wikipediasuckscoop

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Slava Ukraini!

[–] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's impractical and unlikely, bordering on impossible. Deletionists have driven a lot of productive contributors out of the projects through shady tactics like "wikilawyering" and gaming the system. You can look at this essay by Gwern to see what I'm talking about.

 

A former employee of Wikipedia’s parent company has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting her direct supervisor for gender discrimination and harassment.

The woman, Kayla Mae, was hired by the Wikimedia Foundation in November 2022, where she worked as a software engineer for nearly two years.

Her role allowed her to work remotely from Texas, and she was assigned to work on a team managed by Dennis Mburugu, a Wikimedia employee based in Kenya.

Within the first few months of her employment, she encountered problems with Mburugu, according to her complaint. Among other things, Mburugu asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity — she is a transgender female — and inquired about her medical history, Mae wrote in the complaint.

[–] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's doesn't mean that the story isn't credible though. Here's a PDF to the court document.

 

A former employee of Wikipedia’s parent company has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting her direct supervisor for gender discrimination and harassment.

The woman, Kayla Mae, was hired by the Wikimedia Foundation in November 2022, where she worked as a software engineer for nearly two years.

Her role allowed her to work remotely from Texas, and she was assigned to work on a team managed by Dennis Mburugu, a Wikimedia employee based in Kenya.

Within the first few months of her employment, she encountered problems with Mburugu, according to her complaint. Among other things, Mburugu asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity — she is a transgender female — and inquired about her medical history, Mae wrote in the complaint.

 

A former employee of Wikipedia’s parent company has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting her direct supervisor for gender discrimination and harassment.

The woman, Kayla Mae, was hired by the Wikimedia Foundation in November 2022, where she worked as a software engineer for nearly two years.

Her role allowed her to work remotely from Texas, and she was assigned to work on a team managed by Dennis Mburugu, a Wikimedia employee based in Kenya.

Within the first few months of her employment, she encountered problems with Mburugu, according to her complaint. Among other things, Mburugu asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity — she is a transgender female — and inquired about her medical history, Mae wrote in the complaint.

[–] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks! Hopefully there's a way to incorporate the conversion tool to the federated encyclopedia's interfaces in the near future.

[–] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ibis really should maintain itself as the competitor to Wikipedia, given recent media attention on systemic issues such as content distortions at Native American history topic area.

 

There was an attempt to import an article from a MediaWiki based site to ibis.wiki however the codes do not show correctly.

Hopefully something is done in order to add Mediawiki code compatibility as part of the feature in future updates.

[–] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cory Doctorow has a word for the phenomenon: enshittification.

 

Nope, before you're jumping the gun by accusing me of spreading Russian propaganda simply because the domain ends in .ru you should know that "The Insider" is a Russian opposition publication like Meduza. Shows a lot how you can't place absolute trust and adulation on any single platform and entity these days otherwise it might lead to this one day.

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