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.
welp guess they’re not getting my donation this year
edit: this source looked very sus to me so I had to look up a more reliable one. Seems more legit at the MSN version.
A former employee is making allegations. Whether they are accurate or truthful was not discussed in either article. What do you know about the merits of this suit other than what you read about the plaintiff’s filing?
Personally i wait and see how the institution responds and make my assessment then. Cool heads and all that.
There is a tendancy on the left to become reactionary - spot one bad actor and ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’ by personally blacklisting a whole attached group.
While that might feel good and have some short term positive feedback with upvotes on a social post, its also great for the right wing too. They just have to highlight a single problematic incident and watch as their enemy platform/org/service is abandoned by leftist puritans. The same does not happen for right wing groups, as their users are far less likely to baulk over one or two issues, so they don’t even need to worry about this attack method being turned inward - no blowback.
Yeah I definitely want to see how they respond
Also worth noting that Wikipedia and Archive.org are under constant attack by right wing extremists.
So it’s way more likely that’s what’s going on.
Also most of these smear stories from troll farms get follow up comments in the threads they get posted in similar to this one.
yeahhh, on second glance… OP’s username leans towards trolling
It’s a copy of the exact same article by the exact same author.
Why would you discourage using the original source?
And why do you find a copied article more legit? Especially considering it doesn’t have the info about the author the original has.Well, we all know you’re anti-lgbt, regardless of the alleged incident.
We all know you didn’t think before you typed, regardless of the incident. Anyone can make allegations, we have to wait to find out if they are true, that’s the burden of civilization. Or at least how it’s supposed to work.
They’ve made anti-lgbt comments before. I thought about how they aren’t commenting on this for any other reason.
I gave them a quick scroll through. I didn’t see anything overtly anti-lgbt. Have any sources?
It’s subtle, but there.
It’s subtle because it’s in your head.
Oof, that’s a comment in terrible taste.
msn has that name recognition. never heard of the other people.
But MSN is not a source, it’s just collecting things from other places, there is zero quality assurance from being on MSN.
On the original source you can read about the author. And the site seem pretty legit to me.
