Wikimédia Europe
| Wikimédia Europe | |
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 Membres de Wikimédia Europe | |
| Lieu | Bruxelles, Belgique et à distance |
| Code d’affilié | WMEU |
| Code de pays ISO | EU |
| Statut légal | Association internationale sans but lucratif (AISBL) |
| Date de fondation | 13 janvier 2023 – reconnaissance officielle |
| Bureau principal | Région de Bruxelles-Capitale |
| Membres | 31 (Membres de Wikimédia Europe) |
| Personnel | 5 |
| Président | Claudia Garád |
| Secrétaire | Alek Tarkowski |
| trésorier /trésorière | Capucine-Marin Dubroca-Voisin |
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| Personnes clés |
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| Document d’incorporation | Statuts |
| Budget | 800 000 EUR (2025) |
| Liste de diffusion | updates wikimedia-europe eu |
Wikimedia Europe est établi dans le but de fournir une entité légale partagée et une plateforme commune aux organisations Wikimedia en Europe, et fait partie du Mouvement Wikimedia mondial.
Nos principaux objectifs sont de :
- favoriser la collaboration entre les Wikimédiens européens afin de faire progresser l'accès à la connaissance en Europe,
- fournir une voix publique défendant un internet d'intérêt public, et
- lutter pour la liberté et les droits fondamentaux à l'ère numérique.
Wikimédia Europe ou WMEU est une association internationale sans but lucratif (aisbl) fondée en 2023 en selon le droit belge et dont le siège est à Bruxelles.
Membres
En avril 2025, Wikimédia Europe représente 31 mouvements affiliés Wikimédia, incluant des Chapitres Nationaux, des Groupes d'utilisateurs et des Organisations Thématiques dont le siège est en Europe.
Jetez un coup d'œil à la liste mise à jour des membres de Wikimedia Europe.
Informations pour les nouveaux membres
You can check out our presentation for newcomers and potential future members of Wikimedia Europe.
Création du réseau européen
On 20 July 2022 at the meeting of incorporated Wikimedia affiliates, representatives of 21 affiliates seated in Europe confirmed their organisations' commitment to found Wikimedia Europe. In 2023 the association was officially incorporated under Belgian law, seating in Brussels.
Although newly established, Wikimedia Europe was building upon the legacy of the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU, and leveraged a 10-year history in public policy design and advocacy in the area of digital rights, paired with extensive tech expertise.
Read about the founding process of Wikimedia Europe
- Wikimedia Europe/EU policy qualitative study report
- Wikimedia Europe/EU policy – structural implications focus group report
Lire nos documents fondateurs
Conseil d’administration
Current Board (2025–2026)
| Photo | Nom | Nom d’utilisateur Wikimedia | Seat | Term | Rôle | Affiliation |
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Claudia Garád | Élu
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2025–2027
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Président
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Wikimedia Austria | |
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Capucine-Marin Dubroca-Voisin |
Élu
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Trésorier
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Wikimedia France | ||
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Marian Grubben | Élu
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Membre
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Rebecca MacKinnon | Désigné
(20 mai 2025) |
Membre
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N/A | ||
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Alek Tarkowski | Élu
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Secrétaire
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Open Future |
Conseil d'administration initial (2023 - 2025)
| Nom | Nom d’utilisateur Wikimedia | Siège | Terme | Rôle | Affiliation |
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| Claudia Garád | Élu
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2022–2025[1]
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Président
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Wikimedia Austria | |
| Capucine-Marin Dubroca-Voisin |
Élu
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Trésorier
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Wikimedia France | ||
| Rebecca MacKinnon | Nommée
(22 août 2022) |
Membre
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N/A | ||
| Gonçalo Themudo | Élu
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Secrétaire
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Wikimedia Portugal | ||
| Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz | Ancien Secrétaire
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Wikimedia Poland |
Résolutions du conseil d'administration
Staff
| Nom | Position | Ask me about | Courriel |
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| Anna Mazgal | Directeur exécutif | Strategy, governance, financial sustainability | anna.mazgalwikimedia-europeeu
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| Dimi Zagorski | Policy Director | Child protection, copyright & AI, disinformation, content moderation & platform regulation, EU advocacy, policy positions | dimiwikimediabe
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| Michele Failla | Lead EU Law & Policy Advisor | Media regulation, protection of fundamental rights & against malicious lawsuits (SLAPPs), disinformation, content moderation & platform regulation, protection of minors, EU advocacy, policy positions | michele.faillawikimedia-europeeu
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| Valentina Calcagno | Fundraising Manager | Financial health, current EU Funding opportunities, support to members in their fundraising | valentina.calcagnowikimedia-europeeu
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| Van Anh Dam | Network Management Specialist | Membership development, capacity building opportunities | vananh.damwikimedia-europeeu
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| Peter Swaelen | Finance and Operations Officer | TBC | peter.swaelenwikimedia-europeeu
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Strategy renewal
At the General Assembly in Prague 2025, members came together to reflect on values, explore priorities, and offer input into the direction of our 2030 strategy. Based on outcomes of the meeting and other contributions still being gathered, strategy drafts will be developed and later consolidated in 2025. Further details and updates will be shared regularly with members via Wikimedia Europe Updates mailing list and on this meta page.
