The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Foundation has now fired a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike. To stand in solidarity with them, sign the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
For more, read on!
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Sure, you can download, say, the english Wikipedia, that's a few terabytes or so. If you also want history and discussions you gain a few magnitudes. Also hosting, but let's not forget they do a lot of filtering, support for authors, handling the insanity that is the internet in general, devs, lawyers, and there is certainly more!
Going without or even against WMF is bound to be difficult, so let's try and save it!
Thanks! I forgot where I looked it up last time.
John Carlos Baez
Karl Heinz Häsliprinz
Refurio Anachro
Lou.
Francesco Marini