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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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Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity - Wikipedia

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John Carlos Baez 1d ago

For more on the situation, read this:

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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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baconandcoconut 1d ago

@johncarlosbaez That's bad news. I wonder what the process was for choosing this CEO.

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ohir

@baconandcoconut
> wonder what the process was for choosing this CEO.

Likely a fast transfer of tiny tiny sums, some tens of $ thousands, from technazi’s knowledge destruction fund into the pockets of eligible members of the foundation’s board of directors.

@johncarlosbaez