From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." 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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@JMarkOckerbloom Jimmy Wales got to go. Nothing else is acceptable.

@LAG_Netzpolitik_BW @JMarkOckerbloom

Jimmy Wales is on the Board of Trustees, but he is not the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.

@funcrunch @JMarkOckerbloom Thanks for clarification.