Post B6qp9mxq3EYsut2848 by JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
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       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
       
 (DIR) Post #B6qp9mxq3EYsut2848 by JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
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       Extensive discussion of the Wikimedia Foundation's layoffs, the wish-list team disbandment, and the  union drive, from various points of view (including some WMF representatives) can be found at the Village Pump on Wikipedia.  Discussion may eventually move to a dedicated page, but here's one starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#WMF_Community_Tech_team_has_been_disbanded,_engineers_laid_off