In fact, not one single non-anonymous person has ever said anything different than what Marc just posted (as far as I know). James Salsman is alone in his crusade; the people he believes he is "fighting for" evidently don't desire his help. My suspicion is that this all goes back to his attempt to convince the Foundation to pay administrators, and perhaps editors, for their efforts.
In June he argued on this list about his "survey", and accused Foundation employees of lying to him and others about the research policy. In October, he hinted that he had conducted an additional survey that revealed a substantial proportion of Wikipedia administrators are living in poverty; while he refused to reveal this data or how he conducted his survey until some undefined legal issues are resolved, he used it to protest the decision of the FDC to not permit funding to individual editors. Between that time and the end of the year, in addition to asking the Foundation to advise the Secretary of Defense to invalidate patents, James Salsman accused Foundation employees of lying to the public and to the Board about fundraising and proposed a resolution of the Board that would restore funding to various programs that, in some cases, result in salaries to some editors. Again in February he raised the issue of providing compensation to "impoverished long-term contributors", Wikinews contributors and professional fact-checkers. On his linked mission to pay editors and improve the pay of junior Foundation staff, James is virtually alone. In the 8 or so months that he has been posting to Wikimedia mailing lists, rarely if ever has anyone expressed support for either effort. And yet he is not deterred. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l