Jake Orlowitz
@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social
Internet Citizen, Founder of the #Wikipedia Library, #1Lib1Ref, and the Wikimedia Consultants Network. Lead at #WikiBlueprint Consulting. Seeker of well people and sane societies. Project2029.me #resist
The union election does not discover the workers’ preference. It creates a window in which to change it. Textbook union-busting by the Wikimedia Foundation: medium.com/regarding-wi... @wikipedia.org #Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Union Busting Is Textbook
They’re acing the test. Unfortunately, it’s for doing the wrong thing every step of the way.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is acing the test. Unfortunately it's for doing the wrong thing every step of the way. medium.com/regarding-wi... @wikipedia.org #Wikipedia
How the Wikimedia Foundation’s Union Busting Is Textbook
The word “textbook” usually gets used loosely. Here it applies literally. There is an actual scholarly literature on how American employers…
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That's so sad. I used to think they were brilliant. No more donations from me.
The Wikimedia Foundation is acing the test. Unfortunately it's for doing the wrong thing every step of the way. medium.com/regarding-wi... @wikipedia.org #Wikipedia
How the Wikimedia Foundation’s Union Busting Is Textbook
The word “textbook” usually gets used loosely. Here it applies literally. There is an actual scholarly literature on how American employers…
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A raft of misinformation has been coming from inside the house of verification. Now the 'misstatements' are clear as day. medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Lies, Damned Lies, and Union-Busting Statements
What the Wikimedia Foundation is saying versus the evidence
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A raft of misinformation has been coming from inside the house of verification. Now the 'misstatements' are clear as day. medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Lies, Damned Lies, and Union-Busting Statements
What the Wikimedia Foundation is saying versus the evidence
medium.com
This sucks. Just canceled my monthly recurring donation.
Do NOT contribute to Wikipedia. It is using that money to bust a union organizing campaign.
Jake Orlowitz@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
Going to end my annual donation if @wikimediafoundation.org continues this. They have a tiny amount of employees relative to the 250,000 volunteer editors that keep it humming. Already emailed executive team Two @404media.co stories: www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa... www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...
Jake Orlowitz@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
The non-profit running Wikipedia is working overtime to crush a unionization effort among its employees. You should absolutely withhold donations to the @wikimediafoundation.org until they recognize their employees union.
Jake Orlowitz@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About
A federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’…
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The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About
A federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’…
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Four days will tell so much about the Wikimedia Foundation... #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...
Four Days to Answer
Wikipedia’s American workforce has asked the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize its union. The response, due Friday, will show what the…
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A newly published plan would defund Wikimedia user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates outright, the newest turn in a 20-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. @jakeorlowitz.bsky.social
The Foundation Giveth and the Foundation Taketh Away
A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end…
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A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates, a twenty-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
The Foundation Giveth and the Foundation Taketh Away
A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end…
medium.com
A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates, a twenty-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
The Foundation Giveth and the Foundation Taketh Away
A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end…
medium.com
"Wikipedians have a phrase for someone who doesn’t belong: 'not here to build an encyclopedia.' A community discussion applied that phrase, and a community ban, to Larry Sanger, a founder who was banned for not being there to build the very thing he founded." medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Not Here to Build an Encyclopedia
Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, and the twenty-five-year fight over who founded Wikipedia
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"Wikipedians have a phrase for someone who doesn’t belong: 'not here to build an encyclopedia.' A community discussion applied that phrase, and a community ban, to Larry Sanger, a founder who was banned for not being there to build the very thing he founded." medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Not Here to Build an Encyclopedia
Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, and the twenty-five-year fight over who founded Wikipedia
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Brooke Vibber is joining the Community Tech Team... at Wiki Project Medicine Foundation! medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia
Wiki Project Medicine Builds Its Own Community Tech Team
In May, the Wikimedia Foundation laid off Brooke Vibber. A week later it wound down Community Tech, the small team that existed to build…
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The Foundation cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data, the countries it kept and the countries it dropped trace a certain logic, along with one country it cannot seem to make up its mind about. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
The Shrinking Hiring Map of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Foundation behind Wikipedia cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data…
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The Foundation cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data, the countries it kept and the countries it dropped trace a certain logic, along with one country it cannot seem to make up its mind about. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
The Shrinking Hiring Map of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Foundation behind Wikipedia cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data…
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When they mentioned interviewing volunteers who spent as much as thirty hours a week researching and writing an encyclopedia that handed them no byline and no paycheck, listeners kept asking the same baffled question... #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...
Why Would Anyone Do This for Free?
What moves Wikipedia’s unpaid, volunteer editors
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