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The Wikimedia community is made up of creators, collectors, and consumers of free knowledge. While most material appearing on Wikimedia projects is in the public domain or freely licensed, on occasion, copyrighted material makes its way onto the projects. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor provision requires us to remove infringing material if….

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The Wikimedia projects make up one of the world’s largest repositories of human knowledge. With that much information, someone is bound to get upset by some of the content from time to time. While the vast majority….

Freedom of speech is essential to the Wikimedia movement—the projects cannot flourish in an ecosystem where individuals cannot speak freely. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously. However, every year, governments, individuals, and corporations ask us to disclose user data. Often, we have no nonpublic….

Twice a year, the Wikimedia Foundation reports on requests we receive to alter or remove content from the projects, and to provide nonpublic information about users. This Transparency Report includes charts and graphs that give details such as the origin of the requests and the projects targeted. We also tell stories of interesting or notable….

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Thank you for reading our Annual Report. We welcome all the feedback we receive from our readers, donors and contributors. If you have any questions or comments about this report, please email us at donate@wikimedia.org. Disclaimer: Due to the volume of inquiries we receive, we use Zendesk as a donor response platform. By emailing donate@wikimedia.org, you understand that….