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Jake Orlowitz 18h ago

Thinking of cancelling your Wikipedia donation? Don’t. Read this first. You’re right to be furious about the layoffs, but walking away sends exactly the wrong message.

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/thinking-of-cancelling-your-wikipedia-donation-dont-read-this-first-228f1984ed23

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Thinking of cancelling your Wikipedia donation? Don’t. Read this first.

You’re right to be furious about the layoffs, but walking away sends exactly the wrong message.

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Jake Orlowitz 1d ago

@yoasif Without getting into licensing, law, or ethics, they have ALREADY scraped it. So we might as well get paid. I think that's the nub of it.

Jake Orlowitz 1d ago

“Wikipedia runs on people. It shouldn’t run over people."
Something big is happening .

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-runs-on-people-it-shouldnt-run-over-people-48823f4238bb

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“Wikipedia runs on people. It shouldn’t run over people."

Something big is happening .

Medium

Jake Orlowitz 1d ago

"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." I spent six years on WMF staff, founded The Wikipedia Library in 2011, and have been editing for nineteen years. I wrote this piece because the people I worked with deserved someone willing to speak plainly. The response suggests the public is listening. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia

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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Jake Orlowitz 2d ago

I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia

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

Jake Orlowitz Feb 26, 2025

Can we make Project 2029 a reality? www.Project2029.me

Jake Orlowitz Nov 13, 2024

What's at stake in the court case in India against Wikipedia? https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/wmf-bjp-court-order-sell-out-principles #wikipedia

Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?

At a time of rising authoritarianism, the Wikimedia Foundation faces a choice it may celebrate—or regret—forever

The Wikipedian

Jake Orlowitz Nov 8, 2024

Urgent matter of Wikipedia editor privacy rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2024_open_letter_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation

Wikipedia:2024 open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation - Wikipedia

Jake Orlowitz Nov 7, 2024

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/i-live-in-a-blue-bubble-so-how-can-i-help-as-an-individual-bf47b1439b84

“I Live in a Blue Bubble… So How Can I Help?” - Jake Orlowitz - Medium

The frustration is real. It’s hard not to feel isolated and helpless, watching so much suffering from within a “blue bubble.” Yet, there’s a way to channel that frustration, a way to make it count…

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