A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates, a twenty-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates, a twenty-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

@scottaaronson.blog.web.brid.gy Butchery or Brilliance? medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

"Wikipedians have a phrase for someone who doesn’t belong: 'not here to build an encyclopedia.' A community discussion applied that phrase, and a community ban, to Larry Sanger, a founder who was banned for not being there to build the very thing he founded." medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

"Wikipedians have a phrase for someone who doesn’t belong: 'not here to build an encyclopedia.' A community discussion applied that phrase, and a community ban, to Larry Sanger, a founder who was banned for not being there to build the very thing he founded." medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

Brooke Vibber is joining the Community Tech Team... at Wiki Project Medicine Foundation! medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

The Foundation cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data, the countries it kept and the countries it dropped trace a certain logic, along with one country it cannot seem to make up its mind about. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

The Foundation cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data, the countries it kept and the countries it dropped trace a certain logic, along with one country it cannot seem to make up its mind about. #Wikipedia medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

When they mentioned interviewing volunteers who spent as much as thirty hours a week researching and writing an encyclopedia that handed them no byline and no paycheck, listeners kept asking the same baffled question... #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...

Most crowdsourcing projects fail. The few successes everyone cites look inevitable in hindsight. The question is not whether crowds can be powerful. It is what switches that power on, since it does not switch on by itself. #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...

Remember When Wikipedia Was the Biggest Danger to Students? A history of twenty years of panic medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

"In September 2015, I set off a small war between two groups of people who agreed about almost everything." medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

Great article by @jakeorlowitz.bsky.social on Wikipedia and #openaccess medium.com/regarding-wi... that includes a sobering account of how publishers repackaged open access and sold it back to academia, while switching to to being data companies.

In tribute. #Wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...

It's an old song It's an old tale from way back when And we're gonna sing it again medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

The real choice facing the Wikimedia Foundation is not whether it will violate the rules of labor relations. It is whether it will reach for the lawful instruments that have been engineered to make organizing fail without anyone ever crossing a line. medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia

There are in sum just four yes/no questions the Foundation must answer. They amount to a single request, that the Foundation stay out of a choice that is its workers’ to make. medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

There are in sum just four yes/no questions the Foundation must answer. They amount to a single request, that the Foundation stay out of a choice that is its workers’ to make. medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

1000 signers. What do they want? medium.com/regarding-wi... #Wikipedia

Wikipedia. Is. Personal. medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia

"The recurring failure of centralized power is not that it cannot think. It is that it keeps mistaking the people who can see for the people who must be managed. The eyes are at the edge. They always have been." #wikipedia medium.com/regarding-wi...

Why didn't the Wikimedia Foundation see this coming? medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

Why didn't the Wikimedia Foundation see this coming? medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

Remember the BIG picture... medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #wikipedia

Hi @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social. I'm the founder of Project 2029. Not the Democratic party initiative. This one: project2029.me. Could you add a note to your piece that we are different organizations? We are a progressive, grassroots, small-donor funded, civic initiative for day one policy action.

Thinking of cancelling your Wikipedia donation? Don’t. Read this first. You’re right to be furious about the layoffs, but walking away sends exactly the wrong message. medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

“Wikipedia runs on people. It shouldn’t run over people." medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

“Wikipedia runs on people. It shouldn’t run over people." Something big is happening . medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

"The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

This page is VERY interesting: #Wikipedia editors (almost all unpaid) showing solidarity with paid Wikimedia Foundation workers who are trying to unionize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... @stephenharrison.com

The WikiBlueprint Guide: The Successful Wikipedian in Residence: wikiblueprint.docdroid.com/KsX8ixy/the-... #wikipedia #glamwiki

A good, hard read: medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Becerra vs. WHO?

This is cool. This is good. #Wikipedia wikiblueprint.docdroid.com/GU4pnW4/wiki...

Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwh... #project2029

"Judaism is an ethical inheritance, a long education in how to live with power while keeping conscience intact, how to carry memory without turning it into harm, and how to affirm, again and again, that human life is sacred beyond calculation." medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

The catastrophe in Gaza is a moral failure, and Judaism itself contains the clearest ethical framework for naming that failure. Rather than debating geopolitics, this essay uses Jewish law, prophetic tradition, and rabbinic reasoning as its evidence. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Judaism has always held both the sanctity of every human life, and the necessity of defense in a violent world. It also insists on a demand that governs all use of force: proportion. When this is abandoned, defense collapses into domination and survival into annihilation. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

You Probably Don't Qualify For a Wikipedia Article: medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #wikipedia #wikimedia

So much winning. Get ready for the people's return to power! project2029.me #resist

Yes... we are proudly growing strong globally!!!

medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #resist