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Who Owns Free Knowledge? 📚 💡
Last week, digital researchers and free knowledge practitioners came together at the Weizenbaum Institute to examine the power hierarchies embedded in free knowledge today, and to imagine a more just future of the commons. It was a wonderful conference, with @wikimediaDE full of enlightening thoughts and new questions.

Read the full report here: weizenbaum-institut.de/news/de

OpenKnowledge #Equality #Power #Wikimedia #DigitalSpaces #Commons #Platforms #Culture

Für universitäre Sammlungen spielt das Wikiversum eine immer größere Rolle, z. B. um Daten zu veröffentlichen & zu vernetzen.🔗🌍
Wer einen Einblick bekommen möchte in die Arbeit mit Wiki-Projekten, ist daher herzlich zu unserem Workshop eingeladen!
👉Arbeit mit Wiki-Projekten: Frauen- & Kolonialgeschichte in Wikimedia Commons sichtbar machen
📅 13. Mai
🕙10-15:30 Uhr
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Anmeldung: sammlungen.io/termine/workshop
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Here is that #Wikimania submission: Achieving more together: free knowledge as a bridge for #collaboration between #Wikimedia and other #volunteer initiatives. Unfortunately, they're using a non-public review process again this year.

If you're involved in #volunteering activities and haven't considered #Wikipedia or its sister projects as potential partners yet, now is a good time to give that a thought, and I'd be happy to think along.

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etherpad.wikimedia.org exists

considering Wikimedia got Wikiversity, the education related project...I'd say using Wikimedia's etherpad is fair game.

Now I don't know how many users it can handle.

If you intend to access it from the same IP address maybe you'll run into problems, I don't know so one alternative is to use ie. Tor Browser so IPs don't matter anymore.

etherpad.wikimedia.orgEtherpad

How crawlers impact the operations of the #Wikimedia projects
Web crawlers collecting training data for #AI models are overwhelming #Wikipedia's infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024, according to the #WikimediaFoundation. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedia content has surged 50% since January, primarily from automated programs scraping #WikimediaCommons' 144 million openly licensed media files.
diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/

Diff · How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projectsSince the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…