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I am immediately discontinuing my donations to @wikimediafoundation until they cease retaliation against workers and fully recognise the #union chosen by those workers.

https://www.wikiworkersunited.org/

Workers are the *sole reason* the Wikimedia Foundation has any place in the world, and you will recognise their self determination.

#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #WorkerUnion #Solidarity

The AI Gold Rush Is Eating Its Own - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-ai-gold-rush-is-eating-its-own #Wikipedia #AI #LLM

Calling #Wikipedia nerds and friends! I'm writing about the stuff happening in Wikipedia land, and I had a thought that I wanted to run past people who actually know what's up (yes, I am a Wikipedian, but a bit of a lapsed one).

Is there any connection to be found between the fact that #AI generated contributions were banned by Wikipedia recently, and the move to fire the community teams?

Perhaps the community was showing too much of its power?

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, your monthly Wiki meetup is tomorrow!

New attendees are always welcome — come along to connect, learn, and share with other editors.

🗓️ Saturday 30 May
⏰ 10am – 12pm
📍 Central City Library
🔗 https://w.wiki/PidB

📷 Rangitoto Island by Bjankuloski06, CC BY 4.0

#Wikipedia #Auckland

Elon Musks Alternative zu Wikipedia: Der Kampf um die digitale Deutungshoheit https://taz.de/Wikipedia-Alternative-von-Elon-Musk-Grokipedia-infiziert-das-Internet-mit-falschen-KI-Inhalten/!6182452
Grokipedia, Elon Musks Gegenentwurf zu Wikipedia, ist ein Sammelbecken für rechte Fake News. Die KI-Inhalte infizieren das gesamte Netz
#Grokopedia 💩
#Wikipedia

Thinking of cancelling your Wikipedia donation? Don’t. Read this first. You’re right to be furious about the layoffs, but walking away sends exactly the wrong message.

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/thinking-of-cancelling-your-wikipedia-donation-dont-read-this-first-228f1984ed23

#Wikipedia

I'm on a roll of getting #LT3 out on an actual Thursday 👍

This week we look at why the Wikipedia Foundation's latest actions are making people nervous.

Also:
- Labour's move to ban social media for under 16s in the UK,
- Meta looking to charge you for using certain WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram features,
- and of course we check in on Pope Leo.

https://buttondown.com/willrc/archive/lets-talk-tech-thursday-31/

#tech #technews #newsletter
#Wikipedia #wikimedia #wikimediafoundation #socialmedia #meta #PopeLeo #LOTR #AI

#Wikipedia should become an EU based cooperative. #JustSayin

union busting at the wikimedia foundation
consider sending them an angry email (especially if you're a donor)
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

#wikipedia #wikimedia #unionbusting

Wikipedia fired their lead dev of 20+ years and disbanded the team serving volunteer editors. Most were union organizers. The Foundation has $296M in reserves and fresh AI money from Microsoft, Meta & Amazon.
It's not just Wikipedia. Same pattern, different victims.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-ai-gold-rush-is-eating-its-own

#ai #wikipedia #wikimedia #ceoaipsychosis #blog #unionbusting #mozilla #openai #enshittification #bigtech

Update. "Studies have shown that [academic] women…are less likely to have a #Wikipedia biography than their male counterparts, and that, when they have a biography, it tends to be underdeveloped…Therefore, a number of projects have been created to increase women’s coverage on Wikipedia…The trend reversed in 2022, and women were 25% more likely than men to have a Wikipedia biography in 2024. In addition, women’s biographies tend to be longer than those of men."
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article-abstract/293/2071/20252566/481904/Monitoring-the-gender-gap-in-the-coverage-of

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Physella acuta ✧

Physella acuta is a species of small, air-breathing freshwater snail in the family Physidae of North American origin. Like other physids, P. acuta presents a sinistral (left-coiling) shell as well as a unique set of muscles called the physid musculature that allows it to rapidly twist the shell as a defence me...

#northamerica #europe #northamericanorigin #americanorigin #familyphysidae #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physella_acuta

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Physella acuta ✧

Physella acuta is a species of small, air-breathing freshwater snail in the family Physidae of North American origin. Like other physids, P. acuta presents a sinistral (left-coiling) shell as well as a unique set of muscles called the physid musculature that allows it to rapidly twist the shell as a defence me...

