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Back to the future: for a free, open Internet
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the decentralised network Mastodon has become more and more popular. This is an opportunity for the web and for democracy – because it demonstrates that, alongside commercial platforms, there is also a desire for a free, open Internet.
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Curated Commons/picsome: Start of the beta phase!
The beta phase starts! We would like to invite everyone interested to test picsome on their own in a closed beta phase before it goes public.
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Open and Fair! Questions on how to handle digital copies of objects in collections from colonial contexts (Part 1)
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.
Knowledge Equity – How to make Wikimedia more diverse, participatory and equitable
For the Wikimedia movement, the strategic focus of its work until 2030 is on “Knowledge Equity“. The aim is to remove social, political and technical barriers in order to enable everyone to use and create Free Knowledge. But how should this be realized? And what exactly does “Knowledge Equity” mean?
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Get Ready for Wikimania 2021 – and Register NOW!
This year, the annual meeting of the Wikimedia community will take place online on August 13-17th 2021. The theme of the gathering will be 20 years of Wikipedia. The program consists of four tracks, the unconference and on-demand events. We collected some useful information for you.
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Movement Strategy Playbook – Creating a Manual for Global Collaboration
Insights, experiences, and challenges from two years of open strategy – to build our movement’s future.
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Wikipedia – a place for encounters and creativity, diversity and equality
Interview with Wikipedian Nikolina Šepić about her outstanding commitment to Wikipedia and #1lib1ref
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picsome: free licenses facilitate free reuse
The new Wikimedia project makes it easier to find and use images under a free license on the internet. We welcome active participation!
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24 Hours of Open Data – The Wikidata Birthday Meetup
Wikidata celebrated its 8th birthday, and as every year the decentralized birthday celebrations brought together a community from all around the globe. This year, the community experimented with a new format: a 24 hours-long online call with different workshops and talks.
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Wikidata turns eight – An interview with Lydia Pintscher
Happy Birthday, Wikidata! The open knowledge base is turning eight. Since it came into being, the project developed by Wikimedia Deutschland in intensive collaboration with an international community has made enormous progress. In the following interview, Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata product manager, talks about Wikidata’s beginnings, milestones and plans for the future.
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OPEN!NEXT creates new standard for open hardware
OPEN!NEXT is a research project funded by the European Union that researches and promotes open hardware. It is intended to help users and companies to create hardware collaboratively and on the basis of open standards. Wikimedia Deutschland is one of the project partners.
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ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata
The Wikidata community strives to improve the quality of its data and to balance its coverage. The application ProWD is a tool that detects data gaps and imbalances in Wikidata. In the following interview, Nadyah Hani and Refo Ilmiya, who worked on the tool as their final thesis in computer science, explain how ProWD fills the gaps.
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Celtic Knot 2020: Wikimedia’s language conference went digital
In July the online language conference Celtic Knot 2020 took place. Organised by Wikimedia UK and WIkimedia Ireland, and supported by Wikimedia Germany, the conference was a forum for the support of Wikipedias in minority languages. The conference brought together 60 participants who share a passion for language on the Wikimedia projects and the ways in which Wikidata helps strengthen these.
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Visiting Wikimedian 2020 Alice Kibombo
Ah, to be the Visiting Wikimedian! Being in its fifth year, I believe this role has been sufficiently explained by my predecessors so perhaps what remains is to share with you my experience.
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Wikidata weekend: The community meets for virtual hacking
In June, the virtual Wikidata weekend took place where 30 members of the Wikidata community met to get to know Wikidata and support each other in programming with open data. We introduce some of the participants and their projects.
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Wiki Loves Pride – supporting LGBT* content across Wikimedia projects
Wiki Loves Pride! The vision of Wikimedia is a world where every single person can free share in the sum …
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