Advocacy
The EU Policy initiative aims at coordinating the European Wikimedia chapters so they can have a unified and clear position on major legislative and political changes affecting the vision, mission and values of the Wikimedia movement.
In 2025 our main areas of engagement are:
- Child protection & age verification: Explaining how the Wikimedia communities and the Wikimedia Foundation are working together to protect children on the projects and participating in the discussions about which online platforms should preform mandatory age verification. Our position is that age verification would act as an additional barrier to accessing knowledge and should therefore only be mandated for the highest risk platforms.
- Content moderation: A large part of our work is to follow up on all the legislative conversations and proposals that touch upon how content moderation is performed, by users and by service providers. The main framework for this is the Digital Services Act. Here we are supporting the Wikimedia Foundation, including by providing input to the various guidelines the European Commission is issuing.
- AI: We are currently part of a lot of discussions and consultation related to AI and our projects. This includes copyright, attribution and citations, usage of tools for content moderation and generation, usage of Wikimedia content for training and the economics of the knowledge ecosystem. Our challenge for 2025 is to pull all these loose threads in a coherent strategy and message.
- GDPR simplification: The European Commission is expected to propose a reform to reduce the administrative burden under the EU's data protection framework for medium sized companies and nonprofits. We exploring the potential to lessen the burden and cost for the Wikimedia Foundation within this legislative change.
- Geoblocking: The European Union is expected to revamp its geoblocking rules. We are part of the deliberations taking the position that geoblocking is often a hurdle to accessing and verifying sources, which are essential for citations on the projects.
We publish a monthly Monitoring Report on Meta and on the public policy mailing list (publicpolicylistswikimediaorg). It provides updates on all these topics and more.
Capacity building | Collaborative Community Development
Supporting the European Wikimedia chapters is a core task within our mission. We aim to foster collaboration between European Wikimedians to empower individuals and organisations, strengthening the Wikimedia Movement’s impact in Europe. By working collectively, we achieve greater effectiveness than individual efforts alone, thereby advancing access to knowledge in Europe.
Ecosystem Sensemaking
Goal: Understand who we are as Network community, what unites us, and what we need to grow and act collectively.
We are currently mapping needs of European affiliates in order to provide tailor made structural support in the future.
Get in touch with us for further information on network mapping and capacity building at (vananh.damwikimedia-europeeu).
To see how we supported our members and communities in 2024 check the fundraising section.
Current status & next steps:
- Key activities areas mapping completed as of November 2025. Further mapping in process to include activity formats, campaigns etc. and to be presented during General Assembly in April 2026.
- Network 2025 overview mini-booklet to be shared in first half of 2026.
- Monthly Bulletin (shared on Updates mailing list) with overview of network, regional and movement news launched in June 2025.
Collaboration Facilitation
Goal: Create shared practices and spaces for collaboration within Network community that work across diverse contexts
Current status & next steps:
Collaborative Community Development Brief created as input to strategy renewal, including guiding values, principles and priorities to be followed in WMEU Network community building. First Wikimedia Europe Working Groups piloted. First EuroMixer networking event planned.
Network specialist to draft and propose plans for 2026-2027 activities that facilitate collaboration.
Goal: Strengthen Network community's collective ability to act, advocate, and sustain impact across the region.
Current status & next steps:
First capacity building activities introduced, including fundraising bootcamp. Ongoing work on collaborative events playbook - quick guide to shaping wiki events in a way that enhances networking opportunities.
Continued planning of activities, including creation of onboarding toolkit in collaboration with CEE Hub.
Collecte de fonds
Wikimedia Europe organises and conducts fundraising activities to support free knowledge where the required efforts exceed capacities of the members as individual entities in the Wikimedia Movement.
Fundraising activities are aimed both to support the members in their fundraising efforts and raise funds for ensuring the organisation can carry out its statutory objectives as mandated by the members.
All fundraising activities are conducted in accordance with Wikimedia Europe's fundraising policy.
Support for members
We do our best to help our members and friends access new funding sources. Our offering currently include tailored support (e.g., advice on funding strategy), a monthly newsletter with curated funding opportunities ("Moneypot"), and periodic capacity-building activities on selected topics (e.g., bootcamps).
For more details, take a look at our Fundraising support for members and Fundraising collaboration framework in Wikimedia Europe's fundraising policy.
Highlights of 2025
- We supported our members in familiarising themselves with new relevant EU programmes, including the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme and Creative Europe.
- We launched Moneypot, the monthly newsletter with curated fundraising opportunities for our members and friends, focused on transnational collaboration opportunities from institutional sources (e.g., the EU), foundations, and other sources.
