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This is what all organizations do when they don't really care about something.

Well, the vast majority of active community members didn't even get to opine on the matter so it's hard to say. Also I'm not sure the encyclopaedia can be called an organisation, and the WMF weren't involved, save JW opening the discussion.

As an aside the people that wrote the open letter (https://thedaywefightback.org/letter-to-wikipedia/) could have instead opened an RfC on-wiki (no account required). It would just take a few minutes to figure out the MediaWiki markup and read the relevant submitting an RfC help page. It's a shame there appears to be such a slender intersection between open internet advocates and Wikipedia editors.

We posted it as a proposal in the Village Pump, but it was only after the original proposal failed to hit consensus. I'm actually both an open internet advocate and a regular Wikipedia editor, but I try to be careful (and was perhaps too cautious) about not seeming like I was parachuting in to a discussion underway. Next time, more WP:BOLD.

Here's the Village Pump proposal (permalink because VP archives relatively quickly): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village...

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