Here's a quick guide to how you can access and use the images commissioned by Aoife Cawley for Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 via Wikimedia Commons. They are free to use with attribution to the artist! #Openknowledge #wikimediacommons

Like metadata? Passionate about open knowledge?! Then you might like to come work at the University of Glasgow on our Enlighten repositories. Full-time, open-ended contract.

Full details below!

https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/senior-library-assistant-enlighten

Vandaag werd mijn projectje "Bestemming Nerdland" vermeld in de nieuwste aflevering van de @nerdlandbe podcast ( @jbaert en de andere podcasters)

Ik maakte een interactieve wereldkaart waarmee je "nerdy bestemmingen" kan ontdekken, telkens met het bijbehorende fragment uit de podcast. Het project steunt op #opensource en #openknowledge, met dank aan o.a. @maplibre @openstreetmap en @wikidata

Inspiratie nodig voor een volgende reis of uitstap? Neem dan een kijkje op https://seppesantens.github.io/bestemmingNerdLand/

If you're fluent in Hungarian and want a low-risk, long-term-useful open-knowledge-based way to contribute to organising resistance against authoritarianism in Hungary, consider starting the Hungarian language #Wikipedia [1] article about the Hungarian legal system. Currently it looks like there are only en, fr, and uk language versions [2][3].

#OpenKnowledge #HuWikipedia #HuLaw

[1] https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kezd%C5%91lap
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Hungary
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16630110

Last week in Leiden, Brewster Kahle was presented with the 2024 ProjectUil by the Dutch Wikipedia community. He explained how the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has helped fix millions of broken links, ensuring citations on Wikipedia remain valid and accessible across multiple language editions.

https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/kahle-receives-projectuil-from-wikipedia/

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #OpenKnowledge #Wikipedia

Kennt ihr unseren #YouTube Kanal?
Mr. Wissen2Go und Engagement Global haben tolle #Videos gedreht und wir haben eine #Playlist daraus gemacht.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7W9FHtJ-hl2oOYwDxlSqVxtzhcXogJCL

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu 3 Millionen Artikeln an die DE @wikipedia

#VeranstaltungsalOERt
Unsere dreiteilige Workshop-Reihe für das @deutschesschulportal ist im vollen Gange!
Am 25.03. geht es um Qualitätssicherung und Tools
Richtig gelesen- wir bieten wOERkshops rund um das Thema OER an!

KI & freie Wissensprojekte: Wer profitiert, wer zahlt? Große #KI-Unternehmen nutzen Inhalte offener Projekte wie #Wikipedia profitabel, belasten aber deren Infrastruktur. Gefordert: faire Kompensation & klare Nutzungsregeln, um freies Wissen zu schützen. #OpenKnowledge #AIethics #FairUse

#VeranstaltungsalOERt
In der #DBSAktionswoche bietet @DeutscherBildungsserver verschiedene Beiträge zum Thema #Demokratiebildung!
Auch wir sind dabei! @johannesappel und Susanne Grimm
Hier gehts zum Livestream: https://t1p.de/plhel (gekürzter Link)

#FediLZ #Fedicampus #AcademicMastodon #openeducationnews #opened #openknowledge #freieswissen #OER #OERde
#OpenEducation #OpenEducationalResources
#OffeneBildung #freieBildung #Openess #OpenScience #OpenPedagogy #OEP #OpenAccess

I joined a discussion group involved in open source intelligence. [1] Because I often see links to walled gardens like X and the like in those discussions, I asked what is considered an **open source** write-up for this community?

First answer from an active member, "Anything that any normal person could access is what we call open source.

So a tweet is open source because anyone can make a twitter account in 20 seconds."

I'm afraid I got excited with some journalistic work of the group too early.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence

»“Wait, not like that”: #Freeaccess and #openaccess in the age of #generativeAI. The real #threat isn’t AI using #openknowledge — it’s #AI #killing the #projects that make knowledge free.«https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/?eicker.news #tech #media

"Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce the incentives for anyone to make their work publicly available going forward (freely licensed or otherwise). They drain resources from maintainers of those common repositories often without any compensation. They reduce the visibility of the original sources, leaving people unaware that they can or should contribute towards maintaining such valuable projects. AI companies should want a thriving open access ecosystem, ensuring that the models they trained on Wikipedia in 2020 can be continually expanded and updated. Even if AI companies don’t care about the benefit to the common good, it shouldn’t be hard for them to understand that by bleeding these projects dry, they are destroying their own food supply.

And yet many AI companies seem to give very little thought to this, seemingly looking only at the months in front of them rather than operating on years-long timescales. (Though perhaps anyone who has observed AI companies’ activities more generally will be unsurprised to see that they do not act as though they believe their businesses will be sustainable on the order of years.)

It would be very wise for these companies to immediately begin prioritizing the ongoing health of the commons, so that they do not wind up strangling their golden goose. It would also be very wise for the rest of us to not rely on AI companies to suddenly, miraculously come to their senses or develop a conscience en masse.

Instead, we must ensure that mechanisms are in place to force AI companies to engage with these repositories on their creators' terms."

https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

Cool, my first MR on the @okfde website has been merged. Basically, I added the Mastodon account of @arnesemsrott and @stwe , who I know personally. And removed Arne's Twitter account because he deleted it.

There is a reason why Arne seems to be more aware than the average German of the dangers of the AfD and the growth of the far right.

I hope to convince other Open Knowledge and Wikimedia to get out of this dangerous bullshit.

Ditch the autocrats' propaganda. Leave X. Now.

https://github.com/okfde/okfn.de/pull/125

Wem gehört freies Wissen? Welche Machtstrukturen und Technologien prägen unser Wissenssystem? Wie können wir es gerechter gestalten?

Zusammen mit dem @Weizenbaum_Institut laden wir zur Konferenz „Who Owns Free Knowledge?“ ein. In Panels & einem Barcamp gehts um den historischen und technologischen Einfluss auf Wissenssysteme, aber auch um Möglichkeiten der Veränderung.

10. April 2025, Weizenbaum-Institut Berlin
Infos & Anmeldung: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/conference-who-owns-free-knowledge/

@dielinke #BTW25 #BTW2025 #nachhaltigkeit #oss #opensource #OpenHardware #reparieren #repaircafe #reparaturbonus #updatepflicht #energieeffizienz #rechenzentren #Rechenzentrum #publicmoneypubliccode #openknowledge #OpenEducationResources

UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance has added #Wikipedia to its registry of FOSS, data, tech, etc. that serves the public good.

Wikipedia Recognized as a Digital Public Good https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02/12/wikipedia-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good/ #DPGA #OpenKnowledge #wikimedia