The new CEO of Wikipedia worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Wikimedia Foundation has now fired the a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. Sign the petition if you've edited Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
John Carlos Baez
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