Dimi Zagorski

The choice on digital sovereignty: Build capacity with Open Source or settle for dependency? Wikimedia Europe has signed an open-letter ahead of the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty with suggestions how to harness open source AI. Read our plan now: wikimedia.brussels/open-letter-ha…

Competition is good! Wikipedia’s free licences explicitly welcome it. We have seen other platforms and encyclopaedias appear in the past, and we will see more in the future. The current trend is using AI. Let’s take a look and discuss some aspects! wikimedia.brussels/wikipedia-ai-c…

It is a little known fact that the Wikimedia Foundation runs its own servers in several places around the world. This has some advantages, but also poses specific challenges. Let’s take a look! wikimedia.brussels/wikipedia-is-r…

Protecting and Empowering Children Online: A Wikimedia Perspective wikimedia.brussels/protecting-and…

The futures of human knowledge and AI are inextricably linked. What are the opportunities that AI can bring to human knowledge, what are the emerging risks and how can we mitigate them? @Wikimedia published a Human Rights Impact Assessment on AI & ML. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia…

Wikimedia Foundation board elections are open until 22 October. Two seats need to be filled. Editors with 300 edits before July 28, 2025 across Wikimedia wikis and at least 20 edits between August 28, 2024 and July 28, 2025 may vote. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia…

@Wikimedia is taking a SLAPP case to the European Court of Human Rights. We hope the case and its rulings serve to bring about greater protections against overbroad claims. Details here: medium.com/wikimedia-poli…

It could be claimed that this tactic amounts to a SLAPP case, as the charge was extremely broad, as confirmed by the court. Important to note that this was a ruling on a preliminary injunction. Another court case in Portugal is to follow, as well as the ECHR challenge.

The year-long legal wrangling is about the article on Caesar DePaço, who wants public information about him to be removed. The court struck down the vast majority his claims, but left a few standing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_De…

A Portuguese court has order the removal of some edits of Wikipedia article. It also ruled that the Wikimedia Foundation has to hand over IP & email addresses of users. WMF is complying, but also appealing to the European Court of Human Rights. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Training for Wikimedians on online child safety at @Wikimania in Nairobi: How to recognise different types of CSAM & CSEM and how to react. Not a what you would call a pleasant session, but an important one.

The Danish government is suggesting to amend its copyright to add: 1. A general protection against realistic, digitally generated imitations of personal characteristics. 2. An imitation protection for performers. Deadline for comments is 21.08.25: hoeringsportalen.dk/Hearing/Detail…

Toymaker Ravensburger used the Vitruvian Man, copyright long expired, on a puzzle. Italy claimed that its Cultural Heritage Code extends protection, even beyond Italy. A German court now ruled against this. @3_justus from @communia_eu has the write-up: communia-association.org/2025/07/10/hig…

China’s fifth veto of Wikimedia’s requests for accreditation denies permanent observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the agency that shapes global intellectual property policies and the future of open access to knowledge. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/07/0…

An experiment to show AI-generated summaries on the top of Wikipedia articles was halted after the community criticised inaccuracies in the sample. The editing community is now discussing its position on large language models and Wikipedia: #RfC:_Adopting_a_community_position_on_WMF_AI_development" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Wikinews is one of the lesser known Wikimedia projects. It doesn't attract many volunteer editors, which means it struggles staying up-to-date and sometimes with reliability. There is now a public consultation about possibly closing it down: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_co…

Belarusian Wikipedian Maksim Lepushenka was arrested, becoming the latest editor arrested in Belarus. Lepushenka's account has since been locked by the community as compromised. Another Belarusian Wikipedian, Olga Sitnik, was arrested in April. More: w.wiki/EZ2R

@VladislavPanev И Евронюз това предават, цитирайки азербайджанските власти.

Близкият до азерското правителство сайт caliber.az: Руската противовъздушна отбрана е ударила падналият вчера самолет.

Европейската комисия публикува изследване за състоянието на авторското право в ЕС. След като беше прието моето предложение през 2023 г., България става шестата държава с право на вторично публикуване на научна литература (т.е. научните списания не могат да забранят да се публикуват статиите свободно)

General Assembly 8 June 2024 Wikimedia Belgium #WMBE be.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024-06-0…