alt Hacker NewsThis smells like astroturf as it makes absolutely no sense.
> If Wikipedia has excess reserves, that money should be directed to a worthy cause, not just the people at its office
What does this mean? What principle is being articulated here? Organizations should donate to charity instead of paying their workers?
> trying to milk monopoly rents out of Wikipedia will be its (long and slow) death sentence.
Monopoly rents? What monopoly? What rents? Are you saying that employees asking for a better workplace is the equivalent of "trying to milk monopoly rents"?
It means that us lowly volunteer Wikipedians, who write the articles, have long mistrusted those who are paid to work for Wikimedia, and we are unsure what good they do, if any.
This may of course be unfair, but that's the background information.