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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

WMF staff have voted 158–14 in favor of union representation 🎉 🎉🎉 WMF says it respects the result and will proceed with good-faith collective bargaining. Huge thanks to everyone who helped spread the word! NLRB results: www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740 WMF […]

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

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 […]

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

RE: wikis.world/@neriman/11700007610453… Board of Trustees announced that they are supporting WMF's decision...

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

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 […]

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

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: wikifired.org

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

RE: wikis.world/@neriman/11661458841387… 2 out of 6 people fired were rehired in another position

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

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 […]

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

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.

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

RE: wikis.world/@neriman/11661458841387… 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 […]

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

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 […]

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Jens Ohlig @johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

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 […]

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Magnus Manske @magnusmanske.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

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

A map with overlayed locations, one of them opened into a pop-up, showing a species observation from iNaturalist as an example

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

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

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Iván Sánchez Ortega @ivansanchez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

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]

A screenshot of a github discussion titled "can't disable copilot code reviews"

A screenshot of a github discussion titled "Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories"

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

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

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Magnus Manske @magnusmanske.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

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

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

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. www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Safe…

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Product Safety and Integrity - MediaWiki

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