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Wikimedia Commons turns 20 🎉 Wikimedia Commons has become an essential resource for free-to-use images, videos, and sound clips. With over 100,000,000 media files, it empowers educators, students, content creators, and the general public by providing access to a vast repository of media that can be reused and shared. Whether you are looking for images, videos, audio clips, or to participate in photo competitions, Wikimedia Commons is an entire world to explore. Thank you to all who contribute. 👏🏾 Wikimedia Commons is a testament to the power of open access and collaborative content creation. By allowing anyone to upload and use media freely, Commons promotes knowledge sharing and creativity. This open model helps to democratize access to high-quality educational resources, ensuring that everyone, regardless of background or resources, can access and contribute to the world’s cultural and educational wealth. Find something new on Wikimedia Commons ➡️ https://w.wiki/Ns

What drives someone to dedicate themselves to the Wikimedia movement? For Ellie Méndez, it is the joy of seeing others grow. Ellie is a passionate Wikipedia trainer, editor, and event organizer from El Salvador. In 2021, she co-founded Wikimedistas El Salvador, promoting Wikimedia projects and enriching content about her country.  Despite numerous challenges, Ellie is committed to bridging the digital gap – the disparity in access to digital technologies and the internet. She strives to share El Salvador’s rich stories and enhance knowledge across the Latin American region, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute to learn. We are proud to #WikiCelebrate Ellie’s efforts. Read more about Ellie’s journey ➡️ https://w.wiki/Ap5A

Do you care about the future of free, reliable, and open knowledge? Last April, the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia affiliates (independent organizations supporting volunteers who contribute to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, and other free knowledge projects) published an open letter to shape the future of the internet. The Global Digital Compact is a process led by UN member states to establish principles and commitments that can help channel the immense potential benefits of digital technologies. 🌎🌍🌏🌐 We called on governments worldwide to include 3 key commitments in the Compact to help public interest projects not only continue to exist, but also thrive in our shared, digital future: 1️⃣ Protect and empower communities to govern online public interest projects. 2️⃣ Promote and protect digital public goods by supporting a robust digital commons from which everyone, everywhere can benefit. 3️⃣ Build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to support and empower, not replace, people who create content and make decisions in the public interest. Over 20 Wikimedia affiliates, 4 other organizations, and more than 650 individuals from 80+ countries have signed the letter already. Read our blog post for more details: https://lnkd.in/eVsPE57K And, if you want to help shape the future of the internet in a way that protects free and open knowledge, please sign the letter! ✍🏽

Meet Yuriko Kadokura, a 70-year-old librarian from Japan whose childhood love for encyclopedias led her to Wikipedia. Yuriko describes her gradual but enjoyable path to editing Wikipedia as a “mountain trail course, which takes you slowly up as you admire the scenery.’ Read about Yuriko's journey with Wikipedia in the free English translation of her book, “A 70-Year-Old Wikipedian Talks About the Charm of Libraries,” available on Diff. Start with the first chapter now ➡️ https://w.wiki/AcaV 

Concerned about disinformation? Meet the Anti-Disinformation Repository. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have been built, from the start, on verifiable sources. Even before combating disinformation became mainstream news, our community focused on the accessibility of trustworthy information, providing reliable information in over 300 languages for people around the world. In 2022, the Wikimedia Foundation launched the Anti-Disinformation Repository, showcasing various tools and initiatives developed by volunteers, affiliates, and the Foundation to counteract misinformation. A notable example is the work of Wiki Movimento Brasil, who uses Wikidata to improve historical records about human rights violations during Brazil's military dictatorship. From 1964 to 1985, Brazil’s military dictatorship heavily censored information and committed many human rights abuses, such as organized torture and unlawful killings. During the dictatorship, collaborative efforts began to secretly document human rights abuses, a crucial step for preserving collective memory and preventing future injustices. With new disinformation campaigns aimed at erasing the military dictatorship’s crimes, this effort to preserve collective memory continued, and the Wikimedia movement has played a part. By consolidating and curating data from Wikidata, Wiki Movimento Brasil ensures that accurate information remains accessible, safeguarding historical truth. This empowers researchers and the public to confront disinformation. Read more about our community efforts to combat disinformation ➡️ https://w.wiki/AhTT

Do you ever wonder how Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, protects your personal information so you can read, share, and edit it privately and safely? Watch this #AWikiMinute video to get answers. ▶️

Hello, and nice to meet you! 👋 We are the Global Advocacy team at the Wikimedia Foundation: a mix of regional policy and human rights, anti-disinformation, communications, and community-organizing experts. Our mission is to help reach the Foundation's vision of a world where everyone, everywhere, can safely create and share knowledge without fear of consequence or barriers to access. 🌐 In this space, we will share our work to promote and protect public policies, laws, and regulations that support the right to access free and open, reliable and accurate knowledge. Get to know our team: https://w.wiki/AxLu! We look forward to seeing you around!

How can fictional futures help us strengthen truth and facts online? Imagine a world where reliable, well-sourced, and human-verified information is not only flourishing, but public trust in it is growing. Can this world exist beyond fantasy fiction? How do we make it a reality? These are the questions we want to explore in our panel at #SXSW 2025. Speakers include: ➡️ Stephen Harrison – Author, “The Editors” ➡️ Karen Lord – Award-winning science fiction author  ➡️ Sewell Chan – Editor-in-Chief, Texas Tribune ➡️ Rebecca MacKinnon – Vice-President of Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation We need your help to bring this important conversation to a broader audience. Vote for our panel to be included in next year’s conference! The SXSW community voting phase runs until 18 August. It is a crucial step in helping to determine whether our panel will be selected. Vote here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/deNQ95wE

🎂 Wikiversity turns 18 today! 🎂 Since its launch on 15 August 2006, Wikiversity has grown into a substantial resource for educational activities, tutorials, and research. It began as a community within Wikibooks before evolving into its own Wikimedia project. There is content on Wikiversity for education at all levels, from preschool to university, including professional training and informal learning. Teachers, students, and researchers are invited to collaborate. The project is dedicated to free learning materials and projects. Everyone can participate at no cost, with no advertising, and no credentials are required. No degrees are awarded — just learning. As of August 2024, there are Wikiversity sites active for 17 languages comprising a total of over 150,000 articles and more than 700 active editors. Visit Wikiversity https://w.wiki/u