Christine Lemmer-WebberMay 27

You do not, in fact, fire your organization's Brooke Vibber

You especially do not fire a Brooke Vibber because of bullshit union busting reasons

Show threadJohn LuskMay 27

@cwebber @jalefkowit

What, whut?

No idea what's going on, but... uh... fired for union organizing? If so, not good.

Show threadJohn LuskMay 27

@cwebber @jalefkowit

Context, for those confused (like me):

«If that name doesn’t mean anything to you, here is what it should mean. Vibber took over as lead developer of MediaWiki, the platform that runs Wikipedia, in early 2003. She was the first full-time employee the Wikimedia Foundation ever hired, and its first Chief Technical Officer. For more than twenty years she was the engineer you called when something deep in the code was broken.»

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Oops, meant to add: 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…

Medium
Show threadLudovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD:
@tarheel @cwebber @jalefkowit looks a lot like Mozilla
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Show threadJohn LuskMay 27

@usul

It's all blurring together.

@cwebber @jalefkowit