Bobby Shabangu makes history as the first African elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board. A proud moment for Africa in the global knowledge movement. #Wikimedia #AfricaRising #FreeKnowledge

https://newz.africa/2026/01/27/bobby-shabangu-wikimedia-board/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Since 2001, Wikipedia has become the backbone of knowledge on the internet. @wikipedia

Discover 25 years of Wikipedia here: https://wikipedia25.org

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25

#Wikipedia25 #25YearsOfWikipedia #FreeKnowledge #OpenKnowledge #InternetHistory #DigitalCulture #KnowledgeForAll #FromDialUpToNow #OnlineLearning #CollaborativeKnowledge #HistoryOfTheWeb #WikiLove #Wikipedia #Wikimedia #WikimediaFoundation #Wiki25

🎨 "Learn computer graphics from scratch" with the elegance of a bulldozer! 🚜 Dive into a #blog for the eternally angry nerds, where free knowledge comes with the charm of a rusty nail. 🌴 And don't forget the book, perfect for those deserted island survivalists who forgot to pack logic and internet! 📚😂
https://www.scratchapixel.com #computergraphics #learning #humor #freeknowledge #desertedisland #HackerNews #ngated

💫 Der #39c3 beginnt mit Hoffnung und Tatendrang:

Es geht darum, die Gesellschaft gerechter und offener zu machen. Und darum, wie Technik genutzt werden kann, eine lebenswerte digitale Zukunft zu schaffen, »wo Menschen mehr Wertschätzung erfahren, die offene Software, Protokolle und Schnittstellen bauen und solidarische Ideen in Technologie umsetzen als aufmerksamkeitsoptimierte Influencer«
(via @spiegel)
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/chaos-computer-club-sucht-mittel-gegen-die-ki-overlords-a-9e93ba37-c43c-4f6d-9307-26f5c9886aca
#opendata #opensource #freeknowledge #knowledgeequity #solidarität

Federating knowledge: exploring ways to bridge wikis and notes

Join the workshop at #39C3!

NEW DATE: day 4, TODAY at 13:40 @ Free Knowledge Habitat Workshop Area.

Most people and organisations have their very own way of acquiring, organising, archiving, sharing, and collaborating on knowledge repositories. A broad spectrum of opinions and approaches resulted in a diverse and rich ecosystem of knowledge management solutions. Nevertheless, this also implies scattered and disconnected knowledge sources. What would it mean to build bridges among wikis and federate knowledge?

This workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions.

• What does it mean to federate knowledge repositories?
• Instead of pursuing a silver-bullet solution to embrace all use-cases, what would it mean to foster and enable interoperability for different software?

These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Recently, I began actively researching this topic as I started playing with the MediaWiki API to cross-synchronise my local Markdown notes and the XPUB wiki, the public learning wiki of the Experimental Publishing master. I am puzzled by taking advantage of the potential of a specific software (in this case, MediaWiki) while fearing of being locked-in.

Some further, more specific, insights and questions:

• Local-first approaches and software (e.g. Reflection)
• Interesting experiments based on existing protocols, such as Ibis
• What do we take of semi-open and obscure yet very cool initiatives like Anytype
• The power and the limits of plain-text: how to enable collaboration on simple Markdown files and build on top of it, as Obsidian does

Cc: @modal @p2panda @obsidian @wikimediaDE @dweb

#knowledge #FreeKnowledge #wiki #MediaWiki #API #Obsidian #Anytype #Ibis #IbisWiki #Reflection #CCC #Federation #federatedKnowledge #docs #PKM #knowledgeManagement #personalKnowledgeManagement #collectiveKnowledgeManagement #DWeb #decentralization #ActivityPub

🧩 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟭 = 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆!

The crossword puzzle has a place on Wikipedia—a great example of how knowledge is built collectively.
➡️ https://w.wiki/FQHp

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒑𝒖𝒛𝒛𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑾𝒊𝒌𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂.

Solve it and share your solution below this post.

As a Christmas gift, we will publish the solution next week.

#CrosswordPuzzleDay #Wikipedia #FreeKnowledge #WikimediaBelgium

Un simple geste libère la connaissance

Grâce à votre soutien, vous préservez l’esprit collaboratif de Wikipédia ❤
Chaque don, modeste ou grand, compte pour garantir l’indépendance des actions de Wikimédia France et rend possible l’accès libre, gratuit et universel au savoir en France.

❤ Merci pour votre geste ❤

#don #Wikipedia #Wikimedia #WMFr #Donner #Générosité #Freeknowledge #association #WikimediaFrance

https://soutenir.wikimedia.fr/

Often research are led with public money, and the results put behind paywalls by “publishers” whose role seems today more and more anachronistic.

#research #science #peerreview #editors #paywall #OpenAccess #freeknowledge #freescience #arxiv

🌟 Today = Children's Rights Day!

Children have the right to ask questions.
* To learn.
* To discover.
* To free knowledge. ✨

Wikipedia = a place full of answers for curious minds.

From “How does a rainbow work?” to “Why are there clouds?”

🧠💛 Keep asking questions.
We'll keep sharing.

#ChildrensRightsDay #FreeKnowledge #Wikimedia

🌍 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 — 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.

In the new newsletter from Wikimedia Belgium, you can read:

🧩 why Dutch is so strongly represented on Wikipedia

💬 how AI and human editors work together

🕯️ and why war diaries say more than history books.

