I don't understand how a Wikimedia trustee using Wikimedia websites, Wikimedia branding, and this Wikimedia supported email list to promote a funding event for their own commercial project, i.e. "WT:Social", fits with the bylaws which include:

"The property of this Foundation is irrevocably dedicated to charitable purposes and no part of the net income or assets of this Foundation shall ever inure to the benefit of any Trustee or officer thereof or to the benefit of any private individual other than compensation in a reasonable amount to its officers, employees, and contractors for services rendered." https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bylaws

Could someone explain why the Wikimedia Foundation gave permission to one of their trustees to do this in contravention of their own bylaws?

Hopefully asking questions does not automatically get you branded as an "idealogue" or "attention-seeker".

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 00:20, Nathan <nawrich@gmail.com> wrote:

I too expected a stronger reaction from the rigid idealogues and the attention-seekers (although I see that did indeed occur on-wiki, courtesy of the same old grandstanding admins), and thought the minimal response was perhaps a sign of progress!

Might just be disinterest and the ever-shrinking profile of Wikimedia-L.