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The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned AboutA federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’…medium.comFour days will tell so much about the Wikimedia Foundation... #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...
Four Days to AnswerWikipedia’s American workforce has asked the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize its union. The response, due Friday, will show what the…medium.comA newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates, a twenty-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
The Foundation Giveth and the Foundation Taketh AwayA newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end…medium.com@scottaaronson.blog.web.brid.gy Butchery or Brilliance? medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
What Happens When a Problem Is No Problem?Sit down to a hard problem today and something strange happens. You describe what you want, and a machine hands back a draft in the time it…medium.com"Wikipedians have a phrase for someone who doesn’t belong: 'not here to build an encyclopedia.' A community discussion applied that phrase, and a community ban, to Larry Sanger, a founder who was banned for not being there to build the very thing he founded." medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Not Here to Build an EncyclopediaLarry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, and the twenty-five-year fight over who founded Wikipediamedium.comBrooke Vibber is joining the Community Tech Team... at Wiki Project Medicine Foundation! medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Wiki Project Medicine Builds Its Own Community Tech TeamIn May, the Wikimedia Foundation laid off Brooke Vibber. A week later it wound down Community Tech, the small team that existed to build…medium.comThe Foundation cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data, the countries it kept and the countries it dropped trace a certain logic, along with one country it cannot seem to make up its mind about. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
The Shrinking Hiring Map of the Wikimedia FoundationThe Foundation behind Wikipedia cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data…medium.comWhen they mentioned interviewing volunteers who spent as much as thirty hours a week researching and writing an encyclopedia that handed them no byline and no paycheck, listeners kept asking the same baffled question... #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...
Why Would Anyone Do This for Free?What moves Wikipedia’s unpaid, volunteer editorsmedium.comMost crowdsourcing projects fail. The few successes everyone cites look inevitable in hindsight. The question is not whether crowds can be powerful. It is what switches that power on, since it does not switch on by itself. #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...
Just Add CrowdThe wisdom of crowds is real. Assembling the conditions that produce it is the actual work.medium.comRemember When Wikipedia Was the Biggest Danger to Students? A history of twenty years of panic medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Remember When Wikipedia Was the Biggest Danger to Students?A history of twenty years of panicmedium.com"In September 2015, I set off a small war between two groups of people who agreed about almost everything." medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia’s Own LibraryWhat the Wikipedia Library and the Open Access movement won and what they lost over a decade in a paywalled worldmedium.comIt's an old song It's an old tale from way back when And we're gonna sing it again medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Wikipedia and the Crisis of Knowledge EquityThe encyclopedia anyone can edit is also the encyclopedia that reflects who has historically been allowed to write, publish, and be…medium.comThe real choice facing the Wikimedia Foundation is not whether it will violate the rules of labor relations. It is whether it will reach for the lawful instruments that have been engineered to make organizing fail without anyone ever crossing a line. medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
Is Neutrality a Property of the Wikimedia Foundation?Every Wikipedia article must be written from a neutral point of view, with no thumb pressed on the scale of a contested question.medium.comThere are in sum just four yes/no questions the Foundation must answer. They amount to a single request, that the Foundation stay out of a choice that is its workers’ to make. medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Is Neutrality a Property of the Wikimedia Foundation?Every Wikipedia article must be written from a neutral point of view, with no thumb pressed on the scale of a contested question.medium.com1000 signers. What do they want? medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
What Wikipedia Editors Are Telling the FoundationThe protest is a chorus, but there are distinct voicesmedium.comWikipedia. Is. Personal. medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
The Conflict and the CallingWhy Wikipedia Means So Much to So Manymedium.com"The recurring failure of centralized power is not that it cannot think. It is that it keeps mistaking the people who can see for the people who must be managed. The eyes are at the edge. They always have been." #wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...
The Most Predictable Edit in HistoryCentralized power keeps failing to foresee what Wikipedia’s community sees at once.medium.com
