Dear all,
The date and time for our next quarterly call has been set; thank you all
for filling out the Doodle poll.
The call will take place on Friday, *June 6 @ 13:30 - 15:00 UTC* (check
your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1749216600>). The specific
agenda will be set collaboratively ahead of time. It will take place on
Zoom.
👉 Register for the call (and receive a calendar hold):
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/-gflb6_sTHufuTF3WZfG2g
See you there!
Ziski
___
**Call details:** The purpose of these calls is to collaborate on
priorities for the year, and to ensure that members of our movement can
share learnings and hone our outreach, advocacy, and impact on policy
efforts. The specific agenda will be set collaboratively ahead of time.
Our 2025 working groups are currently the following:
- Copyright
- Shared definitions of key terms and concept
- Policy Position Primers
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
UTC Timezone
Hello!
A month full of child protection, GDPR simplification and ISBNs. Huh!?
ISBNs? Read on!
Dimi
=== Child Protection===
The European Commission has published draft guidelines on the protection of
minors <https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/115476>
under the DSA. This is intended to give a more precise explanation of how
the DSA rules can be complied with. Essentially, they leave it up to
platforms to self-assess risks and determine the appropriate level of age
assurance, apart from a few very specific cases like adult content, alcohol
and gambling. The Wikimedia Foundation will provide public feedback, expect
more information in next month’s report..
Denmark has strongly criticized the Commission's approach, advocating
instead for mandatory age verification for social media. It has joined
France and Spain demanding stricter rules
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EPf1EKqefLtSkdQbbxCSTaFMpXEHZGXg/view?usp=…>.
Denmark will take over the rotating Council Presidency in the second half
of this year. Meanwhile, France, Greece, Italy, Denmark and Spain have
signed up to pilot the Commission’s proposed EU age verification app (EFF’s
explainer here
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-european-union-mini-…>
).
Simultaneously, the European Parliament is working on a draft
non-legislative report on child protection
<https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/IMCO-PR-772053_EN.pdf>. It
currently contains a suggestion to ban addictive design patterns (e.g.
“infinite scroll”), influencer marketing of unhealthy behaviors, and to set
up a rapid alert system for harmful online trends. It critiques the
fragmented national approaches, including with regards to age-verification,
and calls for horizontal EU legislation.
While there seems to be a growing consensus that age verification must be
addressed, the level at which this should happen is still being debated.
Service providers argue that app stores or operating systems should be
responsible, while app stores and operating systems claim the opposite. The
“verification by app stores” camps seems to be slowly gaining the upper
hand. The Commission has not yet put its weight behind either position.
Notably, the Commission also says it won’t address
<https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-10-2025-001727-ASW_EN.pdf>
mandatory verification in the planned 2025 DSA review.
Why it matters for Wikimedia:
Rules on minors’ protection and age verification could impact Wikimedia
projects depending on their scope. Even beyond our projects, they could
hamper access to citations or sources or carry privacy risks. At the same
time, safety of all users online, including minors, is also fundamental to
the functioning of the knowledge ecosystem.
=== GDPR Simplification===
The Commission has published its proposal
<https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/simplification_en>
to slightly simplify Europe’s infamous data protection rulebook. It wants
to raise a mid-cap threshold, which currently simplifies record-keeping
obligations for organisations up to 250 employees. Originally it was
expected that the ceiling would be raised to 500, but in the last days
before the proposal was published, the benchmark was set at 750 staff.
Why it matters for Wikimedia:
Considering that the Wikimedia Foundation stays below 750 employees, it
will benefit from the reduced record-keeping obligations currently handled
by the Privacy team.
=== Democracy Shield ===
Wikimedia Europe submitted feedback
<https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/1…>
on the European Democracy Shield initiative. This is a planned,
non-legislative communication by the European Commission that is supposed
to lay out measures for the protection of democracy and information
integrity.
Why it matters for Wikimedia:
We emphasised the need to systemically think of collaborative, community
driven projects when proposing new measures, rules and regulations and
floated a so-called “Wikipedia Test”. See our blog post
<https://wikimedia.brussels/european-democracy-shield-we-shared-our-views-wi…>
for more details.
=== DSA Fees ===
The Commission is preparing changes
<https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/1…>
to the DSA supervisory fees for very large online platforms and search
engines (VLOPs and VLOSEs). It has yet to provide detailed proposals.
Why it matters for Wikimedia:
Wikipedia is a VLOP. Currently the fees are calculated based on profits,
which means that the Wikimedia Foundation is de facto exempt. Should this
change, it could mean additional cost.
=== AI, Copyright & ISBN Numbers ===
Italy, Spain, and Portugal are lobbying
<https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8188-2025-REV-1/en/pdf>
for stronger protections of copyrighted content in AI training. They are
currently urging the Commission to require unique identifiers like ISBNs in
AI training transparency reports. This would help track and limit the use
of protected works by generative models, they claim. Currently the AI Act
demands developers to publish information about the sources they used for
training, but the obligation is vague.
