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Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want
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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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Yes. I wish they would just guarantee hosting of wiki projects for 30+ years... But no they always ask money for their other projects...
I heard the final goal is to amass enough money to live fully off the capital gains.
While the "volunteers" making it happen for real get nothing...
That's not the problem, 'tho. Wikipedia is volunteer-written and needs money to pay for the SW development and the servers.
The issue is that they are not upfront about their strategy and that they are resisting unionization by the workers who develop the software.
A leading wikimedia software developer (@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net) lost her job a while ago, most likely due to her involvement in the unionisation effort.