The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing.
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@kouett @neriman The English Wikipedia community is already discussing an editorial strike (conditional upon it being requested by Wiki Workers United). At the moment we have 113 signatories, who collectively have made over 3,000,000 edits and written about 700 of our best articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Petition:_Editors_willing_to_join_in_collective_labor_action
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@kouett merci ! great display name btw
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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:
@neriman incredible /s
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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:
@neriman This strike is so strange - it has nothing to do with the fact that contributions are being stolen and sold off to LLM companies, and is focused on layoff.
The actual corpus is being stolen, and people are quibbling over some jobs that people are getting paid for - while the volunteer community is being robbed wholesale.
The staff may be losing their job, but you are working for free and all you want is for some other people to get paid as you get robbed.
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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:
@neriman @ShaulaEvans wow, that "sign the petition is too geeky for me". I guess it's intended for wikipedidia contributors.
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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:
@neriman It was always a bad foundation. They beg for money like they are going to die while giving huge bonuses to executives. I stopped donating after discovering that the campaigns are severely misleading
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@neriman @ShaulaEvans wow, that "sign the petition is too geeky for me". I guess it's intended for wikipedidia contributors.
@deborahh @ShaulaEvans you can sign if you have Wikipedia account, you can also help by spreading the word:
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How to take action for Wiki Workers United as part of the Wikimedia Community
Wiki Workers United (wikiworkersunited.org)
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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:
@neriman I've sent an email to stop my recurring donations to WMF, and stated the reason as their union-busting practices.
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@neriman This strike is so strange - it has nothing to do with the fact that contributions are being stolen and sold off to LLM companies, and is focused on layoff.
The actual corpus is being stolen, and people are quibbling over some jobs that people are getting paid for - while the volunteer community is being robbed wholesale.
The staff may be losing their job, but you are working for free and all you want is for some other people to get paid as you get robbed.
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@greenbone That's exactly what many editors are worried about. Wikipedia's public trust comes from being community-driven and not behaving like a typical tech corporation.
By the way, WMF has stated that the layoffs were not related to unionization efforts and says it will respect the legal unionization process.
@neriman @greenbone They always say that.
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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:
@neriman NB: in the jurisdiction where I live, the suspicion that an employer fired staff because they wanted to unionize may lead to criminal investigations
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