#northamerica #europe #northamericanorigin #americanorigin #familyphysidae #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physella_acuta

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Physella acuta ✧

Physella acuta is a species of small, air-breathing freshwater snail in the family Physidae of North American origin. Like other physids, P. acuta presents a sinistral (left-coiling) shell as well as a unique set of muscles called the physid musculature that allows it to rapidly twist the shell as a defence me...

#northamerica #europe #northamericanorigin #americanorigin #familyphysidae #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physella_acuta

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Physella acuta ✧

Physella acuta is a species of small, air-breathing freshwater snail in the family Physidae of North American origin. Like other physids, P. acuta presents a sinistral (left-coiling) shell as well as a unique set of muscles called the physid musculature that allows it to rapidly twist the shell as a defence me...

#northamerica #europe #northamericanorigin #americanorigin #familyphysidae #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physella_acuta

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Physella acuta ✧

Physella acuta is a species of small, air-breathing freshwater snail in the family Physidae of North American origin. Like other physids, P. acuta presents a sinistral (left-coiling) shell as well as a unique set of muscles called the physid musculature that allows it to rapidly twist the shell as a defence me...

#northamerica #europe #northamericanorigin #americanorigin #familyphysidae #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physella_acuta

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@wikipediatopedits/116651638769262914

Let’s make the articles on unions and UnionBusting some of the top edited/most read articles! Seems like the Wikimedia foundation needs reminders on where to stand.

#wikipedia
#union #solidarity
#openknowledge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting

Why is America so rabidly anti union? Is it just a side effect of being peak capitalist? I mean the right wing and even centrists are are pretty anti union over here to but to the point where even #wikipedia seems to be #unionbusting? I can’t wrap my head around it.

Les initiatives visant à rendre plus visibles les femmes de sciences sur #Wikipedia semblent commencer à payer. Une étude récente montre que les chercheuses en biologie américaines seraient désormais mieux représentées sur l'encyclopédie en ligne.

https://www.science.org/content/article/wikipedia-s-gender-gap-has-flipped-one-group-scientists

Unionization at Wikimedia: Community protest after layoffs

Employees of the Wikimedia Foundation are currently forming a union. Following layoffs, volunteer authors are now offering to participate in strikes.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Unionization-at-Wikimedia-Community-protest-after-layoffs-11309504.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Netzpolitik #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #news

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260527-wikipedia-anti-labor-fired-union-organizers/

#Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_Girls

#wikipedia #stats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_28

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_28

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #wikipedia

Which #Wikipedia article is this?

1987 debut albums · Albums produced by Mike Clink · Albums recorded at Record Plant (Los Angeles) · Geffen Records albums · Guns N' Roses albums

Play Q6 at https://catfishing.net

Schlechte Nachrichten von der Wikimedia Foundation: Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia. Es geht nicht nur um Big Tech, es geht auch um die US-Kontrolle von Gemeingütern. Die EU muss sich dringend um alternative und Backup-Lösungen kümmern. Petition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity. Danke @harkank für den Hinweis!

Yeesh. I tried to do an article merge on the Spanish #Wikipedia because it somehow ended up with duplicate articles on the same subject.

Obviously this is pretty hard to do because I barely understand #Spanish and I did the mistake of turning one page into a redirect which is apparently a no-no judging by the automatic bot revert I got.

Would appreciate any feedback from Spanish Wikipedians. 🙏

Target article: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Tres_Reyes

History merge request: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tabl%C3%B3n_de_anuncios_de_los_bibliotecarios/Portal/Archivo/Fusi%C3%B3n_de_historiales/Actual#Islas_Tres_Reyes

#Wikimedia

Elshieshields Tower: tower house in Dumfries and Galloway.
Listed building LB9970
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17571251
(There is an article on German #wikipedia but none on en.wiki)

#ScottishHistory #DumfriesAndGalloway

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

I began donating to #Wikipedia through #Wikimedia Foundation after threats against it from fascist shitbags in the USA, several years ago.

I just sent them a request to cancel my donation because I don't approve of their #unionbusting tactics.

I invite others to do the same and let their displeasure be known.

I began donating to #Wikipedia through #Wikimedia Foundation after threats against it from fascist shitbags in the USA, several years ago.

I just sent them a request to cancel my donation because I don't approve of their #unionbusting tactics.

I invite others to do the same and let their displeasure be known.

I began donating to #Wikipedia through #Wikimedia Foundation after threats against it from fascist shitbags in the USA, several years ago.

