{"id":1011079,"date":"2026-05-30T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011079"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:30:19","slug":"hundreds-of-wikipedia-editors-are-threatening-to-go-on-strike-and-the-reason-is-these-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/hundreds-of-wikipedia-editors-are-threatening-to-go-on-strike-and-the-reason-is-these-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike and the reason is these engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Wikipedia editors are threatening to take major action against the company. These actions may include a potential strike. The threats of collective action reportedly followed the Wikimedia Foundation&#8217;s disbanding of a small team of engineers that many volunteers relied on for technical support and community-requested tools.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by The Verge, the controversy began on May 20 when the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia, announced it was dissolving the Community Tech team, a group consisting of five engineers and one manager. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Wikipedia editors are threatening to take major action against the company. These actions may include a potential strike. The threats of collective action reportedly followed the Wikimedia Foundation&#8217;s disbanding of a small team of engineers that many volunteers relied on for technical support and community-requested tools. According to a report by The Verge, the controversy began on May 20 when the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia, announced it was dissolving the Community Tech team, a group consisting of five engineers and one manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011080,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011079\/revisions\/1011080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}