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Wikipedia’s Nonprofit Host Brings Legal Challenge to New Online Safety Act (OSA) Regulations

Wikipedia’s Nonprofit Host Brings Legal Challenge to New Online Safety Act (OSA) Regulations

The Wikimedia Foundation is legally challenging OSA’s broad new categorization rules, which risk imposing Category 1 duties on Wikipedia

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May 8

The public domain, digital commons, and digital public goods (DPGs): How Wikimedia projects…

The public domain, digital commons, and digital public goods (DPGs): How Wikimedia projects…

The public domain, digital commons, and digital public goods enrichen human knowledge and can help advance sustainable development…

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Feb 17

Wikimedians will promote cultural preservation and knowledge diversity at RightsCon 2025. Tune in!

Wikimedians will promote cultural preservation and knowledge diversity at RightsCon 2025. Tune in!

This year at RightsCon, we will host a booth, have an expanded presence of Wikimedians, and crowdsource expertise for the Wikipedia Test

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Jan 23

Governments Should Not Legitimize Transnational Surveillance and Repression Online

Governments Should Not Legitimize Transnational Surveillance and Repression Online

United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime raises concerns for Wikimedia volunteer editors and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Oct 31, 2024

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A photograph of a monk walking in the morning after the rain in front of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew), part of the Grand Palace, in Bangkok, Thailand

Attending UN RBHR Forum, Asia Pacific 2024? Join us in Discussing Digital Commons for the Region!

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A photograph of the United Nations General Assembly Hall

Protecting Human Rights Online must be the Guiding Principle at the UN for the Future of the Internet

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Are You Attending DRAPAC or APrIGF? Join Us in Shaping the Future of Digital Rights!

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A photograph of a stone plaque engraved with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution

US Supreme Court Ruling on NetChoice Cases: What Does it Mean for Wikipedia?

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An illustration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) represented as a neural network

AI for the people: How machines can help humans improve Wikipedia

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A photograph of a pair of Mandarin ducks with dramatically differently bills and feathers in Martin Mere, UK

What Nonprofit and Community-Based Platforms Contribute to the Ongoing Policy Debate about Online Platform Governance

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A photograph of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Hall

Wikimedians’ Vision for the Global Digital Compact: Community-Based, Open, and Inclusive

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A photograph of many hands, each with a different skin color, holding each other together

Alternatives to Reforming Section 230: Refocusing Internet Regulation on Empowering People

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A world map of submarine telecommunications cables as of July 2015

A world map of submarine telecommunications cables as of July 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Perspective on the DSA and its Global Implications

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A photograph of a “wrong way” sign on Cactus Forest Drive in Saguaro National Park, US

Common Assumptions and Misunderstandings about Reforming Section 230 and Online Content Moderation

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