The European Commission and the European Parliament when WW3 begins, but the weekend has just started.
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The European Commission and the European Parliament when WW3 begins, but the weekend has just started.
Architecture is not neutral. A street with wide pavements and humped or narrowed crossings makes cars slow down, even without an explicit speed limit. Similarly, a platform’s architecture powerfully determines whether its users tend toward collaboration or conflict
🚨 The JURI Committee has adopted the INI report on copyright & generative AI.
The outcome leaves legal uncertainty for researchers and public-interest AI developers.
Plenary vote in March.
👉 Full analysis (@justusdreyling.bsky.social and Leander Nielbock):
communia-association.org/2026/01/28/i...
The photograph depicts a very rare moment when a Great Crested Hoopoe flew in with a caught lizard for a female that was sitting on eggs.
The last image illustrates a Tawny Cat Snake peering through the dusk captured during the calm of evening in the lush greenery of Nepal.
Get mesmerized by the winners of the landscape category ➡️ wikilovesearth.org (6/6)
A close-up of the Glanville Fritillary, a butterfly that occupies almost all of Europe, especially Finland.
This image shows us an illustration of a weevil beetle with unique coloration of blue and black.
This thread shows the first 10 place winners, awarded under the macro/close-up category (animals, plants, fungi). (5/6)
The photo showcases a swirling ball of countless reef fish named yellowstripe scad, forming a mesmerizing bait ball beneath the clear and blue waters of Tawi-Tawi.
The photo of a black carpenter ant tearing flesh from the carcass of a Bengal monitor was taken in the National Botanical Garden of Bangladesh.
This year, Wiki Loves Earth received around 80,000 submissions from more than 5,200 participants in 57 countries and territories – a record for the contest. (4/6)
Image depicts a close-up of a common blue damselfly found beside a river in the Norfolk Broads National Park.
The image captures a well-timed moment of a common kingfisher hunting on a pond in the Czech Republic.
Photographers are asked to venture out into natural areas near them, take a picture, upload it to Wikimedia Commons, and share it with the world. (3/6)
Close-up image depicting a green jararaca on the territory of Carrasco National Park in Bolivia.
Image depicts a close-up of a common blue damselfly found beside a river in the Norfolk Broads National Park.
Organized by Wikimedians, Wiki Loves Earth celebrates the world's natural heritage. (2/6)
Close-up image depicting a green jararaca on the territory of Carrasco National Park in Bolivia. Text reads: Meet the winners in the macro category of Wiki Loves Earth 2025.
The winners of Wiki Loves Earth 2025 are in 🌿🥇 🧵⬇️ (1/6)
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-...
Competition is a good thing. 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 LLMs.
Let’s have a look at what’s out there and discuss some of the aspects!
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...
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Protecting and Empowering Children Online: A Wikimedia Perspective
wikimedia.brussels/protecting-a...
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?
@wikimediafoundation.org published a Human Rights Impact Assessment on AI & ML.
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.
The Wikimedia Foundation is taking a SLAPP case to the European Court of Human Rights. The hope is that the case and its rulings serve to bring about greater protections against overbroad claims. Details here:
medium.com/wikimedia-po...
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_...
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/Wikiped...
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 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.
The deadline for comments is 21 August 2025: hoeringsportalen.dk/Hearing/Deta...
German toymaker Ravensburger used the Vitruvian Man, copyright long expired, on a jigsaw puzzle. Italy claimed that its Cultural Heritage Code extends protection, even beyond Italy.
A German court now ruled against this.
@justusdreyling.bsky.social from @communia.bsky.social has the write-up:
IMHO this is a relocation flight.
China’s fifth veto of Wikimedia’s requests for accreditation denies permanent observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN specialised agency that shapes global intellectual property (IP) policies and the future of open access to knowledge.
An experiment to show AI-generated summaries on the top of Wikipedia articles was halted. The community responded, criticising inaccuracies in the sample.
The editing community is now discussing its position on large language models and Wikipedia. Check it out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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 (a move I personally support).
The @wikimediafoundation.org has updated its terms of use to adjust language for clarity, to be up to date with suggestions from our first Digital Services Act (DSA) audit and to make sure the language of the legal sections aligns with international case law. Six small-ish changes.
Belarusian Wikipedia sysop Maksim Lepushenka was arrested last month, becoming the latest Wikipedian arrested in Belarus. Lepushenka's account has since globally locked by the community, as a compromised account.
Another Belarusian Wikipedian, Olga Sitnik, was arrested in April. More: w.wiki/EZ2R