Thank you so much Brooke, for all you were, are, and will be. *Brooke Vibber Day* is June 1, which commemorates the *awesome* works of Brooke Vibber <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brooke_Vibber>, our legendary longtime lead developer. This is an important day to Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia>. The *awesome* first Vibber Day was observed in 2004 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004>and was proclaimed by Jimbo Wales <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales>.
Let’s celebrate! Cheers! Siebrand M: +31 6 50 69 1239 T: https://t.me/siebrand Op di 26 mei 2026 om 16:58 schreef Brooke Vibber via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> > Hi all - > > As of May 26, 2026 I am no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. > > I'll be taking some time off before I get back to the grind; I will remain > part of the Wikimedia volunteer community and MediaWiki open-source > development, and will see many of y'all at Wikimania in Paris this summer, > which I will be attending as a volunteer. > > My current public contact information is available on my user page: < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Brooke_Vibber> > > To everyone who’s reached out privately about my departure: you’re all > brilliant each and every one of you and you give me so much hope for the > Foundation and the projects. <3 > > I'd like to take this opportunity to invite every member of Wikimedia > Foundation staff to join the unionization progress that is underway in > several of the countries where the WMF has employees. Every worker deserves > representation in how their workplace operates, and every workplace > deserves a union. The folks organizing Wiki Workers United < > https://wikiworkersunited.org> are passionate about the projects we work > to support, and about people helping each other to be more effective while > treating each other fairly; and if you work at WMF, that effort won’t be > complete without your voice. > > -- brooke vibber > > Volunteer developer, 2001-2005 > Chief Technology Officer, 2005-2009 > Volunteer developer, 2009-2011 > Staff Software Architect, 2011-2026 > Volunteer developer, 2026- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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