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Comment by spindump8930

20 hours ago

Commenters in these discussions always confuse wikipedia editors with Wikimedia employees - this is the latter!

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Waterluvian  19 hours ago

Are editors employees in any formal way or are they closer to Reddit moderators? Or editors as in anyone, ie. Reddit posters?

  • tux3  19 hours ago

    Anyone can edit Wikipedia, editors are not employees. Even the admins are not employees.

    (As far as I know you only have to sign any kind of formal documents if you have one of the few roles (as a non-employee) where you may have access to sensitive personal data, which is very few people.)

    • PorciiVorbesc  17 hours ago

      >Anyone can edit Wikipedia

      Hasn't been true in a very long time. Plenty of politically charged articles are locked so that only Wikipedia's editors can edit them, and you can guess which side they're taking. It's not a democracy.

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    • Waterluvian  18 hours ago

      Yeah makes sense. I was wondering if there was special meaning to “editor” that made it non obvious that they wouldn’t be unionized.

mmooss  18 hours ago

The OP talks a lot about volunteers, but doesn't clearly state they are part of the union.