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Wikimedia Foundation joins Digital Public Goods Alliance to champion open knowledge infrastructure
The Wikimedia Foundation celebrates becoming a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest
Now on its 16th edition, Wiki Loves Monuments still retains its crown as the world’s largest photo contest. Each year since 2010, photographers from around the globe have come together to celebrate cultural heritage through their camera lens—and donate it all to benefit Wikimedia’s freely shared knowledge. Despite Wiki Loves Monuments’ size and scope, it….
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Small Request, Bigger Principle During this reporting cycle, we received a request asking us to take down a map of a country on Wikimedia Commons that compared its shape to an animal. While the Foundation and volunteer editors saw the image as simply illustrative of the nation’s geographic shape (and widely used in external sources),….
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Diliff, University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, 钉钉, Ninaras
