wiki workers united!

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Woah, this is a huge victory! That’s awesome!!!

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• itrealgood@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yes

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s no need. They have enough money to run Wikipedia for many many decades.

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    • terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As of June 30, 2025, the Foundation’s net assets were $296.6 million, which represents 17.1 months of operating expenses

      lol not decades and mostly donations

      Revenue: The Foundation’s total revenue increased by $23.2 million, to $208.6 million during fiscal year 2024-2025. The vast majority of this revenue came from donations (including grants from the Endowment), as well as investment income, Wikimedia Enterprise revenue, and other revenue primarily related to a cost sharing agreement with the Wikimedia Endowment, which, to keep the Endowment’s costs down, allows the Endowment to leverage staffing and other resources from the Foundation and reimburse the Foundation for this usage. Donation revenue increased $14.8 million, from $174.7 million to $189.5 million.

      How much do you think payroll is? Major layoffs would likely begin in a year if people stopped donating i’d imagine.

      Expenses: Our expenses totaled $190.9 million, of which 77.4% went to programmatic activities

      That includes their data centers engineering and security payroll from what I read. The bulk of expenses is literally just to run the application smoothly, and keep these employees paid.

      The only way to make their funds lasts decades would be to shut down a ton of shit and lay off employees, which would not be something anyone wants.

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    • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      [citation needed]

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• nodiratime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [union needed]

  Nice

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• thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  hurrah!

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• cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Great! I wish there were more tech unionization efforts like this in Canada, not that I imagine any such efforts would be able to make any progress at my regressive, toxic, American-owned, boomer-run employer within my lifetime. But maybe I’d be able to eventually find a new job at a union shop somewhere. I’m not holding my breath. Is there anything a senior-level peon like me can do to support these kind of things without trying to convince me there is any realistic hope of my current evil empire workplace ever unionizing?

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  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A rising tide lifts all boats, is the way I see it. Often places that unionize are where the conditions are the shittiest. My impression is that workers are generally faring better in Canada than they are in the US, but workplaces unionising can have ripple effects even on the international level.

    My favourite example of this is something I learned from the Data Workers Iniative which supports research from countries like Kenya, Venezuela, Syria and more. Whilst there’s some harrowing stuff documented by workers in this project, there’s also plenty of good news about workers organising.

    For instance, data workers in Kenya contracted to the company Sama were being horrifically exploited in their data labelling work for tech giants like Meta. This led to the formation of the African Content Moderator’s Union, which had impact far beyond Kenya. For instance, when Sama began to open more offices in other African countries, there was much more active worker resistance straight away because of this precedent.

    It’s very much a case of “none of us are free until all of us are free”, and I think that in many cases, our own battles are going to rely on workers organising many many miles away from us. In the meantime, we just have to do what we can to help both the local fight, and the wider fight.

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• farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck yeah! Solidarity!

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• Shanmugha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Inspiring to see. Well done!

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• MoffKalast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  TIL there are people being paid to write wikipedia articles.

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  • Slashme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    These are not the people writing the articles - that’s you and me. The people who work for the WMF are server admins, programmers, HR people, fundraisers, lawyers, lobbyists, finance people, etc.

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  • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it’s more like engineers and accountants and such:

    We are the people who do the work to provide a platform, services, and support that enable the Wikimedia communities to create and share Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects with the world.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s the server maintaineers. Also wikipedia writes textbooks too.

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• Alexfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Congrats! This is how it should be if people voted based on what really will benefit them, data-backed and all that, and prevents the excuses so many have about lazy workers won’t get fired in unions or whatever they use as excuses to go along with their team’s wide stance.

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• AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  let’s go!! this makes me incredibly happy to see

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