Oh no, I grant you that, the fund raising group is one of the only ones IMO that are pretty good and I do agree their banners are annoying. There are even certain individuals that are good, or that care about the project, etc. but those are generally outliers. The vast majority of the WMF doesn't even edit. They are literally paid to do work for the WMF and wouldn't volunteer to fix a typo. The IT team is hit and miss, but there is a huge amount of work that needs to be done on the IT side but they can't seem to pull it together.
But looking through
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/St ... ontractors lets see what we have to work with:
- Office of the Executive Director= Worthless
- Trust and Safety= Completely worthless
- Audiences and Audiences design=Worthless
- Contributors and all it's subgroups=Virtually worthless with the occasional lucky bit of good work
- languages=Worthless
- Program management-Worthless
- Readers=Worthless
- Technology (this is where the fundraising group lives for some ungodly reason) = Mediocre with certain groups balancing out the worthless aspects of the division like the MediaWiki Platform that is horribly out of date and behind in bug fixes and improvements; the mobile platform, etc.
- Community Engagement = Completely worthless. When is the last time the WMF engaged the community on anything
skipping down a few to the end...
- Talent and Culture = Again...worthless!
I could really go on and on with more details to the end of the page but I think I have made my point here. Although you are correct, there are some competent people and sections, the organization as a whole is failing to do their job.