Thank you for informing me. I did not know about such parties.

Not only that but the execs and many pay themselves a nice fat salary with all the benefits and perks of course that most small to medium enterprises would be appalled at for a "struggling non-profit" that we have of their image.

From the banners one might conclude that they are facing imminent shut down and getting by in an unheated offices.

no way I'm giving them money especially after reading the threads here and people attack h_anna for exposing the truth.

What actually happens is that the organisation needs certain skills and networks and hires the right people to bring them in. The salaries are small compared to what the people getting them could get paid at other organisations. I know good people who turned down much bigger salaries to work at WMF.

Nobody has exposed anything, these are all public facts published and actively publicised by Wikipedia itself. They literally actively try to expand participation in local groups, and small parties for the people who gave their time is a gesture of thanks to those people, not some ostentatious overspend.

> The salaries are small compared to what the people getting them could get paid at other organisations.

six digit salaries is small to you?

Not to me - as you can see from the sentence you quoted - but for the people being hired and in context of the other organisations that are offering them jobs.

For the people running an organisation the size and importance of wikipedia? 6 figures is a laughable minimum. The legal and social responsibility, the vast and varied expertise required, the personal social networks you put on the line. We need the best people in those jobs to keep that organisation existing at all, let alone functioning at the level is has and does. Recruiting those people is competing against the rest of the world to hire them, and they are already taking a huge cut in remuneration because they want to do good.

okay well you can support their lifestyle and I will reap the benefits.

Depends on the market rate for their skills. In this case, yes, depending on where they will be expected to live a barely six digit salary could be low.