Yaroslav,
You're correct in that most volunteers don't care directly. The problem is that a lot of the BoT's recent difficulties have crossed the line from "angry encyclopedia people venting on a mailing list" to "serious and negative attention from the mainstream press". If there is too much of the latter, it may create a perception amongst the general public than even if Wikipedia is a useful resource, that it is incompetent with handling money. As a result, donations dry up, and difficult and unpleasant choices have to be made around budget.
So yes, this sort of thing can influence rank and file editors most seriously, albeit indirectly.
Cheers, Craig
On 19 February 2016 at 07:52, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
To be honest, most volunteers do not care. We understand of course that if things would go really wrong, for example, servers stop running, or money runs out and ads are introduced, or English Wikipedia admins continue resigning/being desysopped without proper replacement, so that we have ten active admins, then we are in serious trouble. But as far as things are running quasi-normal, we just continue. I was making 50 to 100 edits per day five years ago, I am making 50 to 100 edits per day now, I will probably still be making 50 to 100 edits per day in five years, unless I die or leave because of a serious demotivation - and this demotivation is unlikely to be related to WMF. I think staff are way more vulnerable to all kinds of events.