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'''Wikimedia Foundation''' is a private tax-exempt corporation (IRS 501) in the US founded and mainly run by Jim Wales aka Jimbo. | '''Wikimedia Foundation''' is a private tax-exempt corporation (IRS 501) in the US founded and mainly run by Jim Wales aka Jimbo. | ||
It has no [[independent board]], no [[legal charity status]] in any country, and seems to spend money it raises on providing hardware for mediawiki sites such as [[Wikipedia]] | It has no [[independent board]], no [[legal charity status]] in any country, and seems to spend money it raises on providing hardware for mediawiki sites such as [[Wikipedia]] and [[Wiktionary]]. | ||
Some claims have been made that part of the funds it raises is used to support development of the [[mediawiki]] software | Some claims have been made that part of the funds it raises is used to support development of the [[mediawiki]] software (which [[Consumerium]] [[R&D wiki]] is running on). According to [[Mediawiki]] developers '''these claims are not true''' and they are receiving no money or support from '''Wikimedia'''. | ||
[[ | Many longstanding participants in the [[Wikipedia]] project have serious problems with the people and processes employed by the '''Foundation'''. As a volunteer organization, it probably has growing pains, and it's unclear if it will outgrow these, gain an [[independent board]], or other attributes of a responsible nonprofit. Most of the criticisms have to do with [[wiki management]] problems on which there is little well-understood practice. | ||
Wikimedia/Wikipedia's struggle to resolves its internal contradictions (multi-language project run by a [[GodKing]] who speaks and reads only English, claims of neutrality with no outreach or mediation mechanism other than a technology that itself puts a [[sysop power structure]] of mostly developed-world people in charge of content, inability to examine its own [[community point of view]]) will provide both good and bad examples for the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]], which would do well to avoid all the pitfalls it is falling into. ''See [[142.X.X.X/Tim_Starling]] for a starting list of these, and references to longstanding issues and potential solutions that 'Wikipedians' ignore and censor, mostly at [[Meta-Wikipedia]], e.g. [[m:regime change]].'' | |||