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Wikimedia Foundation U.S. Staff Vote to Unionize with CWA Local 9415

U.S.-based employees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, voted decisively to unionize under Communications Workers of America Local 9415. The election, overseen by the National Labor Relations Board, followed a July push for recognition after a supermajority of workers signed union cards, a request management initially declined to honor voluntarily. The vote is part of the broader Wiki Workers United campaign spanning multiple countries where Wikimedia staff work.

Gwern revisits Project Xanadu's collapse at a 50th-anniversary gathering for Ted Nelson's manifesto

At a San Francisco party marking 50 years since Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines, attendees examined memorabilia and vintage machines running old Xanadu hypertext software, with a former Autodesk-era Xanadu programmer sharing firsthand stories. The event became an occasion for reflecting on why Xanadu, despite its influential vision of hypermedia, never became a practical, widely used system.