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European Court of Human Rights case dismissed after two years of access to Wikipedia being restored in Turkey
Today, the European Court of Human Rights announced that it is dismissing the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2019 petition to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. The case was dismissed because access to Wikipedia was restored by the Turkish government in January 2020 and the block was already determined to be a human rights violation in….
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Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi Davası, Türkiye’de Vikipedi’ye erişim engelinin kaldırılmasından iki yıl sonra reddedildi.
Avrupa İnsan Hakları mahkemesi bugün, Vikipedi’ye erişim engelinin kaldırılması için Wikimedia Vakfı’nın 2019 tarihli dilekçesini reddettiğini duyurdu. Dava, Türk hükûmeti tarafından Vikipedi’ye erişimin Ocak 2020’de tekrar sağlanmış olması ve engelin bir insan hakları ihlali olduğunun Türk Anayasa Mahkemesi’nin Aralık 2019 tarihli kararında zaten belirlenmiş olması nedeniyle reddedildi. Mahkeme, Türk Anayasa Mahkemesi’nin artık çevrimiçi ifade özgürlüğü….
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Ten ways to close the gender gap on Wikipedia and beyond
Women’s History Month in March serves as a designated time to commemorate women and highlight their contributions to society. As we showcase the many women who have shaped our world, however, their struggles to be recognized and seen for their many achievements also become clear. This is especially true in the information landscape, the universe….
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The Wikimedia Foundation stands with its communities around the world in defending free knowledge in the face of threats from the Russian government
Цей пост також доступний українською мовою.Этот пост также доступен на русском языке. On 1 March 2022 the Wikimedia Foundation received a Russian government demand to remove content related to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine posted by volunteer contributors to Russian Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation and the movement we are part of have never backed down….
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Amplifying Black and Diverse Histories is the Focus of New Wikimedia Foundation Collaboration with Global Artists
To kick off Black History Month, the Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, announced the launch of Wiki Unseen, a collaboration with artists aimed at expanding the visual representation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in Wikimedia projects and advancing knowledge equity. Launched today, the first iteration of the project, a….
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Creating a Culture of Online Safety: Wikipedia’s Security team rises to new cyber challenges
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Security team is an often invisible force that works tirelessly to protect the information and software of Wikipedia and our other projects. The internet has changed a lot since Wikipedia was created in 2001, and that change has brought with it myriad new security challenges. From our vast army of diverse volunteer editors….
Series: Reflections on representation this Black History Month
October marks the start of Black History Month, in the UK and Ireland. At the Wikimedia Foundation, this month is an exciting opportunity to honor the lived experiences, stories, and contributions of Black people, Africans, and Africans in the diaspora around the world. We are also digging deeper into the meaning of representation — exploring….
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Wikimedia Foundation launches campaign with South African creative community to promote access to and sharing of free knowledge
September 28 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa – Today, on the International Day for Universal Access to Information, the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, is launching a campaign in collaboration with the South African creative community to showcase the power of knowledge and everyone’s right to access, create and share it. Over the next….
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Celebrating Latinx stories, culture, and contributions on Wikimedia projects
Today marks the start of a Heritage Month focused on celebrating the history, culture, and influence of Latinx communities in the United States. The official name of the month itself (National Hispanic Heritage Month) is a living example of the power of language — its history and inequities in who controls it, and its impact….
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Wikimania 2021: Welcome to the world of Wikimedians … the online edition!
In an alternate, COVID-19-free universe, hundreds of Wikimedians — the community of volunteers who make Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects possible — would have gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, in August 2020 for the sixteenth annual Wikimania conference. They would have met in person, no social distancing to worry about, exploring sites like the Grand Palace, snacking….