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.
Oh god. Now Lemmy is going to be badmouthing Wikipedia until the end of time. Get ready guys!
Yeah this and their bs donation begging despite having millions is why I don’t donate any more. Not reactionary either, like just fuck Wikimedia. I contributed hours of work to construct things that would not be there without me, with no pay, and it infuriates me how much shit they do.
welp guess they’re not getting my donation this year
edit: this source looked very sus to me so I had to look up a more reliable one. Seems more legit at the MSN version.
Personally i wait and see how the institution responds and make my assessment then. Cool heads and all that.
There is a tendancy on the left to become reactionary - spot one bad actor and ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’ by personally blacklisting a whole attached group.
While that might feel good and have some short term positive feedback with upvotes on a social post, its also great for the right wing too. They just have to highlight a single problematic incident and watch as their enemy platform/org/service is abandoned by leftist puritans. The same does not happen for right wing groups, as their users are far less likely to baulk over one or two issues, so they don’t even need to worry about this attack method being turned inward - no blowback.
Yeah I definitely want to see how they respond
Also worth noting that Wikipedia and Archive.org are under constant attack by right wing extremists.
So it’s way more likely that’s what’s going on.
Also most of these smear stories from troll farms get follow up comments in the threads they get posted in similar to this one.
yeahhh, on second glance… OP’s username leans towards trolling
A former employee is making allegations. Whether they are accurate or truthful was not discussed in either article. What do you know about the merits of this suit other than what you read about the plaintiff’s filing?
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.msn has that name recognition. never heard of the other people.
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.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.
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.
Well, we all know you’re anti-lgbt, regardless of the alleged incident.
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.You’re just upset you got busted, and someone else agreed. So, not in my head sweetie.
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.
They’ve made anti-lgbt comments before. I thought about how they aren’t commenting on this for any other reason.
I gave them a quick scroll through. I didn’t see anything overtly anti-lgbt. Have any sources?
It’s subtle, but there.
It’s subtle because it’s in your head.
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.
Oof, that’s a comment in terrible taste.
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Don’t extrapolate because if one bad actor. Would you stop funding the ACLU if this story happened there?
It would certainly make me pause until they explained themselves
If true, I never donated to Wikipedia before anyhow.
