Should they have put logic into their banner ads and email to exempt any logged-in user who ever made an edit?

If you have a new point to make, it's best to make it as a top level comment rather than trying to prop yourself up as opposing a point someone never made.

Wikimedia is free for its users and doesn't do ads, you need to pay the server bills and find development somehow.

It absolutely does, and Wikipedia gets my donation yearly for that. However there are legitimate questions about how much/few of that is dedicated to its core tasks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has...

Right, it is not like most large orgs. So the excuse "most large orgs throw parties" is not a good one, imo.

Though tbh "other orgs do it" is never a good argument, but it is especially bad here.

I've attended a bunch of Wikimedia/Wikimania conferences. These are held on a shoestring budget, and any drinking and dancing is on participants' own dime.

WMF's per-employee T&E cost is apparently $7k/year. Working in sales at a company you've heard of, I've flown single flights and attended single dinners that cost more than that.

Yes, except WMF should not be doing sales.

They're an online wikipedia. Their costs keep ballooning, and not to pay for things that I care about when I donate money to support their core mission.

Haha freudian slip there,

*online encyclopedia.