The question is whether throwing money at the problem is the way to solve it.
I remember Damon Sicore's stint at the WMF. He'd been VPE for six years at Mozilla and then came to the WMF. He ended up working all of eleven months for Wikimedia. When he left he was given $100,000 in severance pay, for a total compensation of $292,258 for less than a year's work.
I remember Damon Sicore's stint at the WMF. He'd been VPE for six years at Mozilla and then came to the WMF. He ended up working all of eleven months for Wikimedia. When he left he was given $100,000 in severance pay, for a total compensation of $292,258 for less than a year's work.
https://www.theregister.com/2017/06/07/golden_handshakes_at_...
He was subsequently blamed for the Knowledge Engine fiasco that led to Lila Tretikov's demise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(search_engin...
Lila herself came in and was paid 1.75 times as much as Sue Gardner had been getting. That did not turn out so well either.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...