Re: Brooke's departure from Wikimedia Foundation
Daniel Kinzler via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jun 2026 10:09:35 +0200
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============8885701273493088215== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------dp7hlQ2KSe5EgofSug0s80bm" Content-Language: de-DE, en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------dp7hlQ2KSe5EgofSug0s80bm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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- > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer MediaWiki Engineering Group Wikimedia Foundation --------------dp7hlQ2KSe5EgofSug0s80bm Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> Happy Vibber day, Brooke!<br> <br> I hope we can have that beer soon, I'm buying :)<br> <br> -- daniel<br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 26.05.26 um 17:14 schrieb Siebrand Mazeland via Wikitech-l:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAEUK8qpDtdwCLdFDEt1GbDJG+uj5ohj8a+hMwC9nWXm-3WR=nQ@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="auto">Thank you so much Brooke, for all you were, are, and will be.</div> <div dir="auto"><br> </div> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto" style="font-size:inherit"><b style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Brooke Vibber Day</b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important"> is June 1, which commemorates the </span><b style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">awesome</b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important"> works of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brooke_Vibber" style="border-radius:2px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">Brooke Vibber</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">, our legendary longtime lead developer. This is an important day to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" style="border-radius:2px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">Wikipedia</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">. The </span><b style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">awesome</b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important"> first Vibber Day was observed in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004" style="border-radius:2px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">2004</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">and was proclaimed by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales" style="border-radius:2px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">Jimbo Wales</a>.<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",roboto,inter,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important"></span></div> <div dir="auto" style="font-size:inherit"><br> </div> <div dir="auto" style="font-size:inherit">Let’s celebrate!</div> <div dir="auto" style="font-size:inherit"><br> </div> <div dir="auto" style="font-size:inherit">Cheers!</div> <br> </div> <div><br clear="all"> <div> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div dir="ltr">Siebrand<br> <br> M: +31 6 50 69 1239</div> <div>T: <a href="https://t.me/siebrand" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://t.me/siebrand</a><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><br> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op di 26 mei 2026 om 16:58 schreef Brooke Vibber via Wikitech-l <<a href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>><br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">Hi all -<br> <br> As of May 26, 2026 I am no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> My current public contact information is available on my user page: <<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Brooke_Vibber" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Brooke_Vibber</a>><br> <br> 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<br> <br> 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 <<a href="https://wikiworkersunited.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wikiworkersunited.org</a>> 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.<br> <br> -- brooke vibber<br> <br> Volunteer developer, 2001-2005<br> Chief Technology Officer, 2005-2009<br> Volunteer developer, 2009-2011<br> Staff Software Architect, 2011-2026<br> Volunteer developer, 2026-<br> <br> </div> _______________________________________________<br> Wikitech-l mailing list -- <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a><br> To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a><br> <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/</a></blockquote> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">_______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> To unsubscribe send an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/">https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/</a></pre> </blockquote> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">-- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer MediaWiki Engineering Group Wikimedia Foundation</pre> <br> </body> </html> --------------dp7hlQ2KSe5EgofSug0s80bm-- --===============8885701273493088215== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ 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/ --===============8885701273493088215==--