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If you edit wiki projects, you should add your name to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United#Solidarity to be in solidarity with the ongoing unionization effort at the Wikimedia Foundation.
The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing.
Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and volunteers
A solidarity initiative is now underway across Wikimedia projects.
Read more & consider supporting:
Wikimedia Board of Trustees approves closure of all #Wikinews projects by May 4. You may have never heard of Wikinews or haven’t visited the site in a long time which is part of the reason for the closure.
New #wikishootme layer options:
- OpenStreetMap/Overpass
- Mapillary (in progress)
- OpenPlaques
- INaturalist Observations
- Panoramax
I was expecting this to happen on Wikipedia. I wonder how many AI agents are out there that haven't been discovered yet.
https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/tomwikiassist-the-ai-agent-who-complained
RE: https://wikipediapodden.se/northwestern-europe-hackathon-358/
I think this turned into a good meta episode about organizing hackathons. Both touching on why and how with some good community building points brought up.
#wmhack #hackathon
Great speech from WMF at the UN supporting multistakeholderism and the digital public goods 
Jan Gerlach, Public Policy Director at the Wikimedia Foundation, delivers remarks from the Wikimedia Foundation at the United Nations General Assembly hall in December 2025. Image by Wikimedia Foun…
Here is how to do that:
https://gist.github.com/s626ch/eaef5fd6f991ef8e51877b225ba95a3b
Brooke Vibber
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Kunal Mehta
Jens Ohlig
Magnus Manske
Jan Ainali
Arcstur
