One thing we love about Knowledge Commons is how it brings humanities scholars together to share open, accessible research across disciplines. Building community + supporting open knowledge = a win-win. 💗
#KnowledgeCommons #OpenKnowledge #AcademicResearch #ScholarlyCommunication
🐕 Οδηγός για την προετοιμασία σκύλου πριν την άφιξη μωρού!
7 βήματα βασισμένα σε κτηνιατρική επιστήμη:
🔹 Προληπτική κτηνιατρική φροντίδα
🔹 Σταδιακή προσαρμογή σε αλλαγές
🔹 Κοινωνικοποίηση & εκπαίδευση
🔹 Δημιουργία ασφαλούς καταφυγίου
🔹 Αναγνώριση σημαδιών στρες
Πλήρες άρθρο: https://thespet.blogspot.com/2026/02/proetoimasia-skiliou-gia-erxomo-morou-sto-spiti.html
#Dogs #Pets #AnimalWelfare #PetCare #OpenKnowledge #ΖώαΣυντροφιάς #Κτηνιατρική #DogTraining #EthicalPetOwnership #AnimalBehavior
If decentralization is the future of social media, where millions or even billions of people share knowledge, then we can learn a lot from how the Open Knowledge Foundation (@okfn) and the Wikimedia Foundation (@wikimediafoundation) built cross-border, international movements with clear missions.
These two organizations are just two examples, but they demonstrate an important point: decentralization worked because communities were intentionally nurtured, not just because the technology was open.
The Fediverse, powered by the ActivityPub protocol, already has the technical capacity to thrive (UI tweaks aside).
What we still lack is the decentralization of communities, including shared ownership, coordination, and a mission that extends beyond individual instances.
Cc @eloquence @bjoernsta @_elena
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Openknowledge #Wikimedia #Decentralization #SocialMedia
@mellifluousbox I’m reminded of my early days at the Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn , first as a volunteer and later as an ambassador in Brazil.
After some time, I suggested forming a local group. Due to my involvement, I later worked as a consultant. A member of the core organization coordinated local leadership, supported ambassadors, and held open meetings periodically. That structure was important.
Out of that structure, I founded Open Knowledge Brasil @okbr , which I ran for years before moving to Europe. Being close to people with strong communication and advocacy skills was invaluable, that's where I learned the most.
Today, I see similar energy in the Fediverse, with accounts such as @FediTips and @mastodonmigration. There are also communication professionals, for example, @hpod16 runs a highly strategic account for the @EUCommission. Or people like @bjoernsta , leading the awesome campaign #SaveSocial .
Resources may be limited, but there is clearly a passionate and capable community.
It might be worthwhile to find ways to involve and coordinate this existing expertise more intentionally.
Hello Fediverse! 👋
We are the Kula: Library Futures Academy, a transdisciplinary collider space and incubator at the University of Victoria Libraries.
We explore the changing nature of knowledge creation, preservation, and dissemination—asking what the "library of the future" truly looks like. 🔮
📍We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
Follow us for updates on:
🔹 Open Knowledge & Scholarship
🔹 Knowledge Resilience
🔹 Knowledge Democracy
🔹 Our Open Access KULA Journal
#Introduction #Libraries #CdnLib #UVic #AcademicMastodon #KnowledgeDemocracy #OpenKnowledge #OpenScholarship
Open knowledge powers AI, but at what cost?
Today’s AI systems are fuelled by Wikimedia content. At a recent roundtable in Lausanne, a key question emerged:
How can Wikimedia remain fully accessible to all while avoiding the risk of becoming 'invisible infrastructure' for AI systems that are used on a massive scale but are harder to sustain?
This tension is explored in the event report, along with the reasons why it matters now.
Super exciting to present at #EverythingOpen today with Rebecca Barber from ANU! Also what an awesome day for #GLAM sessions and some really interesting discussions around data ownership and privacy.
More fulsome notes to come, but these are the summary ~vibes of each session:
🔑 Keynote: “Peak Text: AI and the Golden Age of Libraries and Archives” by Keir Winesmith, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
😎 Vibe: A galvanising affirmation of serving the public good.
🎙️Session: “I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy insight into librarianship” by @hugh, La Trobe University
😎 Vibe: A warm hug for the weary soul.
🎙️Session: “A university library’s journey in making tech training resources FAIR” by Stéphane Guillou, The University of Queensland
😎 Vibe: Quietly leading with practical expertise.
🎙️Session: ”How one ISO standard led the way for national library infrastructure” by @saera, CAVAL
😎 Vibe: Actively equitable and gets the thing done.
🎙️ Session: “My degoogled life” by Joshua Hesketh, Grafana Labs
😎 Vibe: Seriously amused and terrifyingly pragmatic.
