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Who owns MDN? I thought it was disbanded by Mozilla few years ago.

The team was disbanded a few years ago, which led to the creation of Open Web Docs (I think it is charity, the website: https://openwebdocs.org/ ) where several former editors are still maintaining MDN content. It looks like Mozilla has rebuilt a team of developers though and is trying to extract money from MDN (ads, AI, …), though they don't contribute significantly to the content nowaday.

It is now maintained by this club, I think: https://openwebdocs.org

FWIW, OWD writes open source technical content and is not responsible for the design of MDN nor the blog, ads, or login and membership features of the site. That is done by Mozilla.

The OWD team writes technical documentation on APIs, HTML, and JS. OWD also works on information architecture and browser compatibility data. They contribute mainly to https://github.com/mdn/content/ and https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/.

Mozilla, not OWD, is responsible for Yari, the platform behind MDN Web Docs (https://github.com/mdn/yari). The MDN blog, ads, AI and design, the MDN infrastructure, are fully owned and controlled by Mozilla.

I know some folks who work on this content and TBH it’s the folks we’d want working on this content.

No, these people write only docs. Mozilla seems to have rebuilt a dev team, after they disbanded the MDN team a couple of years ago, with the goal to extract money from the community work.

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