The former worker says the Wikimedia Foundation ended her employment after she complained about her boss' alleged abuse.

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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    3 天前

    It’s a copy of the exact same article by the exact same author.
    Why would you discourage using the original source?
    And why do you find a copied article more legit? Especially considering it doesn’t have the info about the author the original has.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 天前

        But MSN is not a source, it’s just collecting things from other places, there is zero quality assurance from being on MSN.
        On the original source you can read about the author. And the site seem pretty legit to me.

        • transscribe7891@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 天前

          I wouldn’t say MSN isn’t a source but I see what you mean about the author info at the bottom. Looks like I also missed the part at the top of the MSN link that said it was originally posted at TheDesk, so I guess it is legit. I’d only searched up other sources just to cross-check the original to see if more than one outlet was talking about it and check its validity, so either way yeah it checks out.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 天前

            Searching other sources is absolutely a great idea, also because this doesn’t sound like how Wikipedia would normally behave.
            But considering MSN is a copy of the original, I wouldn’t consider it another source in this case.
            But that’s probably because you rushed it a bit. If you had found a true 2nd source, that would have been stellar.

    • blakenongEnglish
      121·
      3 天前

      Well, we all know you’re anti-lgbt, regardless of the alleged incident.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 天前

        Oh boy, you have no idea how moronic that comment is. You can browse my entire history, and I’ve been posting here daily for 2 years. And I guarantee you won’t be able to find a single anti LGBT comment made by me.
        If your comment wasn’t so laughably stupid, I’d find it offensive.

        • blakenongEnglish
          13·
          2 天前

          You’re just upset you got busted, and someone else agreed. So, not in my head sweetie.

      • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        3 天前

        We all know you didn’t think before you typed, regardless of the incident. Anyone can make allegations, we have to wait to find out if they are true, that’s the burden of civilization. Or at least how it’s supposed to work.

        • blakenongEnglish
          58·
          3 天前

          They’ve made anti-lgbt comments before. I thought about how they aren’t commenting on this for any other reason.

          • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            3 天前

            I gave them a quick scroll through. I didn’t see anything overtly anti-lgbt. Have any sources?

              • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                71·
                3 天前

                Oh boy:

                If you’re not a heterosexual rich white male, you feel the problems.

                This was your own comment I responded to, So clearly you think it’s important to your position yourself.
                You used it in a couple of comments as you thought it was somehow a defense for your position.

                Tell me how you don’t like gay people.

                That was your response, and notice how that comment ended the discussion. Because it was too stupid to respond to.

                I don’t care if you are gay or not, but clearly it’s an issue to you.

                • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  61·
                  3 天前

                  If you’re not a heterosexual rich white male, you feel the problems.

                  Why? This is what I responded to, look at the context. He also insinuated in earlier comments that him being in a same sex marriage somehow supported his argument? Arguing about living in a state that allow same sex marriage was a “feature” of USA, where the obvious problem is the states that don’t.
                  And please notice that that comment ended the discussion. Because it was so stupid I didn’t care to respond to that.

                  I don’t care if people are gay or not, but clearly it’s an issue to u/blakenong.
                  IDK why he interpreted it as an anti gay comment, when clearly by his own admission, it was a strong influence on him.

                  • blakenongEnglish
                    15·
                    2 天前

                    Look at you tripping all over yourself trying to defend your sensitive white heterosexual male feelings. The problem with people like you is that you are incapable of understanding anything outside of yourself because you’ve never had to face any real challenges in life. Then you go off and mock other people as if you’re somehow superior because of what you were born with but never earned.