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Remarks on Wikimedia Foundation recent events

If you pay attention to Wikipedia culture and the WMF, you may know that the Executive Director of the WMF, Lila Tretikov, has resigned amid some controversy. It is an extraordinary story, especially since, given the nature of Wikipedia culture, so much information about events is publicly available. I'll point you to Molly White's " Wikimedia timeline of recent events " as an excellent synopsis of Ms. Tretikov's tenure as ED.  The thing that strikes me most about that timeline is the number of people who left, and the long tenure of each person who departed. On the same subject, Terry Chay's note published on Quora also addresses this. My own tenure at WMF was just over three years, from 2012 to 2015. In that time Ċ½eljko Filipin   and I built an exceptionally good browser test automation framework, which at the time I left WMF was in use in about twenty different WMF code repositories. My time at WMF was roughly evenly split between Ms. Tretikov as ED a