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The nineteenth edition of the global event will take place in Katowice, Poland (the 2024 European City of Science), from 7 - 10 August.

Event overview “The Power of the Commons: Digital Public Goods for a More Secure, Inclusive, and Resilient World” was a side event during the Summit of the Future Action Days at the United Nations.  This event explored the transformative potential of Digital Public Goods (DPGs) such as Wikipedia and Digital Public Infrastructure (DPIs) in fostering….

21 September 2024, New York USA ― As UN Member States are gathering in New York for the 79th United Nations General Assembly, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is calling on governments and the UN to ensure that stakeholders from all sectors can work together in deciding how….

A Coat of Arms A European municipality’s corporate design team wrote to the Wikimedia Foundation to demand that the municipality’s coat of arms be removed from Wikipedia. The design team claimed that under the nation’s copyright laws, the coat of arms was not in the public domain. One of the key principles of the Wikimedia….

Since 2001, Wikipedia has been a space where we come to learn, where public discourse can be found, and where consensus can be reached. From US elections to the list of non-human electoral candidates, everything that’s deemed encyclopedic can be found on Wikipedia. What once seemed impossible has become one of the most successful experiments….