2026-08-22T23:18:31Z https://nostr.now John Mark Ockerbloom https://nostr.now/npub10a8y9hjrle5jua0r2uejftv7rjv86vn2vfaq8f8dcc9eltypckcs0mw9ua https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/213/567/original/8d2079e990a53032.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/213/567/original/8d2079e990a53032.jpeg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq3s56u57a02p922jtyhw4t22qftdf70jq6mxldvcaxw79zntv0lszypl5usk7g0lxjtn4udtnxf9dncwfslfjdf385qayahrqh8avs8zmz39px82 From LB: &#34;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....<br/><br/>The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing.&#34; <a href="https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943">https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943</a> 2026-05-26T18:18:55Z