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New comment by throw93949444 in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:36:57 +0000

Just link original author, and do notndestroy their work, even copyleft license wikipedia uses demands that!

New comment by throw93949444 in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:33:20 +0000

Social media is different from wikipedia. If i write my opinions here, it is not an opinion of ycombinator. If I write stuff on wikipedia, it is opinion of wikipedia and there is rigorous editorial process, to get my stuff published...

Also here my name is right next to the text, not in wikipedia!

Platform vs publisher...

New comment by throw93949444 in "You can't unit test for taste"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:11:35 +0000

> For example, my native Iceland had a nice mix of nature, historical sites and populated places.

You absolutely can unit test for taste, just put an agent into loop, and write into prompt what you like. Then do scoring...

Iceland is really bad example, it basically has one populated site (capital) and circular road that goes around the island.

New comment by throw93949444 in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:50:50 +0000

The only legal way to waive copyright rights, is to hire an employee to produce the work. Individual contributors are not cogs in a machine, employees are!

And if someone produced work for 15 years, and edited 10000 articles... very hard to argue it is not permanent worker!

Wikipedia can easily work as "marketplace of ideas", linking original authors. That is not possible if you have editorial policy, political opinions and work like a corporation or a news paper.

New comment by throw93949444 in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:41:11 +0000

In germany and poland.

Yes, you pay income taxes (and insurances) on all membership fees like gym (about 50%). If you put money into union, and union pays your gym fees, you save tons of money.

But there is tons of legal bs around unions. You need to structure it, like you are promoting socialism, and only reason to go into gym, is to smash capitalism!

New comment by throw93949444 in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:13:19 +0000

There is like 50 page agreement, you even have to give up your copyright rights! The only way to do it legally in my country, is to hire editor as an employee!!! (Contractors can not legally give up copyright to their work)

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Terms_of_Use

New comment by throw93949444 in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:06:35 +0000

In EU I would form union even at 3 person company. There are all sorts of tax benefits. Union fees are usually exempt from tax and social and health insurance. In my country we make dinner (yearly union meeting), produce meeting notes and get about 50 euro per employee. Union also organizes trips for families, tax free...

Worth asking AI about local lawx...

New comment by throw93949444 in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

throw93949444 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:21:26 +0000

Seems like a loophole not to employ people. "Editor" sounds like a job title! There is code of conduct, all sort of paperwork, you have to deal with comitees, editorial process... There is non disclosure agreement, you are not allowed to discus internal stuff with people outside from company... wery far from "i seen something was wrong, so i just made quick edit"!

Smells like proper job to me!

We closed the same loophole with uber and doordash employees. Wikimedia should employ its editors!!!