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Re:Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation by aaron695 on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:21AM (#11181468)

The Australian "National Heart Foundation" for instance has killed a lot of people, fucked up shit.

But people love them cause they are functional. Lot's of PR.

The op topic (On topic to the parent link) was they are very broken internally. So much so they fail the the cause of good.

They do, and they don't, on topic is how good they are, is 500 million the red cross spent on 6 houses true, and right. What's the real story. Are NPO that bad really?

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Re:Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation by toxicFork on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:35AM (#11180255)

I don't think they ever implied they "worked internally in all of these and more".

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Re:Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation by Chris2048 on Friday February 26, 2016 @08:36AM (#11181254)

"I know" would imply that, and "I could go on" implies more. If not, experience with those organisations is not as close as OP.

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Re:Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation by ars on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:35PM (#11179815)

I think he means non-profits where the board members don't get paid.

Do the ones in your example list get paid?

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