Asta v. Schröder5d ago

Wikipedia went from "do not cite" to "the last trustworthy source on the internet" in the past 25 years and now it looks like they want to throw it all away because they want to break a union.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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Show threadGlenn Seto4d ago
@AvSchroeder Sure would be a shame if the community were to (Libre)off(ice) them...
Show threadJuɦo̞ Mæn̪t̪yˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞4d ago

@glennseto @AvSchroeder

The Foundation upkeeps the servers. They have low hundreds of millions dollars of donated money for that purpose. Forking would mean abandoning the money and trying to come up with alternative revenue streams.

The OpenOffice/LibreOffice -split didn't involve money, but was about the mismanagement of the codebase.

TBF, my head went to forking as well, but apparently it isn't feasible.

Show threadstuart yeates

@iju @glennseto @AvSchroeder

I disagree.

Forking is always an option.

Yes, it'll be very disruptive for a while.

But it'll also be a chance to make some necessary breaking changes and the code level and de-ossify some of the organisational structures.

May 27 at 8:59pmWeb
Show threadJuɦo̞ Mæn̪t̪yˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞4d ago

@stuartyeates @glennseto @AvSchroeder

Well, it's a nuclear option. Getting the Foundation to do some spring cleaning would be immensely more preferrable.