Read, discuss, share: https://w.wiki/Fwsp

#Wikipedia #FreeKnowledge #Wikimedia

🚀 Wiki Loves Public Domain 2025 kicks off on 1 October!

A campaign to put the public domain in the spotlight.

📖 Volunteers create or improve biographies of creators whose work will enter the public domain in 2026.

🎨 This means their stories will be immediately available and enriched as soon as their work becomes freely usable.

Join in and contribute to #FreeKnowledge 👉https://w.wiki/FEVa

#WikiLovesPublicDomain #PublicDomain #Wikimedia

:yes: Wikimedia Deutschland veröffentlicht mit dem Embedding-Projekt eine Vektordatenbank für #Wikidata, die ab jetzt für alle frei zugänglich ist.
#ki #ai #freeknowledge

https://www.wikimedia.de/presse/wikidata-embedding-projekt/

Just deleted my #Academia account. Didn't use it much, especially since it became a spam source to sell me stuff I don't need. The data harvesting/stealing to train more AI shit was the final straw.
I don't have many papers published, since I've stopped researching a long, long time ago (I can still remember 😊) but I'll provide them to anyone who asks.
And maybe it's time to build a personal website with my portfolio...
#enshittification #FreeAcademia #FreeKnowledge #OpenScience

Molinism

This is named after the 16th century Spanish Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina. It’s the thesis that God has middle knowledge, or scientia Media: the knowledge of counterfactuals, particularly counterfactuals regarding human action. It looks to reconcile the apparent tension of Divine Providence & human free will.

Molinists, following Luis de Molina’s example, present God’s knowledge in a sequence of 3 logical moments. The 1st of God’s knowledge of necessary truths or natural Knowledge. The truths are independent of God’s will & are non-contingent. This knowledge includes the full range of logical possibilities.

The 2nd is God’s free Knowledge. This type of knowledge consists of contingent truths that are dependent on God’s will, or truths, that God brings about. Free Knowledge encompasses the future of what will happen.

In between God’s natural & free knowledge is His “middle knowledge” that contains the range of possible things that would happen given certain circumstances, by which God knows what His free creatures would do in any situation. These truths that don’t have to be true. But are true without God being the primary course of them.

Molinists use Matthew 11:23 to scripturally support their case. They claim that in this example, God knows what His free creatures would choose under hypothetical would choose under hypothetical circumstances. Namely that the Sodomites would’ve responded to Jesus’ miracles still have been in existence in Jesus’ day, given that hypothetical situation.

Matthew 11:23 has what’s commonly called a counterfactual of creaturely Freedom. However, counterfactuals are to be distinguished from foreknowledge. Middle knowledge is to be distinguished from God’s knowledge of counterfactuals.

Molinists say the logical ordering of events for creation would be as follows: 1) God’s natural knowledge of necessary truths. 2) God’s middle knowledge, including counterfactuals. Then the Creation of the World. 3) God’s free knowledge, the actual ontology of the world.

Ontology is a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. The placing of God’s middle knowledge between God’s knowledge of necessary truths & God’s creative decree is crucial.

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#16thCentury #Counterfactuals #CreaturelyFreedom #DivineProvidence #Foreknowledge #FreeKnowledge #FreeWill #Jesuit #Jesus #LuisDeMolina #Matthew1123 #MiddleKnowledge #Molinism #NaturalKnowledge #Ontology #ScientiaMedia #Sodom #Sodomites #Spanish

Today is #WorldLiteracyDay 📖

Access to knowledge is a right, not a luxury.

At Wikimedia, we are working towards a world where everyone can learn, read and grow – in as many languages as possible. 🌍

👉 Would you like to contribute to free knowledge? You can! Click and follow this short introduction: https://w.wiki/EfxF

#FreeKnowledge #LiteracyDay

📸 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝟴𝟲,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀.

Vera de Kok has been named 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 2025!

👉 Full story: https://ap.lc/cbUgk
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Or view 👀 her full contribution: https://w.wiki/E$i4

#Wikimedia #Wikimania2025 #FreeKnowledge #Photography

Stealing millions of books for AI training by corporation with multi bullion profit is "fair use".

free dissemination of academic knowledge for poor is piracy.

The fight against the corporate greed is far from over.

"Sci-Hub has been blocked in India"

https://sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocked-india

#India #freeknowledge #corporategreed

Have you always wanted to edit #Wikipedia but were never sure how to get started? This video is a very helpful primer, breaking down what to do, how to do it, and the culture of Wiki editing. https://youtu.be/bRRHR1NEOqE?si=el4-0gOcpP9u7hu8

#WikiEditing #MollyWhite #OpenSource #FreeKnowledge

📢 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲!

📰 Our newsletter got a makeover 😉
New style, clear updates and lots of inspiration around heritage and free knowledge.

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🎉 Wikimania is 20 years old!

📍 Nairobi, 6-9 Aug
💡 Full hybrid: physical = full, but online = open!
🗣️ 400+ speakers, 5 languages
📺 Online participants can switch live, chat & review sessions.
📆 5 Aug: pre-conference for power users (security, collaboration, privacy)

👉 Free tickets: https://ap.lc/aptUe

#Wikimania2025 #FreeKnowledge #Wikipedia