Wiki Workers United Solidarity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

Hintergrund: Gewerkschaftsfeindliche Machenschaften der neuen Wikimedia-Leitung https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #WWU #Wikimedia #WikiWorkersUnited

Well, this is disappointing.
Canceling my donations until this is resolved correctly.
If you're an editor, sign the petition linked here.

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
#UnionBusting #WikimediaFoundation #Wikipedia #Labor #BrookeVibber #WikiWorkersUnited #WWU #Unions #JakeOrlowitz

It took me a bit to realize that the person laid off by Wikipedia is our own @brooke. Now I'm even more motivated to support the #WWU than I was already!

An injury to one is an injury to all!

A good write-up by Mia Sato in The Verge about what's been going on on #Wikipedia the past week. https://www.theverge.com/report/939442/wikipedia-editors-protest-wikimedia-layoffs-strike

As of this post, the petition of editors willing to go on strike is at 737 signatures. This makes it the 3rd-most supported petition or proposal in English Wikipedia history. Combined, signatories have made >10,000,000 edits and written ~42,000 articles, including >1,200 recognized as "good" or "featured".

#wikimedia #wikimediafoundation #labor #union #solidarity #wmf #wwu

The #WikiMediaFoundation #WMF has fired 6 employees (5 engineers + 1 manager); there is concern that this is #UnionBusting against #WikiWorkersUnited #WWU, the WMF employees' union.

[1] firing announcement ( #euphemism: "disbanding roles")
[2] en #Wikipedia discussion/petition
[3] meta.wikimedia discussion
[4] express support for WWU

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist#May_20%2c_2026:_Community_Tech_becomes_a_program

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28WMF%29#WMF_Community_Tech_team_has_been_disbanded%2c_engineers_laid_off

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist#May_20_update

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United#Solidarity

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

IAFormer: Interaction-Aware Transformer network for collider data analysis

Waleed Esmail, Ahmed Hammad, Mihoko Nojiri
SciPost Phys. 20, 108 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.4.108

#WWU #KEK_IPNS #IPMU #SOKENDAI
#STDF

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Dynamic models for two nonreciprocally coupled fields: A microscopic derivation for zero, one, and two conservation laws

Kristian Blom, Uwe Thiele, Aljaž Godec
SciPost Phys. 20, 005 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.1.005

#WWU #MPINAT

MORGEN

Vortrag von Nadine El-Hussein über "Political Poetry in al-Andalus and the Maghreb during the Almohad Period" bei der 💻 hybriden internationalen Konferenz "Poetry and Knowledge" an der #WWU

🗓️ 22.11.2025
⏰ 11:00 Uhr
🔗 Informationen & Link zur Online-Teilnahme: https://is.gd/bApwZI