Eugen RochkoRE: https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/116642253074554430
No, not you too ðŸ˜
Pax Ahimsa GethenThanks for boosting this post by @JakeOrlowitz . As I noted when I signed the #WikiWorkersUnited petition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity), my volunteer editing on #Wikipedia is very important to me, but I'm a strong union supporter and I do not cross picket lines.
Tamzin Hadasa Kelly@funcrunch @Gargron @JakeOrlowitz The petition has now passed 300 signatures! This makes it one of 12 things *ever* on the English-language Wikipedia, other than election results, to pass the 300 mark <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:300>. We're having trouble keeping up with the stats on everyone who's signed, but we're past 6.5M combined edits and 26k combined article creations, in terms of past work done for free that people are willing to walk away from if necessary to protect union members' rights.
richintheflow@tamzin What about to fork it? Who cares of the petition? Let's make it public and create another governance for all these free datas!
@richintheflow A fork would be extremely logistically difficult, and, in the event it succeeded, would likely go against the interests of the union we're trying to protect here. I'm not categorically against one, but it's best seen as a last-ditch option that serves as a backstop for more straightforward kinds of activism, as I discuss briefly at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tamzin/What_would_an_editorial_strike_look_like%3F>.