I just sent them a request to cancel my donation because I don't approve of their #unionbusting tactics.

I invite others to do the same and let their displeasure be known.

I began donating to #Wikipedia through #Wikimedia Foundation after threats against it from fascist shitbags in the USA, several years ago.

I just sent them a request to cancel my donation because I don't approve of their #unionbusting tactics.

I invite others to do the same and let their displeasure be known.

I began donating to #Wikipedia through #Wikimedia Foundation after threats against it from fascist shitbags in the USA, several years ago.

I just sent them a request to cancel my donation because I don't approve of their #unionbusting tactics.

I invite others to do the same and let their displeasure be known.

RE: https://social.coop/@fraggle/116646618806644275

folks

i think we should organize something for june 1

what can we do? maybe no one uses wikipedia on june 1?? idk but we gotta do something

is something already in the works? i wanna know!!

#wikipedia #BrookeVibber #strike #union #unions #unionbusting #BigTech #wikimedia #BrookeVibberDay #noAI #organize #boycott #protest

RE: https://social.coop/@fraggle/116646618806644275

folks

i think we should organize something for june 1

what can we do? maybe no one uses wikipedia on june 1?? idk but we gotta do something

is something already in the works? i wanna know!!

#wikipedia #BrookeVibber #strike #union #unions #unionbusting #BigTech #wikimedia #BrookeVibberDay #noAI #organize #boycott #protest

RE: https://social.coop/@fraggle/116646618806644275

folks

i think we should organize something for june 1

what can we do? maybe no one uses wikipedia on june 1?? idk but we gotta do something

is something already in the works? i wanna know!!

#wikipedia #BrookeVibber #strike #union #unions #unionbusting #BigTech #wikimedia #BrookeVibberDay #noAI #organize #boycott #protest

RE: https://social.coop/@fraggle/116646618806644275

folks

i think we should organize something for june 1

what can we do? maybe no one uses wikipedia on june 1?? idk but we gotta do something

is something already in the works? i wanna know!!

#wikipedia #BrookeVibber #strike #union #unions #unionbusting #BigTech #wikimedia #BrookeVibberDay #noAI #organize #boycott #protest

RE: https://social.coop/@fraggle/116646618806644275

folks

i think we should organize something for june 1

what can we do? maybe no one uses wikipedia on june 1?? idk but we gotta do something

is something already in the works? i wanna know!!

#wikipedia #BrookeVibber #strike #union #unions #unionbusting #BigTech #wikimedia #BrookeVibberDay #noAI #organize #boycott #protest

Quite an easy decision bearing in mind recent developments at Wikipedia: my donations go to the Mastodon instances I use now, where they do some good.

#life #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #WikimediaFoundation #Mastodon

#lesen #buch #wikipedia #Muße #PicknickAufDerAutobahn #mobilitat #gerechtemobilität #klima #KlimaGerechtigkeit #katjadiehl #MarioSixtus #ALT4me
Meine Erkenntnis des Tages
… im ALT 🙃 (da ist einfach viiieeel mehr Platz als hier!)

#lesen #buch #wikipedia #Muße #PicknickAufDerAutobahn #mobilitat #gerechtemobilität #klima #KlimaGerechtigkeit #katjadiehl #MarioSixtus #ALT4me
Meine Erkenntnis des Tages
… im ALT 🙃 (da ist einfach viiieeel mehr Platz als hier!)

#lesen #buch #wikipedia #Muße #PicknickAufDerAutobahn #mobilitat #gerechtemobilität #klima #KlimaGerechtigkeit #katjadiehl #MarioSixtus #ALT4me
Meine Erkenntnis des Tages
… im ALT 🙃 (da ist einfach viiieeel mehr Platz als hier!)

#lesen #buch #wikipedia #Muße #PicknickAufDerAutobahn #mobilitat #gerechtemobilität #klima #KlimaGerechtigkeit #katjadiehl #MarioSixtus #ALT4me
Meine Erkenntnis des Tages
… im ALT 🙃 (da ist einfach viiieeel mehr Platz als hier!)

#lesen #buch #wikipedia #Muße #PicknickAufDerAutobahn #mobilitat #gerechtemobilität #klima #KlimaGerechtigkeit #katjadiehl #MarioSixtus #ALT4me
Meine Erkenntnis des Tages
… im ALT 🙃 (da ist einfach viiieeel mehr Platz als hier!)