It is worth remembering that the company that fired these 7 workers is ++sitting on $296 million++ in reserves, and that the encyclopedia that they manage is entirely written by volunteers for free. Wikimedia isn’t spending anything to pay people who produce the work that they are fund-raising on, and what they are selling access to. In fact, in the last fiscal year, ++Wikimedia Enterprise++ - the team that provides high speed, high volume access to AI companies - just turned profitable on $8.3 million in revenue.
i suddenly dont feel so bad for never donating when they pull out the tin cup.