I'm a lil' alarmed somebody hasn't made a free SilverDict/GoldenDict/StarDict web frontend but I do enjoy that one of the more authoritative Quechua dictionaries has this banner www.illaa.org/index.php/qu...
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![Kristie Robinson, May 29, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC:
Hi,
Thank you for your email and for your support of the Wikimedia Foundation and free knowledge.
Thank you also for sharing your concerns. I am happy to provide you with more context and information about the recent events.
The decision to disband the Community Tech team is not in any way connected to recent discussions about unionizing, nor have we terminated any staff for their participation in those discussions. The Foundation respects the right of staff to unionize if they vote to do so.
Earlier this month, the Wikimedia Foundation restructured the way the organization supports the Community Wishlist initiative, a forum for the volunteer editors behind Wikimedia projects to suggest and collaborate on improvements to our product and technology.
The decision to restructure followed internal assessments dating back to September 2025 on ways to make our Community Wishlist work more effective and to improve our support for volunteer editors. We learned from these assessments that it is rarely possible to fulfill community wishes through a single team due to the vast breadth of the software we support and the number of channels through which we receive wishes. The restructuring shifts the management of the Community Wishlist from a single, sometimes siloed team (formerly known as the Community Tech team) to the full Product and Technology Department — ensuring that community wishes can be acted on by teams who are specialists in many different areas.
As part of this restructuring, the Community Tech team was disbanded, and six roles were impacted. The Foundation has been committed to supporting the affected team members during this transition in various ways. The team members are currently still working at the Foundation and are receiving internal support to identify and apply for open roles at the organization.
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