Mia

Great start to #KnowledgeIsHuman by Jimmy Wales: open knowledge is essential infrastructure. Every layer of knowledge in ecosystem is grounded in human effort - creating; sharing; synthesising; remixing; reusing. GLAMs, BBC, Wikimedia and us - we can all contribute

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WMUK_KNOWLEDGE-IS-HUMAN-PROGRAMME-v2.pdf

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A common challenge for open knowledge organisations, as summarised by Birgit Mǔller from the Wikimedia Foundation: 'Our knowledge is free, our infrastructure is not' #KnowledgeIsHuman
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'How does Google know that the Queen has died? They get every single edit made to Wikipedia almost as they happen' so they can update their infoboxes. Search companies have to support Wikipedia if they want to sustain knowledge services like that. #KnowledgeIsHuman
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'The social contract is gone'; there's very little difference between people taking copyrighted information and people hacking into organisations. Governments could help by not procuring products from organisations that have used unlicensed data in their training models. #KnowledgeIsHuman
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My most excellent colleague @adi mentions the @BL_DigiSchol internal training programme on digital scholarship - a lot of our material has been turned into public guides at https://libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-guides/ (thank you @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social ) #KnowledgeIsHuman
Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides

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More on @adi @BL_DigiSchol 's work on Wikisource https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/28/the-british-library-loves-manuscripts-on-wikisource/ #KnowledgeIsHuman
The British Library Loves Manuscripts on Wikisource

The British Library has joined hands with the Wikimedia Foundation to support the Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WiLMa) project, sharing 76 Javanese manuscripts, including what is probably the large…

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The closing panel was a great opportunity to reflect on our current moment. How do we imagine futures where we can share knowledge openly without inviting exploitation and extraction? Where might we refuse to scale some work? #KnowledgeIsHuman