💪 Protect our archives!
Physical and digital records serve critical roles in society by preserving our history and culture. 🏛️
🌐 The Wayback Machine helps to archive the history of the web, which is critical for @wikipedia.org: without it, link rot erodes the verifiability of information online.
A banner image for the OpenUK and OpenHQ high-level discussion panel titled "Building Resilience and Breaking Dependency in Enterprise and Public Sector AI – How Can Open Source Support This?," which will be held on 18 February, from 10:30AM to 11:25AM, in room 15 of the Bharat Mandapam convention center in New Delhi
“Open knowledge, collaborative and transparent, is essential for trustworthy, inclusive AI.”
@wikimediafoundation.org will join #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, will share how open source can strengthen AI in the public interest.
For more: medium.com/wikimedia-po...
🗣️🌐🇺🇳 A milestone moment!
@wikimediafoundation.org addressed the UN General Assembly at #WSIS20 last December.
We advocated placing digital public goods—key to an open internet—at the heart of global digital governance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lZW...
Learn more at: medium.com/wikimedia-po...
Public interest journalism and open knowledge are indivisible, challenged by AI-powered platforms that extract content without compensation or attribution.
@wikimediafoundation.org supported @internetlab.bsky.social's report to find 3 joint solutions:
medium.com/wikimedia-po... Read and join us!
Text says: For 25 years, people everywhere have built something bigger than any one of us: free knowledge for all.
Across 300+ languages, volunteers have written and refined over 65 million articles, helping readers find context, learn, and understand the world.
Here’s to 25 years of free knowledge, built by a volunteer community for everyone ➡️ 25.wikipedia.org
#Wikipedia25
At the top, a participant of the Mascara Festival smiles while wearing traditional attire. In the bottom, people smiling and dancing during the Sandurot Festival. Text says: Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia!
Twenty-five years ago, Wikipedia was an unlikely idea: a place where anyone could share free knowledge.
Today, it’s one of the most visited sites on Earth, not powered by corporate ads, but by people.
Jan Gerlach, Public Policy Director at the Wikimedia Foundation, talks to the audience from the stage at the General Assembly hall. Text says: Our first time speaking at the United Nations General Assembly hall. In a landmark moment, the Wikimedia Foundation was invited to discuss digital governance and internet policy.
It's a big milestone for free knowledge! 🎉
The Wikimedia Foundation spoke at the UN General Assembly Hall, representing Wikipedia’s volunteer community.
We showed that the future of the internet and sustainable development depend on protecting public spaces online and the people who build them.
How can the UN Global Principles for Information Integrity help ensure trustworthy information and support for human rights, democracy, and sustainable development online? 🌐✊🗳️♻️
Today at 11:45 AM ET, watch the live broadcast of the #WSIS+20 side event: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a...
How do we protect common online spaces and public interest, community-led projects? How do we make them thrive? 🌐 🌍 🌏 🌎
Today at 4:45 PM Eastern Time, watch the live broadcast of our #WSIS+20 side event, "Building the commons: creating and maintaining digital public goods": lnkd.in/e74p36xN
Agreed, @isoclive.bsky.social. Here is the link for the live broadcast: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15...
🌐 Upcoming Session | Building the Commons: Creating & Maintaining Digital Public Goods
🗓️ 16 Dec, 4:45–6pm ET
📍 CR4, UNHQ
Explore how collaborative governance can co-create & scale technologies for inclusive, rights-based digital transformation.
🔗 www.un.org/digital-emer...
📚 The material stems from a workshop held in partnership with Momentum – Journalism and Tech Task Force and brings together reflections and proposals to strengthen transparency, access to information, and plurality.
internetlab.org.br/en/pesquisa-...
📰🌐 With support from @wikimediafoundation.org, we’re launching the report “Transforming Information into Democracy”, which explores the connections between open knowledge and public-interest journalism.
Wikidataians celebrate Wikidata being recognised as a Digital Public Good
Every day, thousands of editors on #Wikidata provide open, reliable and trustworthy data to the world helping make technology more open and inclusive.
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.
#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.
Overlay of the number 13 in red and blue, with green stripes blending them into a single abstract composition. Text says: Happy anniversary, Wikidata! Happy 13th birthday to Wikidata, a free, collaborative, and multilingual database helping power Wikimedia projects.
