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[Meta] Wikimedia Foundation Community Wishlist Team disbanded, engineers laid off
You may be interested to know that yesterday Deputy Chief Product & Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation laid off six Wikimedia Foundation employees who were responsible for the Community Wishlist - a way for volunteer editors to work with the WMF to implement suggestions and features important to the community.
- meta:Community Wishlist#May 20, 2026: Community Tech becomes a program
- meta:Talk:Community Wishlist#May 20 update
- Wikipedia:VPM#WMF Community Tech team has been disbanded, engineers laid off
Interestingly, one of the engineers impacted by the layoffs started the Wiki Workers United unionisation effort earlier this month. Make of that what you will.