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Community Tech development team disbanded, engineering roles eliminated
[edit]Wikimedia Foundation announcement: meta:Community Wishlist#May 20, 2026: Community Tech becomes a program
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After noticing that having a centralized team was leading to frequent bottlenecks and delays ... we've decided to shift Community Tech into a program that multiple teams are officially responsible for supporting ... disbanding the Community Tech team and the roles of five engineers and one manager.
(emphasis added by The Signpost)
community reactions
Upon reaching its 763rd signature, the Wiki Workers United solidarity petition became the 2nd-most supported proposal or petition ever on the English-language Wikipedia, behind only the 2024 open letter about Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation, which has 1374 signatures.[1]
via watchlist notice meta:Talk:Community Wishlist#Proposed direction for Wishlist; Chief Product and Technology Officer S. Deckelmann has stated they are "in listening mode" to the feedback
Footnotes
- ^ See Wikipedia:Times that 300 or more Wikipedians supported something, sections "Regarding policy" and "Miscellaneous". All entries outside those sections either concern an individual user (permissions requests and elections) or took place on other wikis.
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