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

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@johncarlosbaez This makes me sad. There has been so much pressure on wikipedia over the last year or so. Its a bit of a canary in the coal mine. I should probably download a backup of it just in case we start losing things.
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