Happy 13th birthday, Wikidata!
Facts do not live in isolation; they form a web of connections that shape understanding. Thirteen years ago, Wikidata was created to store and link facts across Wikipedia and its sister projects. ➡️ w.wiki/Jg
Ilse Falls in the Harz National Park, Germany. Text says: Wikidata is now the second Wikimedia project recognized as a digital public good.
Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) 🎉
Learn how Wikidata, which houses over 1.6 billion facts, advances education, innovation, and public institutions ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/10...
We've joined a global call for open, equitable access to cultural heritage in the digital age!
By signing the Open Heritage Statement, we stand with partners worldwide to make cultural heritage freely accessible and reusable for all: medium.com/wikimedia-po...
#TAROCHCoalition #CreativeCommons
Proud @costanzasciubba.bsky.social will represent us at @weforum.org's Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity 2025, addressing information integrity—essential to ensuring reliable free and open knowledge online.
For details: wef.ch/amgfcc25
#AMGFCC25 #InformationIntegrity
We’re proud to stand with memory institutions worldwide for digital rights.
Collaborations like GLAM-Wiki and Wikimedian in Residence programs show how we can preserve and expand open access to free knowledge and cultural heritage together, today and tomorrow!
#ProtectOurFutureMemory
Los derechos humanos deben guiar la transformación digital en las Américas.🌎
Desde la sociedad civil, pedimos tecnología abierta, responsable y centrada en personas.
Conoce nuestras recomendaciones para la X Cumbre de las Américas y súmate al cambio: www.derechosdigitales.org/recursos/apo...
People first! 👥 Human-centered AI powers Wikimedia’s model: community-led and public interest.
We shared with human rights experts how AI brings risks and opportunities for freedom of speech and reliable information online.
Read more: medium.com/wikimedia-po...
#AI #FreeSpeech #HumanRights
At #DRAPAC25, Wikimedians will join civil society, policymakers, and technologists to reimagine digital rights, AI governance, and open knowledge in Southeast Asia. 🌏📚
We'll lead sessions on #ASEAN human rights and digital policy agendas, and more!
Come join us: medium.com/wikimedia-po... 📎
Remember! Not all internet platforms are Big Tech! Regulators should not treat Wikipedia the same as large corporate platforms that monetize users' identities and activities.
🌐 Not all platforms are Big Tech.
Treating public interest ones like Wikipedia the same as ad-driven platforms is damaging.
Read @britocruz.bsky.social to understand why regulation must be nuanced in order to protect diversity and uphold the public interest.
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Exterior of the Clock Tower building. Text says: Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to UK's Online Safety Act regulations reaches the High Court of Justice.
Next week, the Court will hear our challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act Categorization Regulations, which endanger Wikipedia and the global community of volunteer contributors who create the information on the site.
Read more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/07...
A mirrored building, with a flag on top and scattered clouds in the background. Text says: For the fifth time, China blocked the Wikimedia Foundation as observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Once again, our application for observer status at WIPO, the UN agency for intellectual property, was blocked by China. This veto excludes a global community of 260,000 contributors and billions of readers from decisions that directly affect them.
Read more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/07...
An image promoting the Edit-A-Thon at UN Tech Over, which will be held on 15 June 2025, between 10AM and 6PM EST in person at UN Open Source Week
Calling all policymakers, engineers, and open source builders for UN Tech Over during UN Open Source Week!
📍 UN HQ, NYC | 16 June
🔹 Edit-A-Thon – UN history with @wikimediafoundation.org
🔗 Register now: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
#UNOpenSourceWeek #OpenSource @unodet.bsky.social
Calling technologists, engineers & builders for UN Tech Over during #UNOpenSourceWeek!
📍UNHQ, NYC | 16–17 June
🔹Ahead of the Storm: climate hackathon
🔹Edit-A-Thon: UN history w/ Wikimedia
🔹Maintain-A-Thon: open infrastructure
🔗 Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
#UNOICT
Junto com a @wmnobrasil.bsky.social, expressamos nosso apoio ao modelo multissetorial do #CGIbr! 🇧🇷
Essencial para uma internet aberta, direitos e conhecimento livre. Cuidado com o Projeto de Lei nº 4557/24. Aguardamos com expectativa sua discussão transparente.
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