A Prophet Is W/O Profit In His Pwn Wikiland, Non-Profits Are Not W/O Honoraria, Fool !!! Options

[anthony]

Is it fair to say that Jimbo possibly really believes in Wikipedia's "mission"? Supposedly I heard that Wikipedia could rake in upwards of 500 million if it started running ads, so what motives would he have not to make it commercial.

Well, first of all, it's not Jimbo's decision. He's merely one member of a board of nine. Secondly, what motives would he have *to* make the WMF commercial? A commercially successful WMF would only compete with the corporation which Jimbo has an actual financial interest in, Wikia.

As Seth Finkelstein points out, here, that he is paid more for one buzzword session that the Chief Technical Officer is paid for a whole years work.

I have a feeling that's no longer accurate.

This post has been edited by anthony: Thu 28th January 2010, 9:23pm

[Cock-up-over-conspiracy]

I have a feeling that's no longer accurate.

Hmmn ... you were right. Danese Cooper, the "Open Source Diva", got the job. (Blog here).

Salary was advertised in the range of $100,000 to $120,000.

That is more than a UK Member of Parliament or, e.g. the National Commander of the Salvation Army but, and this will amuse some of you, about the same as Debi Ghate ... secretary for The Ayn Ryand Institute.

Or slightly less than Julius E. Coles, President of Africare, who gets $136,319 for a charity that handles $44,000,000. (Remember Jimbo's poor girl in Africa for whom the Wikipedia is all about?).

This post has been edited by Cock-up-over-conspiracy: Fri 29th January 2010, 12:10am