Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

I totally second this. I apologize for engaging with him earlier; I didn't realize at the time that he was such a pathetic troll. *Neil P. Quinn* +1 (202) 656 3457 On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Jake Orlowitz wrote: > Seconding Lodewijk here. I can already count at least

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

Seconding Lodewijk here. I can already count at least 5 phrases or statements that David Emrany has said which made me cringe and wonder why hasn't this been blocked/moderated already? Hostile, accusatory, and vulgar behavior degrades this entire forum (beyond its already damaged capacity for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The end

Please consider this thread officially closed. Continuing it further can have no possible positive value; on the contrary, it's actively hurtful. If you want to start a new thread discussing the issues in a generic way, go ahead, but be aware that bullying will not be tolerated. Austin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

Thanks Lodewikj for your excellent catches. 1. The form-990 covers the period from 01-July 2014 to 30-June 2015. During which the payments of US$ 300,000 to Sue Gardner (SpecialAdvisor) was comparable to Lila Tretikov's (E.D.) 2. The largest contractor was "Jones Day" US$ 1,742,916 (almost 2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The end

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if that's the time to end the thread now (which is on a very > public list) and let people reach out privately. Discussion of this sort of > topic, especially when a specific person

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

Hoi, > First, there's an overview of 'highest paid contractors' (for reading > along: page 61) and the top one is a law firm for 1.7 Million USD. Which is > quite a big sum of money. I'd like to second this question - 1.7M is a very significant sum and I am surprised that WMF has reason to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The end

Hundreds of more comments on this email thread are available at Slashdot. < https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/18/1442245/wikipedia-editor-says-sites-toxic-community-has-him-contemplating-suicide > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:03 AM, David Emrany wrote: > Thanks for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to get help (an essay)

Hoi, Jake there are plenty of us beavering away for our own private purposes. Some have noble ideas of sharing the sum of all knowledge but realistically there are far more for whom Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, Wikidata name them all is a coping mechanism. This is important to understand.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

Hoi, For a bit of background form 990 is probably something everybody knows about as it is financial and important and that is why we mention this.. For all of you who do not know, we have a FAQ where you may find what is relevant about all this. Thanks, GerardM PS sorry Greg for pulling your