The linked article doesn't even come close to suggesting money laundering. It really just argues that Wikimedia is similar to virtually every other successful organization on earth and that its bloat grows with its resources.

Wow insightful.

The mere existence of The Mythical Man-Month or Peopleware does not prevent this behavior. Turns out it's actually super, super hard to avoid. It's pervasive enough to have several books written about it, and several more angry blogs written about specific companies' failure to achieve the allegedly "easy, obvious" thing that very, very few companies actually succeed at doing!

Makes me wonder if it's not so obvious or so easy... hmm... Nah, probably everyone else is malicious and/or stupid.

I could not find any indication that the purpose of this ever-increasing spending (while alarming) is money laundering in the essay you linked. Can you provide any other source to back up this claim? Money laundering is illegal, while spending money in of itself is definitely not.

The expenses tracking revenue does rather paint a picture.

No individuals should be donating to wikipedia, it is clear that any donation will be spent as rapidly and as wastefully as possible.

This makes it look like the goal of the union is to get into the piggy bank, rather than reverse some kind of hellish work environment.

>It might even be a lawsuit that forces the WMF to pay out a judgement that is larger than the reserve.

lololol