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

#Medium #JakeOrowitz #BigTech #UnionBusting #Wikipedia #WikimediaFoundation #BrookeVibber #MediaWiki #BernadetteMeehan

Here’s @coachtony sharing more about what we’re up to with me.dm, why we’re excited about #Mastodon and the #fediverse, and what it will mean for #Medium writers and members.

blog.medium.com/medium-embrace…

As @coachtony writes:

”Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community."

👋 Hi, this is the official Medium account on our new instance! This is our home on @me.dm, where we’ll be boosting writers and publications, sharing stories, and trying to deepen our understanding of Mastodon and the fediverse.

To get started, we thought we’d share this list of resources about getting up and running if you, like us, are new here: scottlamb.blog/list/f4843d1cc8…

#medium, #introduction, #MediumWriters, #NewHere