Wikipedia went from "do not cite" to "the last trustworthy source on the internet" in the past 25 years and now it looks like they want to throw it all away because they want to break a union.
The largest community driven project in the world, relying directly on volunteers, and they still do not see the value of their own people.

I hate capitalism

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia | by Jake Orlowitz | May, 2026 | Medium
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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@AvSchroeder
Oh no.Wikipedia is the only thing we have left. Even Duckduckgo is becoming enshittified. Unreal.
@Ambulocetus DuckDuckGo is a company based entirely in the United States. This is significant for the legal status
@Ambulocetus download wikipedia if you have an extra ssd.
@return0media
Yes, I've been thiniking about that. Maybe it's time to do it.