• hanke@feddit.nu
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    13 hours ago

    Should make for a spicy secion on wikipedias own history page, eh?

    • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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      12 hours ago

      Not too spicy, but they at least acknowledge it.

      On 27 July, WMF declined to voluntarily recognize the US union. WMF stated that the union would need to pursue a formal NLRB election procedure. 404 Media viewed the WMF’s 27 July statement as using “very carefully-worded language common among companies and organizations that have fought against unionization”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_unions

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    10 hours ago

    I might be mistaken, but aren’t Wikipedia’s origins in objectivism? It would make sense if so for the foundation to oppose a trade union (in no way am I saying they are in the right though).

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      4 hours ago

      Uh, what? The Ayn Rand garbage philosophy? I’ve never heard that and don’t see how that jibes with a free, crowd sourced encyclopedia…

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        2 hours ago

        Jimmy Wales is an objectivist- he moderated online forums related to Ayn Rand before he started Nupedia and Wikipedia.