Check out the schedule and keep an eye out for the recordings! https://lnkd.in/g3qzqsSd
#EO26 #CAUL #Libraries #HigherEducation #OpenKnowledge #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #OpenEducation
[위키피디아 25년 만의 대전환, AI 기업들과 유료 계약 체결
위키피디아가 25년 만에 처음으로 AI 기업들과 유료 계약 체결하며, AI 시대의 생존 전략을 모색하고 있다. AI 봇의 대량 스크래핑으로 인한 서버 비용 증가와 방문자 감소, 콘텐츠 품질 저하 등의 문제를 해결하기 위해 상업적 유료 계약을 체결한 것.
https://news.hada.io/topic?id=25976
#wikipedia #ai #openknowledge #datascraping #commercialcontract
🔔 Tomorrow! Fact-checking with Wikidata workshop
📆 20 January 2026 | 🕟 16:30–18:00 (UTC+1)
Philippe Saadé (Wikimedia Germany) and @DataTalks.Club host a hands-on workshop using the Wikidata Model Context Protocol (MCP) for fact-checking beyond generative AI.
✔ Wikidata intro
✔ Fact-checking with MCP, Large Language Models (LLM) & semantic search
✔ Build a small fact-checking pipeline
👉 Register now: https://luma.com/7fs5v7os
#Wikidata #FactChecking #OpenKnowledge #LLM #GenAI #Workshop
on #lastTuesday of January 2026
we will discuss this and other #openKnowledge topics
in program of Multimedia Institute's klub MaMa in Zagreb
https://mi2mama.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Wikipedia@25/20260127
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
Bei der Auswertung des Quiz bekommt ihr eine Visualisierung eures Nutzungsverhaltens. Wir gestalten die Zukunft von Wikipedia und offenem Wissen gerne als "The Consensus-Driven Collaborator" mit. Wie sieht es bei euch aus?
Con grats! 25 Jahre Wikipedia. 25 große Meilensteine für offenes Wissen und offene Daten! @wikipedia
Wollt ihr auch mitfeiern? Goodies, Testimonials und ganz viel zur Geschichte des Portals hat die Foundation auf ihrer Website zusammengestellt! Außerdem gibt es ein Quiz zur Zukunft von Wikipedia, in dem ihr auch ganz viel über euch selbst erfahrt.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/
@wikimediafoundation
@wikimediaDE
@wikidata
#openData #openKnowledge #wikipedia #birthday
⏰ Reminder! Fact-checking with Wikidata workshop
📆 20 January 2026 | 🕟 16:30–18:00 (UTC+1)
Philippe Saadé (Wikimedia Germany) and @DataTalks.Club host a hands-on workshop using the Wikidata Model Context Protocol (MCP) for fact-checking beyond generative AI.
✔ Wikidata intro
✔ Fact-checking with MCP, Large Language Models (LLM) & semantic search
✔ Build a small fact-checking pipeline
👉 Register now: https://luma.com/7fs5v7os
#Wikidata #FactChecking #OpenKnowledge #LLM #GenAI #Workshop
Ciao a tutti! Sto creando l’interfaccia utente per un **Aggregatore di informazioni sulla politica italiana**. Non deve essere un giornale ma un meticoloso elenco ed insieme di informazioni (anche rielaborate ma *sine ira et studio*). Lo scopo è quello di essere un **monito**, di **sfatare miti**
------->CONTINUA NEI COMMENTI (non ho più caratteri)
#politicaitaliana #storiaitaliana #giornalismo #democrazia
#riflessioni #historicalmemory #opendata #noprofit #openknowledge
#media #politica
📅 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 – 𝟭𝟱 𝗝𝗮𝗻 | 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀
A full day on open heritage & the public domain at KBR:
🔹 Keynotes & policy insights
🔹 Belgian & European tracks
🔹 Creative reuse & hands-on workshops (CommonsDB, Tapestries)
𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝟕 𝐉𝐚𝐧.
👉 𝑱𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚! https://meemoo.be/en/training-and-events/public-domain-day-in-europe-2026
🏛️ Happy New Year 2026 from Wiki Loves Monuments!
As we step into 2026, we celebrate the stories, heritage, and monuments that connect us across time and place. Here’s to a year of discovery, documentation, and sharing the beauty of our world’s cultural treasures.
Let’s make 2026 a year to preserve history together!
#WikiLovesMonuments #WLM2026 #HappyNewYear #CulturalHeritage #PreserveHistory #OpenKnowledge #WikiCommunity
🎉 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗱-𝗼𝗳-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁!
🔹 Looking back on 2025
🔹 Public Domain Day 2026 (January 15, Brussels)
🔹 How you can contribute to free knowledge
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀.
✨ 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲!
👉🏻𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆?
https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter/2025-12
@davidlohner @newsletter @StefanTSiegel @silvia_retzlaff
Wird es auch auf peertube o.ö. veröffentlicht ?
#edu
#OpenKnowledge
Falls jmd DS machen wollte, unter welcher Lizenz ?
Cc-by
..
Oder ganz frei ?
#you2peer
“Like the baobab sustains life, libraries sustain community knowledge across generations, preserving equitable access to knowledge as scholarly communication systems develop and evolve.
We must continue to support alternative publishing methods, like APOS, and, in the face of skyrocketing subscription prices and APCs, provide infrastructure for knowledge dissemination.”
— Andiswa Mfengu via Katina Magazine
