TinDrum4d ago

RE: https://chaos.social/@catileptic/116647102977043390

'Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber...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. The Foundation itself once described her as one of a very small number of people in the world who deeply understand the technical underpinnings of the system. She was also a union organizer'

#internet #www #wikipedia #union

Alex / catileptic (@[email protected])

"TLDR: 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 in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications" https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

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'this is the first time editors have organized solidarity action with paid Foundation staff. Administrators offered to step down...*It should not be legal to operate without a union*, wrote an administrator named Femke. *And a organisation that tries to be a force for good should not be willing to operate without one'*
May 28 at 12:50amWeb