The world is changing faster than ever before. From disruptive technology to political upheaval, refugee crises to climate change, AI to Mpox, many of us feel overwhelmed and confused. Amid this turbulence, Wikipedia and its sister projects offer a stable reference point. These platforms for free...
Since the Ukraine war and the information restrictions imposed by state propaganda and repressive measures against journalists and critics in Russia, downloads of the Russian offline Wikipedia via the Swiss platform Kiwix have increased 50-fold. Russian traffic mis of March accounts for 35-40% of...
What do you think about the Wikimedia Rebranding Proposals? On 16th of June, the Wikimedia Foundation Branding Team presented 3 rebranding proposals for the movement a movement tagline user groups chapters / Thematic Orgs the Foundation. They now invite all interested parties to take part in an...
Wikipedia Day 2024 – The race for free knowledge has started On 27 April 2024, Wikipedia Day in Bern focused on the topic “Wikipedia & Artificial Intelligence (AI): The race for free knowledge”. Around 100 active Wikipedia authors, partners and organisations accepted the invitation from the...
Wikimedia CH celebrated 20 Years Wikipedia and the first edition of the WikiSwiss Award on June 12 from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm at Neubad, Lucerne. The central topic was: „Monopolisation and capitalisation of knowledge: What is knowledge worth...
The 6th Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon will take place on 5-6 June as an online event. The GLAMhack20 is virtually hosted by the Swiss Institute for Information Science at the FHGR Chur, in collaboration with the Institute for Multimedia Production. The focus will lie on Linked Open Data...
Wikimedia CH’s Education Programme is supporting the ‘bitmark Hackathon 2024’ project with a Rapid Grant. The hackathon will take place on 21 and 22 November at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Zurich, Mythenquai 10, or remotely. The hackathon will give our Education team insight into the challenges...
Mille immagini storiche di teatri nuove su Wikimedia Commons Grazie al sostegno di GLAM Programme di Wikimedia CH e al lavoro di Léa Lacroix e Nicolas Vigneron, la Fondazione SAPA, Archivio svizzero delle arti della scena, ha potuto...
The 56th Solothurn Film Festival will organize an online Wikipedia workshop on Tuesday 26th January 2021 in collaboration with Wikimedia CH, the Swiss Film Archive, Bildwechsel Basel, SWAN and ARF/FDS. The focus is on “50 years of women’s suffrage in Switzerland” and women in film. It will be led...
Switzerland’s visual heritage now also on Wikimedia Commons The Photoglob-Wehrli archive of the two major Swiss postcard publishers Photoglob AG and Wehrli AG is the most important of its kind. It is part of the Prints and Drawings Department of the Swiss National Library. Following a large-scale...
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