Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

It is not true that "Over half of the board is elected by the community of editors".

The WMF board is composed of ten members:

Four who are appointed by the board itself;

Three who are selected by the community encompassed by all the different Wikimedia projects

Two who are selected by the local chapters and thematic organizations

One emeritus for the foundation's founder, Jimmy Wales.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Board_of_...