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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| 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.
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.
What legislative files are we working on?
In 2026 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 perform 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, infrastructure and the economics of the knowledge ecosystem. Our challenge for 2025 is to pull all these loose threads in a coherent strategy and message.
- Simplification vs. Deregulation: We participate in the debates on the EU on how to streamline the various EU rulebooks. This includes data governance, data protection, reporting mechanism, liability regimes.
- Protecting Our Users: Wikimedia users need to be protected. Their ability to edit is being regularly risked by unwise legal proposals, such as an obligation to use real names online. Another risky factor is our users being taken to court based on various laws, such as content moderation and data protection rules. We look at this aspect whenever we are working on these files.
- 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.