John Mark OckerbloomMay 26

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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Show threadcobaltMay 27
@JMarkOckerbloom Dammit! I have donated money for at 10 years now. Granted, not a lot, but for me, a significant amount. In fact, just a week ago I donated again, more than usual. This is a gut punch. It is like how I've felt having to stop donating to ProPublica for dragging out and ignoring reasonable union asks for writers. If I could take back my donation I would. I had specifically donated to encourage the site to avoid AI and here we go again, enshittifying.
Show threadhomo hortus
@cobalt123 @JMarkOckerbloom I read here on Mastodon a toot saying that Wikipedia doesn't need money and that if you want to help, you should help local Wikipedia organizations.
May 27 at 5:33amWeb