We are looking back at years of complaints about how Wikimedia technology is outdated and exclusive. Non-encyclopedic forms of knowledge are still impossible or hard to insert into our existing formats. The last big innovation from our movement is Wikidata, which is now almost ten years old. Movement Strategy calls on us to innovate our technical and social systems so that new and marginalized communities can join and share their knowledge. We talk about the UNLOCK accelerator program, how it is being implemented in collaboration with WMS and WMDE this year, and explore how the movement can become more of an innovation ecosystem.

With our guests:

Kannika Thaimai, Program lead of the UNLOCK accelerator at Wikimedia Deutschland

Ivana Madžarević, Program and Community Support Manager at Wikimedia Serbia

Links:

Inspiring Women

https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org/podcast-item/islam-elbeiti/

Wiki Learn Platform

https://learn.wiki/

Soundlogo of Wikimedia

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo

CEE regional event

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2022

Wikiindaba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba

UNLOCK Accelerator 2022

https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/

Innovation paper

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Innovation_Engine/Building_an_ecosystem_to_innovate_in_free_knowledge

Audiopedia

https://www.audiopedia.org/

GovDirectory

https://www.govdirectory.org/

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