Jake Orlowitz4d ago
I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia
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 threadGuerric Haché4d ago

@JakeOrlowitz This is deeply unfortunate. I don't follow Wikimedia's internal community and politics much but I'd always hoped they'd continue steering things fairly well.

This is making me think about what collective ownership of the foundation could look like instead.

Show threadVeronica Olsen4d ago

@GarrickWinter I guess we need to decouple everything from the toxic way of doing things in the US. See also Mozilla.

@JakeOrlowitz

Show threadJune [⚦257-⚧213-⚩099]
@veronica @GarrickWinter @JakeOrlowitz what about mozilla? 😱 /gen
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Show threadGuerric Haché3d ago

@June @veronica @JakeOrlowitz They've also been doing some Big Tech-style things, including moving to get AI into Firefox, which faced backlash. See some of the reporting:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/firefox-responds-to-ai-backlash-by-promising-a-kill-switch-for-turning-off-controversial-new-features

Firefox responds to AI backlash by promising a 'kill switch' for turning off controversial new features

The Firefox browser will soon include an AI ‘kill switch’ that will turn off all AI features.

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