Happy Vibber day, Brooke!
I hope we can have that beer soon, I'm buying :)
-- daniel
Am 26.05.26 um 17:14 schrieb Siebrand Mazeland via Wikitech-l:
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-
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