CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/Important topics from the Diff Blog - April-June 2023
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- By: Toni Ristovski (CEE Hub)
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Important topics from the Diff Blog
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Wikimedia Foundation celebrates 20 years supporting Wikipedia as a non-profit organisation. Jimmy Wales created the Wikimedia Foundation in 2003, two years after he founded Wikipedia. Today, the Wikimedia Foundation supports and celebrates open knowledge, and the volunteers who make it possible, in a variety of ways.
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On Friday 9 June, Wikimedia Czech Republic hosted the opening of the General Assembly of the newly established Wikimedia Europe, which brings together the advocacy activities of the European Wikimedia movement. Wikimedia Europe currently has 21 members and this was first official general meeting. One of the main objectives of this newly formed organisation is to play an even stronger role in shaping European regulation in the areas of free knowledge, access to information and freedom of expression.
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Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 was finally held after pandemic and for the first time in Athens, Greece in the period of 19 to 21 May 2023. The event greeted about 150 people in Technopolis-Gazi in Athens, a place of particular historic and architectural value in itself, an industrial museum and a major cultural venue hosting numerous events throughout the year, at the same time many more remotely followed the event. Hackathon had three days of program with many different sessions.
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GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 announce the venue and informs that scholarship application process is open. The conference will be organised in period of 16 to 18 November 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the first time by Wikimedistas de Uruguay. The GLAM Wiki Conference is an opportunity for professionals and volunteers from heritage institutions and libraries, as well as members of the Wikimedia community, to meet to reflect, discuss, generate strategies and take actions to improve access to scientific and cultural heritage.
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Wikipedia is now a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the new Digital Services Act (EU DSA). VLOP designation, which places platforms under greater regulatory scrutiny, isn’t based on how inherently risky they are, but rather, on the size of their readership: Wikipedia is one of 19 platforms that are estimated to have more than 45 million “monthly active users” in the European Union (EU). Our designation was based on the EU userbase estimates that we published in February 2023, and which we will periodically refresh. Other VLOPs include Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, Google Search, and YouTube. Read more below at the link about what changes does the EU DSA bring for Wikimedians?
- > Read more about this on the blog post.
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