Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to non-Wikimedia projects

Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by GauntletWizard on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:06PM (#37181367)

There's not a good public breakdown of how much of those salaries are on people developing Wikipedia/mediawiki/moderation tools, and how much are on special projects. It doesn't matter, anyway, because impressive failed software projects like the awful visual editor are hard to parse out of the "real work" budget.

Wikimedia foundation has cancer [1]. They've provided a huge value and reaped big rewards, but now they have built to grow, and the growth engine just keeps wanting to grow.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has....

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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by lostmsu on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:31PM (#37183006)

> It doesn't matter, anyway, because impressive failed software projects like the awful visual editor are hard to parse out of the "real work" budget.

This needs to be taken with the thought that not all projects necessarily end up good.

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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by newaccount74 on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:57PM (#37184692)

Yeah, in retrospect it's easy to say that something was a waste of money. Much harder to tell ahead of time.

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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by bawolff on Thursday August 24, 2023 @05:48AM (#37246913)

Visual Editor is generally pretty popular with a significant portion of users (especially newer users) using it. If that's a failure WMF should have more failures.

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