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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
