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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.

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[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting read but got to call out one part that made me think this reporter is at least partially nonsense:

Mburugu did not respond to an e-mail sent late Wednesday evening.

This article was published on Thursday. Late Wednesday night is most likely midnight or later in Kenya. Essentially the author gave zero time to reply.

[-] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago

That's doesn't mean that the story isn't credible though. Here's a PDF to the court document.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

yeah but its still a dick move by the publisher.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Still raises a lot of eyebrows.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't say that's what it meant.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

OP is on a crusade against Wikipedia.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Why are you posting this everywhere you possibly can?

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This article also confirms for me that it is pointless to donate to Wikipedia. Most of these donations go to non-Wikipedia activities.

I do love the Wikipedia software though. Run multiple instances.

Why is your username Wikipedia sucks lol?

[-] shiroininja@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am wary of it. This and the propaganda against Bernie lately makes me think this is more fuckery to get the left to turn on things it likes. Don’t forget Trump and his ilk recently threatened Wikipedia because it was allowing information they don’t like and for DEI.

And digging deep into the accounts history has proven my point

[-] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Group of far right extremists bent on undermining Wikipedia because it tells the truth about history.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah I see they're banned a lot!

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Who else hates Wikipedia? Seriously.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Only person I’ve ever met that disliked Wikipedia is Charles Muller

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, this administration isn't going to be much help for her. Feels like this is going to be an uphill battle.

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