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From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Rue Mohr 5d ago

@JMarkOckerbloom I knew it was a writeoff when I attempted to add information to articles and it was IMMEDIATLY erased.

sorry but the wikipedia has always been hopeless. wiki was a fad and from it came wikipedia.

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Sen the Professional

@RueNahcMohr @JMarkOckerbloom I had the same experience. I told off the editors involved, underlined the fact that they'd driven away a new contributor, and peaced out. I don't know what it's like behind the scenes at Wikipedia but if I heard on good authority it was toxic to start and getting moreso by the day I wouldn't be surprised.