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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.

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[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, this administration isn't going to be much help for her. Feels like this is going to be an uphill battle.

[-] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Either way there should be competitors to Wikipedia. One of the promising projects is ibis.wiki but so far there's no function to integrate Wiki markup yet.

[-] Maxx0r@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Why is that important? Wikipedia is a common good, can't we just fix the problems by working together?

[-] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Maxx0r@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, interesting read!

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

Nutomic, dessalines

great, more projects for me to clean-room 🤦‍♀️

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