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Wikimania 2024: call for submissions open!

by EU Policy Team
March 25, 2024

Wikimania Singapore 2023 - Opening reception by Pedro J Pacheco under CC BY SA 4.0 source: Wikimedia Commons

The great celebration of everything Wikimedia will take place in Katowice, Poland, August 7-10 . Wikimedia Europe was asked to curate the track on Legal and Advocacy, which we are happy to support. As Wikimania 2024 gathers under the topic of the Collaboration of Open, we present under your consideration some ideas on how to align with this message.

You can submit a session proposal for Wikimania 2024 here.

Food for thought

In this time of global conflict, disinformation and digital authoritarianism, the Wikimedia movement offers a model for decentralised, grassroots governance of free knowledge. Our movement empowers communities to exercise their right to access knowledge, and to advance other fundamental human rights. The Wikimedia model offers inspiration on how to create connections between people of various backgrounds, cultures and beliefs.

by Dimi Dimitrov
June 4, 2021June 21, 2021

Wikimedia organizational and user rights hierarchy, under CC0 1.0

In the second half of 2020 the Wikimedia Foundation received 380 requests for content alteration and takedown. Two were granted. This is because our communities do an outstanding job in moderating the sites. Something the Digital Services Act negotiators should probably have in mind.

See the organisational chart in full here

Wikipedia is a top 10 website globally anyone can edit and upload content to. Its sister projects host millions of files uploaded by users. Yet, all these projects together triggered only 380 notices. How in the world is this possible?

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sergey Pesterev / Wikimedia Commons

JohnDarrochNZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Stefan Krause, Germany, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

Michael S Adler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wikimania 2024: call for submissions open!

Food for thought

Takedown Notices and Community Content Moderation: Wikimedia’s Latest Transparency Report

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_seal_(Phoca_vitulina)_2.jpg">Charles J. Sharp</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on_the_Sun_-_August_31_(7931835322).jpg">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="/wiki/User:Black_Sickle" title="User:Black Sickle">Sergey Pesterev</a> / <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Wikimedia Commons</a>

Sergey Pesterev / Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowd_listening_to_speakers.jpg">JohnDarrochNZ</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

JohnDarrochNZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gl%C3%BChlampe_explodiert.jpg">Stefan Krause, Germany</a>, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

Stefan Krause, Germany, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Total_Solar_Eclipse_8-21-17.jpg">Michael S Adler</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Michael S Adler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dampfzug_am_Brocken_in_Winterlandschaft_(2).jpg">Markus Trienke</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_upward_at_the_Yick_Cheong_Building,_13_June_2019.jpg">Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr)</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia

Wikimania 2024: call for submissions open!

Food for thought

Takedown Notices and Community Content Moderation: Wikimedia’s Latest Transparency Report