Wiki Project Medicine Forms Its Own Tech Team After Wikimedia Foundation Cuts Community Tech
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Jake Orlowitz
Summary
The article discusses the Wikimedia Foundation's decision to lay off Brooke Vibber (the first full-time employee and lead MediaWiki developer) and wind down the Community Tech team. In response, Wiki Project Medicine (a volunteer-driven medical content initiative on Wikipedia) has built its own community tech team to fill the gap and continue developing tools that volunteer editors need. The piece critiques the Foundation's decision and highlights how volunteers are now self-organizing to meet technical needs.
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bskyWiki Project Medicine Forms Its Own Tech Team After Wikimedia Foundation Cuts Community Techmedium.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledBrooke became lead developer of MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia, in early 2003.
She was the first full-time employee the Foundation ever hired and its first Chief Technical Officer.
For more than twenty years she was the person you called when something broke deep in the code.
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