- We ran the Masters of Grants bootcamp, our pilot fundraising capacity-building initiative to bring external experts’ insights into the Movement. Curious to see the materials and learn more about how it went? Consult the dedicated page: Masters of Grants Bootcamp.
- We developed the 2030 fundraising strategy (fortcoming).
The year in numbers: (forthcoming)
Highlights of 2024
- We launched an initiative to support Wikimedia affiliates in Europe with accessing European Union funding, especially the Erasmus+ programme. This effort was driven by members’ requests to explore possibilities within the EU funding framework.
- We Introduced our fundraising policy and members support framework.
The year in numbers:
- 45 hours advising affiliates 1-on-1 on fundraising and proposals in 2024
- 21 structured conversations with members on their needs and experiences
- 10 affiliates and movement structures received assistance in their fundraising questions and proposal development
Financial transparency
Wikimedia Europe is committed to rely on steady, diversified and ethical funding to ensure its independence, safeguard its reputation and maintain donor trust.
Check out our 2024 financial transparency report to learn more about our sources of funding
Projects
Brief overviews of projects implemented by Wikimedia Europe beyond regular activities. For more details visit Wikimedia Europe Projects page.
DEM-Debate
The DEM-Debate project aims to fill this gap by exploring whether, and how, the fact-checking and moderation practices used by Wikipedia during the 2024 European Parliament election have enhanced the reliability of the information ecosystem. It also seeks to determine if these practices can be transferred to other online contexts, fostering an environment that nurtures a more democratic debate.
DEM-Debate is a 18 month participatory research initiative run by Wikimedia Europe, the University of Amsterdam and Eurecat – Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya and the Wikimedia communities in Europe. It is supported by the European Media and Information Fund – EMIF managed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
DEM-Debate kicked-off in September 2024 and will run until February 2026.
Read more on our blog.
Selected deliverables:
Rapports et Plans
Annual Reports and Plans
| Activity reports | Rapports financiers | Annual budget plans | Annual work plans |
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Assemblée générale
The General Assembly (GA) is the highest governing body in the organisation and is composed of member organisations with voting rights.
The GA meets once a year in Prague and once online.
| Année | GA Report |
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| 2025 |
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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Information and documents
Restez au courant !
Vous pouvez rejoindre les listes de diffusion suivantes pour obtenir des mises à jour de notre part :
Mises à jour (updateswikimedia-europeeu) - il s'agit d'une liste de toutes les nouvelles relatives à Wikimedia Europe, à nos réunions, aux questions d'organisation et à l'activité du Conseil d'Administration. Les personnes qui reçoivent ces courriels sont à la fois des représentants officiels de leurs organisations auprès du WMEU et d'autres personnes de ces organisations et groupes qui souhaitent être informées des affaires internes de Wikimedia Europe. Si vous ou quelqu'un d'autre de votre organisation souhaitez y participer - faites-le nous savoir et nous ferons en sorte que cela se produise[3][4].
Liste des politiques publiques (publicpolicylistswikimediaorg) - il s'agit d'une liste publique pour partager des mises à jour politiques, rechercher des expériences et des perspectives sur des questions générales de politique et de plaidoyer - à la fois par nous à Bruxelles et par nos abonnés. Les abonnés sont des experts en politique et en plaidoyer, des enthousiastes et des adeptes de Wikimedia et d'autres organisations, y compris des institutions de l'UE, des médias et des entités avec lesquelles nous avons parfois des positions opposées dans les débats politiques. Elle a un trafic modéré et sert à partager un condensé mensuel très apprécié sur la politique de Bruxelles préparé par Dimi[5][6][7].
If you wish to join Wikimedia Europe or receive updates, please reach out to us at (vananh.damwikimedia-europeeu)
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Privacy and transparency
- 2024 financial transparency report
- Obligations de transparence de l'employeur
- Politique de confidentialité
- Politique de l'UE - orientation stratégique et Stratégie de Mouvement 2030
Notes
- ↑ The 2-year Board term runs from the official incorporation of the organisation in January 2023
- ↑ Maciej resigned due to his appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
- ↑ Niveau de confidentialité : à moins que l'auteur d'un message ne le spécifie différemment (par exemple à des fins de protection des données), vous êtes libre de faire suivre ces messages à vos collègues, au conseil d'administration et aux membres de votre organisation.
- ↑ Les personnes qui ne sont pas ajoutées au groupe ne peuvent pas envoyer de messages à ses membres.
- ↑ Niveau de confidentialité : la liste a une archive publique consultable, elle n'est donc pas adaptée à la transmission d'informations confidentielles. Vous êtes libre de faire suivre ces messages à n'importe qui, à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de votre organisation.
- ↑ Les personnes qui ne sont pas ajoutées à la liste ne peuvent pas envoyer de messages à ses membres.
- ↑ Tout le monde peut s'inscrire, après approbation de l'administrateur.