Once the money an organization obtain from grants out matches anything they get from anywhere else they become autonomous. "Community support" just becomes a box to check.
Fred
This week's issue of the English Wikipedia Signpost delivers mildly shocking news about the opinion of a "prominent female Wikimedian (...) about the meaning of the movement and the role of the chapters" as expressed during the Boards training workshop that took place between March 1-2 in London.
The Wikimedian is quoted by the treasurer of Wikimedia Deutschland, Steffen PröÃdorf, as saying: "if we can buy free knowledge, we should do that [and] just forget about the communities" and "Fuck the community, who cares."
I understand that the identity of the person will remain secret, given that there is no public list of attendees of the workshop, so let me just say that the idea that chapters can "fuck the community" is absolutely unacceptable and should by rejected by all chapters immediately.
Read more at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-04-02/News_and_notes
http://steproe.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/die-sinnfrage-was-ist-der-zweck-von-wikimedia-deutschland/
Tomasz
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