In short the CEO has been flying around too much dealing with external stakeholders, to have the time to deal with the internal situation at the WMF. What type of CEO will you be?. The answer to this question was a typical politicians' non-answer, and sadly for one of the most important aspects in the heirarchy (or should I say 'anarchy') of WMF management and and its bloated paid 'labour force', hence the issues raised by the real stakeholders: the editors who provide the content for free, the maintenance workers and admins who keep it from falling apart - for free, and the readers who take it all for granted but contribute their donations that keep the CEOs in the luxury of near permanent business travel. Still, it's early days yet, and 'nothing pleaseth but rare accidents' . Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
In the end, all of the websites live or die by their content -- not policies created by people lacking direct experience with the content., There are some good people in the WMF, but without required levels of understanding and expert leadership for what we do here, it's pretty much like herding cats and that's perhaps an argument for promoting 'managerial' CEOs from within. Wikipedia encyclopedias may amount to one of the most consulted projects in the world (disregarding its many subsidised forks), but even Big Tech has some semblance of management infrastructure. That's why they are 'BigTech' and why Apple brought Jobs back to save what was almost a bankruptcy to becoming the planet's richest company in not much longer than Wikipedia exists. It's all about having the right people in the right jobs (pun intended). Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:35, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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