Mastodawn

Wikipedia went from "do not cite" to "the last trustworthy source on the internet" in the past 25 years and now it looks like they want to throw it all away because they want to break a union.
The largest community driven project in the world, relying directly on volunteers, and they still do not see the value of their own people.

I hate capitalism

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia | by Jake Orlowitz | May, 2026 | Medium
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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Violet Madder 4d ago

@AvSchroeder

This is NOT merely about busting a union.

This is about seizing the the last big motherlode of free information and locking it down for technofascist control.

Look around. They are enclosing the digital commons. This is a coup. We are under attack. Generative slop is a signal-jamming weapon. Journalism and education are being destroyed. Surveillance is invading every facet of our lives, and democracy is getting disemboweled.

Think for one minute about what any megalomanaiacal jerk would do with tech like "AI". Wannabe supervillain billionaires are fighting over who gets to rule the world, and they'll burn the whole thing in the process.

It's not like they were just going to let Wikipedia just keep running around un-enshittified.

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Neil E. Hodges

@violetmadder @AvSchroeder Sucks that everyone is going to continue ignoring things happening while chanting "nothing ever happens". There's no hope for people like that. :/