Jake OrlowitzI'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia
Nora Reed 
@JakeOrlowitz you might want to stick a link on "solidarity petition" so its easier to take action
@JakeOrlowitz i searched "solidarity wikipedia" on ddg and it gave me the wikipedia entry on solidarity lmao
Krampus 🌰@nora @JakeOrlowitz The bigger list for people to sign: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United
@nora @JakeOrlowitz This is a different and bigger petition saying you will stand for an editorial strike, and is for editors only if I read it correctly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
Guerric Haché@JakeOrlowitz This is deeply unfortunate. I don't follow Wikimedia's internal community and politics much but I'd always hoped they'd continue steering things fairly well.
This is making me think about what collective ownership of the foundation could look like instead.
Veronica Olsen@GarrickWinter I guess we need to decouple everything from the toxic way of doing things in the US. See also Mozilla.
June [⚦257-⚧213-⚩099]@June @veronica @JakeOrlowitz They've also been doing some Big Tech-style things, including moving to get AI into Firefox, which faced backlash. See some of the reporting:
illegal instruction
Bean Club 
@JakeOrlowitz thanks for the heads up! signed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
poetaster@JakeOrlowitz signed and signed. Thanks for covering this!
lower-value human capital@JakeOrlowitz Thanks for writing it. This is a big deal.
gloriouscow@JakeOrlowitz Did someone just decide that everything had to suddenly be awful simultaneously or something? Did I miss a memo?
Boud@gloriouscow You may have missed the "memo" from #JonesDay [1], Wikimedia Foundation's "primary law firm" [3][2]; WMF is one of Jones Day's 9 key clients [4]. JDay has a record of being quite anti-union [5][6][7]. But unless you're a WMF leader, you likely didn't get the memo.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Day
[3] https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/wikipedias-deep-ties-to-big-tech
[7] https://dcist.com/story/21/12/14/politics-prose-bookstore-employees-unionize
Fugue State Machine Moto@JakeOrlowitz Bernadette Meehan, as the recently installed CEO, is ultimately responsible for these firing decisions, yes?
And the Wikimedia Board of Trustees were responsible for installing current CEO Meehan, yes?
So finding the Trump regime loyalists is kinda like a game of Werewolf?
Dale Hagglund@JakeOrlowitz Thank you for this article, it's very concerning.
I'm not someone who's ever edited wikipedia, so the petition link doesn't seem quite right for me (at least as far as I can tell). Are you (or anybody else reading this) aware of a more general petition for wikipedia users and supporters to make their opposition to this change known.
Neil@JakeOrlowitz Cancelling my donation today. Sigh.
Colin B.🇨🇦@JakeOrlowitz if capitalists are in charge, wikipedia is doomed. The path is always the same:
* we can run this more efficiently
* we can generate more revenue
* staying nonprofit will hurt our bottom line
MEC in Canada is a perfect example of what will happen to Wikipedia if this doesn't go unchecked.
Baggypants@JakeOrlowitz I guess everyone missed this article from 2014 'Not surprisingly, Jimbo rejected our view that "If you’ve contributed for years to Wikipedia you must now accept a new political economy: you have permanent lower-caste status, and have simply been working hard for other people to get rich."' https://www.theregister.com/software/2014/09/03/jimbo-tells-wikipedians-you-cant-vote-to-disable-key-software-features/656753
iwein@JakeOrlowitz when there's a mutual aid fund for the hurting Wikipedia unionizers, I'll switch over my donations until this is resolved.
This is an excellent opportunity to show them the power of the people.
Poof Birb 🏴 ⸸@JakeOrlowitz im taking a shit
Dima@JakeOrlowitz Здравствуйте! Спасибо за освещение проблем Вики. Эта международная энциклопедия хоть и имеет проблемы, но однозначно - лучше, что сделало человечество на данный момент.
Graeme 🏴@JakeOrlowitz That's sad. Wikimedia are / were one of the good guys...
Lambda@JakeOrlowitz Noooo! Wikipedia is the last good thing about the internet!
Txels 
@JakeOrlowitz I just asked for a refund for my donations, and an explanation, to the person emailing me to ask for money to keep wikipedia alive. Let's see what comes out.