An open letter to Katherine Maher

When are you going to do something about the abusive culture on Wikipedia ?

Greetings Katherine,

I’m just wondering when you are finally going to step up and do something about the abusive culture on Wikipedia that drives away editors. It’s such an oppressive environment even this discussion will likely be reverted as trolling just for asking the question or at best completely ignored by you because it doesn’t deal with pandering donation dollars.

It’s no secret that the editing community is suffering…largely at the hands of abusive admins, the WMF has gotten grant money specifically to deal with the abusiveness but refuses to admit that much of the abuse is due to out of control admins and people in the WMF that could and should be doing something about it like James Alexander.

Rather than deal with the problem admins and editors he bans the whistleblowers and advocates a culture of abuse and bullying. He really needs to go! He doesn’t care about the community or the project as long as the culture gives him control and anyone who believes him when he says he does is kidding themselves.

It’s really a shame how far own Wikipedia has sunk, it used to be a great project and an inclusive and positive environment, now even the most active WikiProjects are shadows of what they once were, editors don’t even want to be admins and the admins on the site do whatever they want with impunity. You need to step up and act. Active and dedicated editors are being bullied out of Wikipedia and other WMF projects just for trying to change and improve the abusive culture by admins who want to keep it the way it is and as the Executive Director the fault is yours and only leadership from the top will fix it.