Wikimania Advocacy Workshop/Documentation
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Workshop slide deck
[edit]Presentation slides updated with notes from the event.
Pre-read material
[edit]- Wikimedia Foundation Child Rights Impact Assessment report, which highlights the risks that young people face across Wikimedia projects as well as recommendations for how these risks might be addressed.
- UK Online Safety Act: Open letter campaign & blog covering how this law harms Wikipedia.
- Findings from the Santiago advocacy conference, which highlight next steps that the advocacy network could take as well as capacity-building desires.
Further reading material
[edit]UK Online Safety Act
[edit]Initial monitoring and analysis
- 2022 WMF blog outlining how harmful the proposed bill could be for Wikimedia
- 2022 WMF blog covering early impressions of initial text analysis
Campaign work to influence debates about the bill
- June 2023 WMUK + WMF open letter campaign
- September 2023 WMF last public call to Parliament
- Independent media coverage: The Independent
- Independent media coverage: BBC
- Independent media coverage: The Guardian
Once the bill became a law
- September 2023 WMF comments on final decisions to make the bill a LAW