A lot of the friction here is that the WMF (nonprofit who gets donations and runs servers) and the Wikipedia community (the unpaid people who write the content and run the project[0]) are separate entities. Many people in the community feel that the WMF is misleading donors into thinking the donations are for the latter.
[0] Including administrators. It's customary to say "btw I have never been paid to edit", completely unprompted, when accepting a nomination for adminship.
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A lot of the friction here is that the WMF (nonprofit who gets donations and runs servers) and the Wikipedia community (the unpaid people who write the content and run the project[0]) are separate entities. Many people in the community feel that the WMF is misleading donors into thinking the donations are for the latter.
[0] Including administrators. It's customary to say "btw I have never been paid to edit", completely unprompted, when accepting a nomination for adminship.
It's hard to imagine a world in which hiring full-time editors would not have much, much worse outcomes.