Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
Just take a look at this graph. The salaries have been bloating whilst hosting expenses are flat and plummeting as a proportion of all expenses.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#/media/File:Wikimedia_Foundation's_expenses_evolution_by_rubrics_in_US_Dollars.svg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#/media/Fi...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#/media/File:Wikimedia_Foundation's_expenses_percentage.svg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#/media/Fi...</a><p>Net assets are sitting at ~$240M about 10x what they were a decade ago. Yet they roll out a sob-story banner on every page insinuating that they might cease to exist if you don't cough up.<p>It gives me an uneasy feeling that the ex-CEO went to work for a think tank. I hope they're politically neutral.<p>Obviously it's become a gravy train. At a certain point they should have stopped the begging because clearly they have the resources to run the site several times over.