Medium's Orlowitz: Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

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.

As Financial Contributor to Wikipedia over past years this distresses me to no End to hear about. Unless the situation is resolved with a satisfactory result I'll be ending such

This is NOT GOOD For The World or the Internet

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