RE: chaos.social/@catileptic/11664…
'Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber...the first full-time employee the Wikimedia Foundation ever hired, and its first Chief Technical Officer. For more than twenty years she was the engineer you called when something deep in the code was broken. The Foundation itself once described her as one of a very small number of people in the world who deeply understand the technical underpinnings of the system. She was also a union organizer'
#internet #www #wikipedia #union
Alex / catileptic (@catileptic@chaos.social)
"TLDR: 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.Alex / catileptic (chaos.social)
