<![CDATA[I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable.]]>I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/d9075bd8-0b0d-4921-922e-99be8124596c/i-m-not-happy-about-writing-this-but-too-many-people-i-care-about-are-hurting-and-it-s-preventable.RSS for NodeMon, 22 Jun 2026 21:01:17 GMTTue, 26 May 2026 17:32:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Wed, 27 May 2026 06:04:07 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz also has anyone done a cross reference between the Wikimedia Board / C-suite officers and the files?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/cmdrmoto/statuses/116645026024522637https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/cmdrmoto/statuses/116645026024522637Wed, 27 May 2026 06:04:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Wed, 27 May 2026 06:00:37 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz im taking a shit

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/poofbirb/statuses/116645012284084252https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/poofbirb/statuses/116645012284084252Wed, 27 May 2026 06:00:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Wed, 27 May 2026 02:17:17 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz when there's a mutual aid fund for the hurting Wikipedia unionizers, I'll switch over my donations until this is resolved.

This is an excellent opportunity to show them the power of the people.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/iwein/statuses/116644134076993006https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/iwein/statuses/116644134076993006Wed, 27 May 2026 02:17:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Wed, 27 May 2026 00:40:58 GMT]]>@gloriouscow You may have missed the "memo" from [1], Wikimedia Foundation's "primary law firm" [3][2]; WMF is one of Jones Day's 9 key clients [4]. JDay has a record of being quite anti-union [5][6][7]. But unless you're a WMF leader, you likely didn't get the memo.

@JakeOrlowitz

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Day

[2] https://wikimediapolicy.medium.com/victory-in-the-us-court-dismisses-lomax-v-wikimedia-foundation-bf05bbb21459

[3] https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/wikipedias-deep-ties-to-big-tech

[4] https://www.legal500.com/rankings/ranking/c-united-states/intellectual-property/trademarks-non-contentious-including-prosecution-portfolio-management-and-licensing/50505-jones-day

[5] https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/12/17/boston-globe-hires-law-firm-known-for-taking-hard.html

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20250930003827/https://www.cjr.org/analysis/jones-day-unions-slate-strike.php

[7] https://dcist.com/story/21/12/14/politics-prose-bookstore-employees-unionize

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/boud/statuses/116643755383841113https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/boud/statuses/116643755383841113Wed, 27 May 2026 00:40:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 23:08:36 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz I guess everyone missed this article from 2014 'Not surprisingly, Jimbo rejected our view that "If you’ve contributed for years to Wikipedia you must now accept a new political economy: you have permanent lower-caste status, and have simply been working hard for other people to get rich."' https://www.theregister.com/software/2014/09/03/jimbo-tells-wikipedians-you-cant-vote-to-disable-key-software-features/656753

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Baggypants/statuses/116643392149354953https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Baggypants/statuses/116643392149354953Tue, 26 May 2026 23:08:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 21:10:59 GMT]]>@GarrickWinter I guess we need to decouple everything from the toxic way of doing things in the US. See also Mozilla.

@JakeOrlowitz

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/veronica/statuses/116642929680180703https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/veronica/statuses/116642929680180703Tue, 26 May 2026 21:10:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 21:10:03 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz if capitalists are in charge, wikipedia is doomed. The path is always the same:

* we can run this more efficiently
* we can generate more revenue
* staying nonprofit will hurt our bottom line

MEC in Canada is a perfect example of what will happen to Wikipedia if this doesn't go unchecked.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/swordgeek/statuses/116642925971773984https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/swordgeek/statuses/116642925971773984Tue, 26 May 2026 21:10:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 20:52:06 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz Cancelling my donation today. Sigh.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/troglet/statuses/116642855407369654https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/troglet/statuses/116642855407369654Tue, 26 May 2026 20:52:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 20:35:01 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz Thank you for this article, it's very concerning.

I'm not someone who's ever edited wikipedia, so the petition link doesn't seem quite right for me (at least as far as I can tell). Are you (or anybody else reading this) aware of a more general petition for wikipedia users and supporters to make their opposition to this change known.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/DaleHagglund/statuses/116642788219353379https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/DaleHagglund/statuses/116642788219353379Tue, 26 May 2026 20:35:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 20:29:30 GMT]]>@nora @JakeOrlowitz This is a different and bigger petition saying you will stand for an editorial strike, and is for editors only if I read it correctly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/castanea_jo/statuses/116642766551156564https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/castanea_jo/statuses/116642766551156564Tue, 26 May 2026 20:29:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 20:28:35 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz Bernadette Meehan, as the recently installed CEO, is ultimately responsible for these firing decisions, yes?

And the Wikimedia Board of Trustees were responsible for installing current CEO Meehan, yes?

So finding the Trump regime loyalists is kinda like a game of Werewolf?

https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/board/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/cmdrmoto/statuses/116642762927360918https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/cmdrmoto/statuses/116642762927360918Tue, 26 May 2026 20:28:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 20:20:55 GMT]]>@nora @JakeOrlowitz The bigger list for people to sign: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/castanea_jo/statuses/116642732827601171https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/castanea_jo/statuses/116642732827601171Tue, 26 May 2026 20:20:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 20:17:42 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz Did someone just decide that everything had to suddenly be awful simultaneously or something? Did I miss a memo?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/gloriouscow/statuses/116642720165557926https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/gloriouscow/statuses/116642720165557926Tue, 26 May 2026 20:17:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 19:53:10 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz Thanks for writing it. This is a big deal.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/sennoma/statuses/116642623678267276https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/sennoma/statuses/116642623678267276Tue, 26 May 2026 19:53:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 19:38:25 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz signed and signed. Thanks for covering this!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/poetaster/statuses/116642565671228020https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/poetaster/statuses/116642565671228020Tue, 26 May 2026 19:38:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 19:27:01 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz thanks for the heads up! signed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://is.nota.live/users/beaiouns/statuses/116642520835974579https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://is.nota.live/users/beaiouns/statuses/116642520835974579Tue, 26 May 2026 19:27:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 19:13:29 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz This is deeply unfortunate. I don't follow Wikimedia's internal community and politics much but I'd always hoped they'd continue steering things fairly well.

This is making me think about what collective ownership of the foundation could look like instead.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GarrickWinter/statuses/116642467632273010https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GarrickWinter/statuses/116642467632273010Tue, 26 May 2026 19:13:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 19:04:11 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz i searched "solidarity wikipedia" on ddg and it gave me the wikipedia entry on solidarity lmao

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blob.love/users/nora/statuses/116642431076128622https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blob.love/users/nora/statuses/116642431076128622Tue, 26 May 2026 19:04:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. on Tue, 26 May 2026 18:46:28 GMT]]>@JakeOrlowitz you might want to stick a link on "solidarity petition" so its easier to take action

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blob.love/users/nora/statuses/116642361427972107https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blob.love/users/nora/statuses/116642361427972107Tue, 26 May 2026 18:46:28 GMT