Re:A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher
by f430 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:44PM
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> The salaries are small compared to what the people getting them could get paid at other organisations.
six digit salaries is small to you?
Re:A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher
by Blahah on Sunday February 07, 2021 @04:19PM
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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.
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.