stuart yeatesWhere is the best write-up(s) of the GCC/EGCS fork? Causes, effects, lessons learnt, etc.
I was strictly watching from the sidelines but it did feel stressful at the time.
Tamzin Hadasa KellyA 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
More than twenty years ago I was recruited from #everything2 to #wikipedia because #en.wiki was clearly building the better encyclopedia.
>300k edits later, if a better encyclopedia rises from the ashes that #WMF appears intent on leaving, I'm more than happy to be recruited.
"better" can have a lot of dimensions, some of them prima facie mutually exclusive; it doesn't have to be perfect.
Strypey"If [WikiMedia Foundation] breaks the union, or just lets the firings stand and waits for the news cycle to drift, the signal sent to every other mission-driven tech organization is that values rhetoric is decoupled from values practice. Every nonprofit pulling in donations on language about community, transparency, and equity gets permission to keep that language on the website while the staff handbook reads like Amazon’s."
@JakeOrlowitz, 2026
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
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Evan ProdromouIf you haven't already, please sign the letter of support for the Wiki Workers Union.
#WMF #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #WWU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
It's going to be an unusual #BrookeVibberDay this year.
caramel beurre salope ❌🔜 @GPNThe Wikimedia Foundation offices are located on the 18th floor in Suite 1895
One Sansome Street, Suite 1895, San Francisco, California 94104
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Administrative_space
#wmf #wikimedia #wikimediaFoundation
One Sansome Street, Suite 1895, San Francisco, California 94104
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Administrative_space
#wmf #wikimedia #wikimediaFoundation
WMF are union-busting transphobic arseholes who dont deserve ONE CENT of your support. Hope they'll be overthrown by the community they allegedly represent soon.
#wmf #WikimediaFoundation
https://433.world/@Yuvalne/116626215367858883
#wmf #WikimediaFoundation
https://433.world/@Yuvalne/116626215367858883
Talya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️ (@[email protected])
and the #Wikimedia foundation knows about it and does nothing. in fact in the case of HrWiki, one of the aforementioned "Hitler was a good guy" Wikipedias, the foundation deliberately chose not to act *for years*, according to *their own admission*.
Don-kunWas 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
BoudThe #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
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist#May_20_update
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United#Solidarity
