Oh yes
A quick Google and a look in Wikipedia will tell you everything you need to know. We live in interesting times.
Hours after receiving the dreaded football manager’s vote of confidence from his board, Wikimedia’s newest trustee has quit. Tesla’s VP of Human Resources, Arnnon Geshuri, was appointed to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation over Christmas, but community members registered their disquiet with the decision.An open vote of no …
They went and looked for the exact ONE single single thing you will NOT find on Google: unwanted details about Google executives. Only the rest of the world has to give up its privacy so that Google can make its money, but not Google people, of course.
Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up.
It wasn't on the first page of Polish Google? Pathetic.
What's bordering on sinister is that those board members -- like Wales -- who did have some inkling of the issue didn't alert their colleagues before they asked them to rubber-stamp the appointment of the man.
Maybe they didn't really want anyone to dig too deeply. And one would have thought that an organisation like Wikimedia that goes on about transparency and openness had a more democratically constituted board.
... 19 people working in fund raising, and yet the actual "editors" or whatever they're called, do not get paid?
Where does the money go? To the bunch of not-good-enough-to-get-a-proper-job "developers" who come up with shit stuff that nobody asked for, nobody wants, and nobody likes?
No skin off my nose really, but sounds a bit dishonest, doesn't it?
Actually, 19 fundraisers out of 300 isn't bad for a non-profit employing that many people. Most places that would be 250 out of 300.
As a non-profit, they're required to file a return with the IRS and they are required to provide you with a copy of it if you request one. Whether or not it will tell you anything useful is yet another issue.
Looks like you can find an electronic copy of their 2014 return at http://www.guidestar.org.