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Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia (medium.com)
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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.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago*

That’s true.

I asked because it makes me wonder if there’s a grain of justification. The circumstances sure look suspicious from the outside, but who knows what happened within.

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