How the Wikipedia model can help improve platform regulation: Recommendations for future policy-making from the DEM-DEBATE Project
https://wikimedia.brussels/how-the-wikipedia-model-can-help-improve-platform-regulation-recommendations-for-future-policy-making-from-the-dem-debate-project/
Published: June 5, 2026 15:01
The DEM-Debate project spent almost two years investigating how Wikipedia addressed disinformation during the 2024 European elections through legal and computational analyses. This final report, produced by researchers from the University of Amsterdam and…
Open Knowledge in the Age of Extractive Digital Ecosystem
https://wikimedia.brussels/open-knowledge-in-the-age-of-extractive-digital-ecosystem/
Published: May 5, 2026 13:51
Written by Camille Françoise (WMFR) and Michele Failla (WMEU). The article was originally published in the European University Institute Policy Report on Open Internet co-edited by Patryk Pawlak and Nils Berglund. The evolution of economic models in a…
25 Years of Wikipedia
https://wikimedia.brussels/25-years-of-wikipedia/
Published: March 23, 2026 10:42
On 18 March, Wikimedia Europe and Wikimedia Belgium brought together a room full of people who care deeply about one of the internet’s most quirkiest and perhaps most surprising achievements: 25 years of Wikipedia. Think about what that actually means. A…
THE DEM-Debate project came to an end: the final event
https://wikimedia.brussels/the-dem-debate-project-came-to-an-end-the-final-event/
Published: February 26, 2026 15:53
On February 24, the DEM-Debate partners – Wikimedia Europe, the University of Amsterdam and Eurecat – Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya – gathered at the European Parliament in Brussels for the final event of the DEM-Debate project. This was the occasion for…
The Architecture conflict vs. the architecture of collaboration
https://wikimedia.brussels/the-architecture-conflict-vs-the-architecture-of-collaboration/
Published: February 19, 2026 11:13
Open your social media feed. Within thirty seconds you will likely have seen something engineered to provoke you — a post calibrated by an algorithm to raise your cortisol, confirm your suspicions about the “other side”, or send you spiralling into an…