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   Alex Ștefănescu (catileptic@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 02:49:29 JST Alex Ștefănescu

   "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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   Reading Recluse (reading_recluse@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 00:19:45 JST Reading Recluse

   in reply to

   Reminder to create your own Wikipedia backup now that another sinister turn has been taken.

   https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

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   John Lusk (tarheel@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 21:34:45 JST John Lusk

   in reply to

   @cwebber @jalefkowit

   Context, for those confused (like me):

   «If that name doesn’t mean anything to you, here is what it should mean. Vibber took over as lead developer of MediaWiki, the platform that runs Wikipedia, in early 2003. She was 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.»

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   Oops, meant to add: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

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   Asta v. Schröder (avschroeder@fedihum.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 21:18:11 JST Asta v. Schröder

   Wikipedia went from "do not cite" to "the last trustworthy source on the internet" in the past 25 years and now it looks like they want to throw it all away because they want to break a union.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

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   Jake Orlowitz (jakeorlowitz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 05:22:17 JST Jake Orlowitz

   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

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   John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 05:12:50 JST John Mark Ockerbloom

   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