Was zum... ? @wikimediafoundation löst das TechTeam auf, das an Community-Software-Wünschen gearbeitet hat. Und deren Mitarbeiter werden entlassen. Einige davon waren gerade dabei, eine Gewerkschaft zu gründen. Was mit den Entlassungen angeblich nichts zu tun hat...

Weder die Auflösung des Teams noch der Anschein von Entlassungen im Zusammenhang mit einer Gewerkschaftsgründung hinterlassen einen guten Eindruck, was den weiteren Weg der #Wikimedia und deren Projekten angeht.

Projekt-Aktive können ihre Unterstützung für die Gewerkschaft unter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United#Solidarity kundtun.

#WikimediaFoundation #WMF #Wikipedia #Unionbusting #Gewerkschaft #WikiWorkersUnited

Do you use #Wikipedia, #Wiktionary, #WikimediaCommons, #Wikidata, or other #Wikimedia resources? The #WikimediaFoundation has just disbanded an entire team of staff who work closely with volunteer contributors, coincidentally while some of those same staff have been working to form a union. Volunteers from various projects are planning collective action in solidarity with the workers. On the English-language Wikipedia, this action might include an editorial strike (no new content) or making the wiki read-only. #union #solidarity

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United

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

Vincitori del #concorso #Wiki Loves Monuments del 2025

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/04/29/2025-wiki-loves-monuments-photo-contest/

#photography #fotografia #Wikimedia #WikimediaFoundation

The #WikimediaFoundation is signing a disturbing agreement with #Indonesia in order to allow Indonesian access to #Wikipedia.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260425-under-blackout-threat-wikimedia-reaches-compromise-with-indonesia

A provision in the agreement lets the govt "take down content deemed as 'causing public unrest and disturbing public order'."

Indonesia assured WF that the agreement was merely "administrative" and that "there would be no unlawful content takedown orders." But of course the agreement makes harmful takedowns lawful.

"Last October, Indonesia briefly suspended #TikTok's local operating licence after the social media platform refused to share information sought by Jakarta about violent anti-government protests earlier in the year."

#Censorship

Mais enfin il n'ont pas d'UX designer à la #WikimediaFoundation?

Qui s'est dit que c'était une bonne idée de donner le même libellé aux deux boutons ?

#Wikipedia