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Off to cancel my monthly recurring contribution ...

This sucks. Just canceled my monthly recurring donation.

Do NOT contribute to Wikipedia. It is using that money to bust a union organizing campaign.

Not great!

Going to end my annual donation if @wikimediafoundation.org continues this. They have a tiny amount of employees relative to the 250,000 volunteer editors that keep it humming. Already emailed executive team Two @404media.co stories: www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa... www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

The non-profit running Wikipedia is working overtime to crush a unionization effort among its employees. You should absolutely withhold donations to the @wikimediafoundation.org until they recognize their employees union.

Laugh/cry

hmmm

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.com

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A newly published plan would defund Wikimedia user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates outright, the newest turn in a 20-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. @jakeorlowitz.bsky.social

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

A 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

"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.com

The 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.com

Great article by @jakeorlowitz.bsky.social on Wikipedia and #openaccess medium.com/regarding-wi... that includes a sobering account of how publishers repackaged open access and sold it back to academia, while switching to to being data companies.

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.com

There 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.com

Why didn't the Wikimedia Foundation see this coming? medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

The Most Predictable Edit in HistoryCentralized power keeps failing to foresee what Wikipedia’s community sees at once.medium.com