This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Next headline: Wikipidia sends mobsters beating workers up during an information meeting.
If your so called free society has laws to protect child murderers and racists but nothing to support the right to join a labour union it's not a free society. Go back to the beginning and try again.
I knew there was a reason I got a set of actual encyclopedias. Not new, nor as extensive, but it's in my hands so filthy rich assholes are gonna have to come to my door to stop me from having access to information
Wikimedia, what the actual fuck...
God dammit. No more donations.
Can't wait for ol' Jimbo to come by with his hand out this year, "Please dear reader, won't you give us money to abuse our employees?'
God dammit, this is like the moment the Titanic first hit the iceberg. No matter how this labor issue is resolved, it will permanently demonize Wikimedia. No matter how valuable Wikipedia is or has ever been, current culture provides no foregiveness or path of redemption after an ethical transgression. Again, dammit, I love Wikipedia and have been donating steadily for years.
You really don’t need to donate to them. Wikipedia has enough money to run itself indefinitely. The foundation just keeps growing and wasting money on non-Wikipedia stuff.
Curious, what does Wikimedia actually invest in besides Wikipedia? It's still a non-profit, right?
Let's not say never. Because they can course correct but it has to be hard pivot:
The fact that Wikimedia foundation chose profits over people is absolutely disgusting.
Yeah I'm probably never donating again after this. Why even bother arguing with the current US administration when the foundation is just going to copy all the bullshit the administration is pushing anyway...like, congratulations now literally everybody is pissed at your service.
A few months ago I cancelled my donations due to them firing a group of workers who stated their intent to unionize.
I've never even considered donating since I learned they have reserve that can cover site upkeep for decades, and the way Jimbo Wales spends the money. And this is like, more than a decade ago.
It's the same for St Jude. They sit on millions in reserve and ask for donations that end up in the CEOs pocket.
Source?
Which one? There's so many scandals St Jude is involved in. A 5 second search on Google will give you at least 20 different ones just on the first page.
I'm not familiar with how unions work in the USA. Why does a union need to he recognized by a company? Just to have a formal communication pathway or is there more to it?
INAL and even further away from am American one, but I shall inboke the law of Cunningham . Having the company recognising or just generally being okay with the union formation makes the whole process easier. No hiding your unionisation activities and such. I believe the role of the union-buster is to dissuade the employees from signing up to it, see if there's any dirt on union leaders to have then fired, and to just generally be a royal pain in the arse for everyone.
If I got the story right a bunch of Blizzard developers got fired because they shared company secrets/IP in the same discord server they discussed their unionisation work, so Blizzard's lawyers found an easy way to get rid of them.
What a good use for donations!
Aaand bye bye any intent I ever had to donate again. Fuckers.
I instantly regret every donation I've made to Wikipedia, and won't be making more in the future.
I stopped my yearly contribution last year when they felt the need to start guilt tripping their donors into trying to get them to donate more. It put a massive bad taste in my mouth.
Oh god, is Darknet Wikipedia going to be what finally fucks these assholes?
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Really?? WTF who sold out?? This can only be some sort of sponsored covert op.. The compromised crooks need to be sacked, yesterday!
Granted I don't know much about the foundation, I wasn't expecting such an organism, financed through donations, mostly built by the good will of contributors, to have the same values as amazon.
They're the "good guys" until their power is slightly threatened.
I don't regret my donations, because though this was predictable, I suppose, it hadn't happened yet. It's like the people who bought Teslas before the big reveal that Musk is a Nazi. Maybe we all should have seen it coming, but it's hard to blame anyone for missing it.
Relevant to mention: I've just posted a thread about users reporting that apparently WMF has hired a union-busting firm.
https://lemmy.world/post/50205578
It is publicly confirmed that WMF contracted the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson to fight Wiki Workers United.
(I also posted it to this community but it got deleted by the autobot.)
Edit: I just realised the OP link/article talks about this as well, ah 🤦♂️
Also may be worth mentioning the later part of the article, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, a beta project regarding whose future a request for comments has been called. Many editors believe it is unviable and a waste of money and time: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/The_future_of_Abstract_Wikipedia
