Veridiano Jesus

Olivia Lucas

@greentiger538986 · Jan 12, 2026 9:54 am

CMV: Wikipedia and its related projects (Wikimedia) are incapable of fixing their governance problems

First thing first: I am not gonna discuss external politics here. My disagreement with the Wikimedia foundation is unrelated to any political bias on English Wikipedia. If I call anything conservative this refers to the governing structure not being willing to change. Please do not bring up such criticisms of it as they distract from the governance problems in question. We can talk about Wikipedia political bias in a different thread or in dms.
I believe the rigid governance structure of Wikipedia is incapable of changing. It relies on a highly adverserial structure that is pretty much like a state with zero due process and zero lawyers. The difficulty of approving any changes makes it unworkable, as arguably one of the largest and most influential knowledge institutions this is unsustainable and severely harms it.
The only part I think is generally good is Wikimedia commons.
Reforms I want
I believe Wikipedia needs to change its culture to significantly reward the highly technical contributors much more than it does. It should generally reward technical ability and either close off its api to unapproved people or make it less punished to use it
Wikipedia needs to accept more artic