Hello, and nice to meet you! 👋 We are the Global Advocacy team at the Wikimedia Foundation: a mix of regional policy and human rights, anti-disinformation, communications, and community-organizing experts. Our mission is to help reach the Foundation's vision of a world where everyone, everywhere, can safely create and share knowledge without fear of consequence or barriers to access. 🌐 In this space, we will share our work to promote and protect public policies, laws, and regulations that support the right to access free and open, reliable and accurate knowledge. Get to know our team: https://w.wiki/AxLu! We look forward to seeing you around!
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We advocate public policy that promotes free and open knowledge for everyone, everywhere.
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We are the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team. We advocate public policy that promotes free and open knowledge for everyone, everywhere. Learn more: https://wikimediafoundation.org/advocacy/
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🌍🛡️ Free knowledge has a fierce protector: the Global Advocacy team. Every day, laws and regulations shape how we access and share knowledge online. The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team works to protect free knowledge by promoting policies that uphold human rights, privacy, and freedom of expression. This team of 11 people, spanning six countries and speaking 10 languages, collaborates with governments, civil society, and digital rights organizations to ensure Wikimedia projects remain open, accessible, and community-driven. Their work helps safeguard the right to knowledge, so Wikimedians can contribute freely and readers can access information without barriers. Learn more about the Global Advocacy team: ✏️ Read a blog post about their work ➡️ https://w.wiki/AxLu 📌 Follow monthly recaps ➡️ https://w.wiki/D2Yu 🏆 Sign up for their newsletter ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gUhjKGWY Follow them on Linkedin ➡️ Wikimedia Foundation Policy
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Heading to Taipei for RightsCon or joining online? Don't miss our fabulous Wikimedia Foundation team and Wikimedians from around the world. In addition to multiple sessions, we are hosting a booth at the Community Village for the first time. If you are there in person be sure to drop by! https://lnkd.in/gBQ_ds2p
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Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation and volunteers will be at RightsCon, talking about open knowledge, cultural preservation, and linguistic diversity. Join our sessions, several with our partners, and if you are there in person, come visit our booth and say hello! 👋
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The public domain, digital commons, and digital public goods enrichen human knowledge and culture, and can help advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) worldwide. 🌍🌐🌏🌐🌎 Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia volunteer communities are working in partnership with international institutions, governments, and allied organizations around the world to advance a positive vision of the future of the internet that serves the public interest. 🔍🙌
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Wikimedia Brasil is now an official Wikimedia chapter 🎉 What started over a decade ago with six passionate volunteers across Brazil has grown into a thriving community shaping the future of open knowledge. Now as a chapter, Wikimedia Brasil – previously known as Wiki Movimento Brasil – gains more resources and structure to strengthen its ability to champion free knowledge in the country. Wikimedia chapters are independent nonprofit organizations working to support and contribute to the Wikimedia movement in a specified geographical region. With its headquarters in São Paulo, Wikimedia Brasil joins 37 other recognized Wikimedia chapters worldwide, becoming the most recent addition to this global network. This milestone is a commitment to empowering local communities and ensuring free knowledge reaches every corner of Brazil. As they look ahead, Wikimedia Brasil continues to promote a movement rooted in collaboration, community-driven growth, and equity. Parabéns, Wikimedia Brasil 🇧🇷💙 Learn more about this achievement ➡️ https://w.wiki/D4RL
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Thanks to our amazing community of volunteers, global affiliates, and Wikimedia Foundation colleagues, Wikipedia is now officially listed in the public register maintained by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a Digital Public Good. https://lnkd.in/gjFjEQsh
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Wikipedia editors are making the internet better for everyone ✨🌐 Wikipedia has officially been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), an initiative endorsed by the United Nations that maintains a registry of open source-software, data, AI models, standards, and content created for the public interest. This recognition highlights Wikipedia's unique role in advancing access to free and trusted knowledge, powered by a global community of nearly 260,000 volunteers in over 300 languages. The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to continue working with the UN and other international institutions, governments, and civil society partners to ensure that digital public goods like Wikipedia are protected, supported, and accessible to all. Read more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dDWkKzT5
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“Anyone who defends free speech and democracy should wish for Wikipedia to survive and remain independent. Against the backdrop of a degraded web, the improbable success of a volunteer-run website attempting to gather all the world’s knowledge is something to celebrate, not destroy.” — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic For more, read: https://lnkd.in/eKYcETnW
A recent target in Elon Musk’s long and eminently tweetable list of grievances: the existence of the world’s most famous encyclopedia, Lila Shroff writes. https://lnkd.in/eKYcETnW “In recent months, he has repeatedly attempted to delegitimize Wikipedia, suggesting on X that it is ‘controlled by far-left activists’ and calling for his followers to ‘stop donating to Wokepedia,’” Shroff writes. One of Musk’s latest online outbursts was related to his own Wikipedia page, which described the Sieg heil–ish arm movement he’d made during an Inauguration Day speech. “Musk twice extended his right arm towards the crowd in an upward angle,” the entry read. Shroff notes, “There was little to be upset about; the Wikipedia page didn’t accuse Musk of making a Sieg heil salute. But that didn’t seem to matter to Musk.” “Wikipedia is certainly not immune to bad information, disagreement, or political warfare, but its openness and transparency rules have made it a remarkably reliable platform in a decidedly unreliable age,” Shroff writes. “Evidence that it’s an outright propaganda arm of the left, or of any political party, is thin.” Research has shown that diversity among Wikipedia’s editors makes information on the site less biased, a spokesperson told Shroff. “For the anti-Wikipedia contingent, however, such efforts are evidence that the site has been taken over by the left,” Shroff writes. “The fact that Musk, in his most recent tirade against Wikipedia, didn’t point to any specific errors in the entry about his inauguration gesture is telling,” Shorff writes. “The fundamental issue he and others in his circle have with Wikipedia seems to be more about control.” Musk has turned X into his “personal megaphone,” she continues. “Through Starlink, his satellite-internet company, Musk quite literally governs some people’s access to the web … One thing Musk does not control is Wikipedia.” “Anyone who defends free speech and democracy should wish for Wikipedia to survive and remain independent,’ Shroff continues. “Against the backdrop of a degraded web, the improbable success of a volunteer-run website attempting to gather all the world’s knowledge is something to celebrate, not destroy.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eKYcETnW 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.
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🔍 Will you be attending, hosting and/or watching RightsCon 2025 sessions next month? This year, there will be an expanded presence of Wikimedia project volunteers, who will promote cultural preservation and knowledge diversity. 🥳 In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation will host a booth for the first time, where we want to crowdsource your expertise for the "Wikipedia Test"—a policy analysis tool that can help advocate technology regulation that puts the public interest first! 🌐💪🏾