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WMF Community Tech team disbanded, engineers laid off (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 days ago by Aatube@piefed.social to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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#Petition: Editors willing to join in collective labor action

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[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

In fact a lot of community technical-focused volunteers don't do a lot of editing either. All Anomie of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AnomieBOT has done is update list tables and sales figures and ze is a highly respected technical editor who, besides the bot and bot approvals, just does a lot of anchor maintenance.

I don't think it's bad that WMF employees don't have experience editing, as that's a very different skillset from WMF's software development, infrastructure, and fundraising missions, but I do agree the lack of community communication is concerning. And thing is, things were pretty great under the last CEO, who announced a timeline of departure last May.