In a dialogue with the Brücke-Museum Berlin, we learn about the challenges of digitizing objects with colonial backgrounds and publishing these digitized items. The 4th part of our blog series is a report from the field, and shows how parts of the ethnographic Schmidt-Rottluff collection are made accessible to a broad public thanks to Wikimedia Commons.
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In part 3 of our blog series on colonial collections we feature an expert interview with Andrea Wallace on the legal and ethical issues around digitisation and open data. The restitution process depends on digitisation to achieve transparency, but who should own and make decisions about the digital surrogates and intellectual property produced?
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From August 2022, Franziska Heine and Christian Humborg will lead the non-profit association as joint Executive Directors, with a woman on the association’s Executive Board for the very first time. No other movement combines expertise in free digital software with the expertise needed for an open digital civil society.
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An initiative by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Wikimedia Switzerland wants to help save Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage. And anyone can support from their own laptop. In this interview, the ICOM team talks about the project and the situation in Afghanistan.
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Securing access to cultural heritage is a central concern of Wikimedia - and the digitized copies of collections in museums are one of the prerequisites for free knowledge - for example in Wikipedia. How to handle objects from the colonial past is of particular importance in this context. Part 2 of a series of blog posts.
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For Wikimedia, it is an essential goal to secure access to cultural heritage – and the digital copies in museum collections are among the prerequisites for Free Knowledge in the Wikipedia, for example. How to handle objects from the colonial past is of particular importance in this context. Part 1 of a series of blog posts.
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Insights, experiences, and challenges from two years of open strategy - to build our movement’s future.
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Wiki Loves Pride! The vision of Wikimedia is a world where every single person can free share in the sum …
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Today, the recommendations for the implementation of the 2018 strategic direction of the Wikimedia Movement were published. They are the result of almost two years of intensive work by nine working groups with diverse membership, including several feedback rounds and iterations. This concludes the second phase of the international Wikimedia strategy process "Wikimedia 2030". The recommendations present how the movement should implement the strategic direction in concrete terms.
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Data debates usually only revolve around who can earn money with data and how. Unfortunately, that leaves out a lot of important questions for Free Knowledge: Who should benefit from public data and its processing? How can the protection and preservation of data be ensured? Much more needs to be said about the common good in data policy. We therefore propose a new data metaphor.
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Young software developer Ebba Aniansson spent six months as an intern at WMDE. Now she shares what she learned and experienced.
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Until June 1st 2018, UNESCO invites you to comment on its first draft recommendation to its member states on Open Educational Resources online. Why we are involved and why it matters.
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For many people, Free Knowlege is mostly synonymous with Wikipedia. Worldwide, tens of thousands of people, from volunteer communities to staff, work tirelessly to give even more people more access to more knowlege. At this year's Wikimedia Conference, the annual meeting of the Wikimedia Movement, we interviewed some of them about their commitment to Free Knowlege.
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The Wikimedia Conference is the annual meeting of all Wikimedia organizations to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement. Now we're ready to share the first edition of a program full of varied and participative sessions: The preliminary program has been published on Meta.
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