John Mark Ockerbloom3d ago

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 threadJack C.3d ago
@JMarkOckerbloom oh fuck off 😡 hopefully archiving is underway?
Show threadSebastian Lasse

@GandalfDG @JMarkOckerbloom

If anyone is interested in federating wikidata / wikibase, I wrote much code towards ActivityPub Vocabulary.

Cause I love wikipedia.

At the same time, I am also a co-founder of freelens union [DE, then also FR …] and so:
Full solidarity.

May 27 at 5:37amWeb
Show threadJack C.2d ago
@sl007 I'd be interested in helping out, or at the very least reading some documentation. Not sure how much compute/bandwidth/admin effort I can spare
Show threadSebastian Lasse2d ago

@GandalfDG

Thank You!
The documentation about out projects is https://codeberg.org/Menschys/fedi-codebase [unfrotunately mixed language - chaos is good :)]
I am on the way to stick a repo and online example together, currently doing the rest of OpenStreetMap->AS Vocabulary cause when it has a wd identifier, it can result in 1 object and vice versa.

We would like to do a 1 hour online meeting soon about the building fedi blocks with some interested people, I'd let you know when.

PS Saw you're on indieweb.social; apart from the ActivityPub Confs, I have done various indiewebcamps in EU and would wish that oceans are much smaller :)

fedi-codebase

meta-repo keeping track of the unified codebase for the ActivityPub Clients menschys. taxiteam and redaktor.

Codeberg.org
Show threadJack C.2d ago

@sl007 definitely looks interesting, I'd happily attend a webinar about it to get a better idea of the goals.

I like the idea of being able to provide some amount of storage and bandwidth towards a larger whole almost like BitTorrent but for web content