Claims of corruption

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    N.B. there are certain evil trolls who assert that Wikimedia may not be corrupt. Take care while reading this page to not fall prey to their propaganda.

    Wikipedia is the largest GFDL corpus access provider. It was usurped by Wikimedia in 2003. Since then it has been alleged to have become increasingly corrupt and unresponsive to contributors and users. Evidence of Wikimedia corruption includes:

    structural corruption

    recently dealt with

    • withholding of information regarding link transit at Wikipedia which would be very useful to editors, but also quite profitable for a search engine like Bomis; several attempts to raise this issue have been suppressed; in September 2004 User:TimStarling did some code to start to deal with it.

    individual corruption by officers

    • libel chill by Wales, attempting to silence critics of his decisions and appointments, or even just those who point out GFDL violations by Wikimedia, e.g. accusing people who say Wikipedia violates GFDL as being guilty of libel against Wikimedia on the Wikipedia mailing list
    • Daniel Mayer was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer on July 4, 2004; this individual is hardly credible as a reporter of facts or a guardian of any principles, given his long standing participation in echo chamber and libel pit activities; it strongly detracts from credibility of Wikimedia and Wikipedia when such a person is in charge of the books

    For issues with developers and others without official status, see Talk:alleged Wikimedia corruption.