Wikimedia Foundation hired union-busting law firm for union election case. The NLRB docket shows that the Wikimedia Foundation has retained Littler Mendelson to represent it in the Wiki Workers United union election. Littler Mendelson is one of the most prominent U.S. management-side labor law […]

RE: https://wikis.world/@neriman/117000076104535006 Board of Trustees announced that they are supporting WMF's decision...

Nemoralis@neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

The Wikimedia Foundation has declined to voluntarily recognize Wiki Workers United, despite the union announcing majority support among eligible US staff. A new community petition calls on the Board of Trustees to direct the Foundation to recognize the union and begin bargaining in good faith […]

The Wikimedia Foundation has declined to voluntarily recognize Wiki Workers United, despite the union announcing majority support among eligible US staff. A new community petition calls on the Board of Trustees to direct the Foundation to recognize the union and begin bargaining in good faith […]

A former WMF employee shared a detailed account of their experience, including what they witnessed in meetings, concerns they raised, workplace culture, retaliation, and their decision to support the unionization effort. Read more: https://wikifired.org/

RE: https://wikis.world/@neriman/116614588413879349 2 out of 6 people fired were rehired in another position

Nemoralis@neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing. Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and […]

From the article in the LB: "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 […]

Former WMF staff members who were recently fired due to recent concerns can contact me to tell their stories. I want to write a general article about WMF leadership's behavior to its employees. You can have my word for anonymity.

RE: https://wikis.world/@neriman/116614588413879349 Over the past few days, Wikimedia Foundation leadership, Wiki Workers United, and community members have all released statements Wiki Workers United said they are "deeply appreciative" of community support and described themselves as a […]

Nemoralis@neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing. Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and […]

RE: https://wikis.world/@neriman/116614588413879349 Over the past few days, Wikimedia Foundation leadership, Wiki Workers United, and community members have all released statements Wiki Workers United said they are "deeply appreciative" of community support and described themselves as a […]

Nemoralis@neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing. Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and […]

The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing. Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and […]

Wikimedia Board of Trustees approve closure of all #Wikinews projects by May 4. You may have never heard of Wikinews or haven’t visited the site in a long time which is part of the reason for the closure […]

New #wikishootme layer options: - OpenStreetMap/Overpass - Mapillary (in progress) - OpenPlaques - INaturalist Observations - Panoramax https://wikishootme.toolforge.org

I was expecting this to happen on Wikipedia. I wonder how many AI agents are out there that haven't been discovered yet. https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/tomwikiassist-the-ai-agent-who-complained

TomWikiAssist: The AI Agent Who Complained About Getting Blocked on Wikipedia

An autonomous bot edited the encyclopedia, filed a conduct complaint against human editors, and wrote a blog post about the experience. It's just the beginning.

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I just found out that you can connect your Mastodon account with Discord.

📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing. https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/ #wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It is Hacktoberfest and we already have inspiring patches on Wikimedia Gerrit!

Fun @wikidata query of the day: ~350 people who were married, then married the sibling of their previous spouse. https://w.wiki/FN5J

The Security team and the Trust and Safety Product team of the Wikimedia Foundation have merged to form the new Product Safety and Integrity team. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Safety_and_Integrity

Product Safety and Integrity - MediaWiki

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Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now verify whether a user has activated two-factor authentication (2FA). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265726

Wikidata Query GUI now supports GeoJSON as \o/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216601

Images on Wikipedia will soon have a skeleton loading state https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397109

20 new wikis will receive new ORES (Objective Revision Evaluation Service) recent changes filters. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964