Rather than post again, I will simply redirect to here.
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"The right to leave, and the right to fork".
However, remember that probably less than 10% of volunteers have heard of the WMF board, about 10% of that 10% are aware of its structures, and about 10% of that actually care. So, a fork on this issue would be a lonely fork indeed.
Actually forking is never viable. Even if a few hundred left, they'd not have the cash to restart. And even if they did, where would they get the user infrustructure to maintain their database? Why would anyone read it?
Maybe 15 employees don't maintain the wiki, but the 97% of volunteers who'd be uninterested even in a well-resourced fork do.
Look, the board restructuring is a PR disaster. They should certainly have consulted, but melodramatic threats are not going to help here. Wikipedia isn't a nation, if you don't like the bread you can go eat cake elsewhere on the internet. The bottom line is that even a mass exodus of the best admins will have far far far less impact on the WMF than missing some corporate funding because the Board is run by amateurs who happen to popular with the small percentage of the teenage wikipolictical userbase who do elections.
Unfortunately for the revolutionaries, the anceint regime can simply ignore the protesters.
Oh, I'm not saying they are right, just that they can.
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"The right to leave, and the right to fork".
However, remember that probably less than 10% of volunteers have heard of the WMF board, about 10% of that 10% are aware of its structures, and about 10% of that actually care. So, a fork on this issue would be a lonely fork indeed.
Actually forking is never viable. Even if a few hundred left, they'd not have the cash to restart. And even if they did, where would they get the user infrustructure to maintain their database? Why would anyone read it?
Maybe 15 employees don't maintain the wiki, but the 97% of volunteers who'd be uninterested even in a well-resourced fork do.
Look, the board restructuring is a PR disaster. They should certainly have consulted, but melodramatic threats are not going to help here. Wikipedia isn't a nation, if you don't like the bread you can go eat cake elsewhere on the internet. The bottom line is that even a mass exodus of the best admins will have far far far less impact on the WMF than missing some corporate funding because the Board is run by amateurs who happen to popular with the small percentage of the teenage wikipolictical userbase who do elections.
Unfortunately for the revolutionaries, the anceint regime can simply ignore the protesters.
Oh, I'm not saying they are right, just that they can.
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