Why it matters for Wikimedia:
We care about information integrity and the ability to trace sources.
Simultaneously we are traditionally very sceptical of extending
intellectual property rights or related requirements that make sharing
knowledge harder. We are also worried about generative AI models
hallucinating citations and sources, including ISBNs.
===END===
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Wikimedia Europe ivzw
Hi everyone,
Happy end of the week and end of the month!
This email contains an overview of internet governance discussions
taking place in June and July, as well as conference details and other
reminders to mark in your calendars.
- - - -
*June & July event overview*
This blog post
<https://wikimediapolicy.medium.com/join-the-wikimedia-foundation-to-discuss…>
provides
an overview of all the international events where we'll be participating in
internet governance discussions on topics including AI and open source
technology.
*June 3 deadline | June 16 in-person edit-a-thon*
If you're in NYC on June 16, make sure you register to join an edit-a-thon
at UN headquarters! As part of UN Open Source Week 2025, WMF is
co-organizing this edit-a-thon with Wikimedia NYC and the Permanent
Missions of Italy and Sri Lanka to the UN. The event will celebrate UN
history and the 70th anniversary of the admission of the Italian Republic
to the UN with Wikimedia & the Permanent Mission of Italy
[image: 🔗] Space is limited – register here by June 3:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=2zWeD09UYE-9zF6kFu…
*June 6 | Advocacy Network Quarterly Call*
Our next network call will take place on Friday, *June 6 @ 13:30 - 15:00
UTC* (check your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1749216600>).
I will reach out next week with reminders to help set the agenda. It will
take place on Zoom.
[image: 🔗] Register for the call :
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/-gflb6_sTHufuTF3WZfG2g
*June 15 | Proposal deadline for GLAM Wiki Conference*
Call for submissions closing soon! GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 will take
place from 30 October - 01 November, 2025, in Lisbon, Portugal.
This year’s conference theme, *Resilience: Shaping the Future Through
Community and Openness*, is relevant to the work many of you promote in
your policy advocacy. I highly encourage you to share your expertise and
experiences to inspire others at the conference to help shape a regulatory
ecosystem that supports open knowledge.
[image: 🔗] Learn more: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2025
- - - -
Have a beautiful end to the week,
Ziski
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
UTC Timezone
Hi everyone,
I hope you're looking forward to the weekend, I know I am!
The Luminate newsletter below has some great resources which I found
aligned well with the work some of you are doing. It includes opportunities
related to funding as well as inspiration for those of you
increasingly exploring where the work of Wikimedians overlaps with that of
other organizations dedicated to helping the public access verifiable
information. Notably, public interest media and journalists.
*Excerpts worth highlighting*:
- 💸 Fundo de Apoio ao Jornalismo
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0LGO3CAQxvGnMR0WDGOMC4o0W-YVooG…>
is
dedicated to strengthening local journalism in Brazil, providing funding
and resources to public interest media committed to plurality, diversity,
and the public interest. They launched a national call to select up to 15
local journalism organizations, which will receive institutional and
financial support and specialized mentoring for a period of up to three
years, with annual resources between R$75,000.00 and R$150,000.00 per
initiative. (💡 @João Alexandre Peschanski <joalpe(a)wmnobrasil.org> )
- 📚 Apply to join the South-to-South AI Accountability CoLab’s Peer
Learning Circles
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkb3u2zAMxJ_G2hjog5blwUOXjH2FgqS…>,
where civil society leaders and researchers from the Global South can
collaborate to examine AI’s real-world impacts and advocate for systems
that serve the public interest. This includes close partners of ours such
as EngageMedia and Code4Africa. Deadlines to apply:
- June 9 deadline | South and Southeast Asia
- June 23 deadline | Africa
- July 7 deadline | Latin America
Best,
Ziski
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Date: Fri, May 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Subject: Tech justice in action: The critical role of public interest media
To: <fputz(a)wikimedia.org>
Welcome to our May newsletter! In this edition, we explore how our partners
support tech justice thr
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Welcome to our May newsletter! In this edition, we explore how our partners
support tech justice through public interest journalism.
As technology reshapes how our stories are mediated, amplified, or
censored, public interest media provides the crucial oversight that holds
tech companies accountable for their products, practices, and societal
impacts.
At Luminate, we believe addressing the unchecked harms and outsized power
of these companies require an ecosystem approach – fostering collaboration
between journalists, policymakers, litigators, and civil society to ensure
technology respects human rights and social justice.
*Highlights:*
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*Tech justice in action*: Luminate partners are creating new models for
investigative journalism that hold tech power to account.
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*Protecting journalists worldwide*: Learn about our continued support
for organisations providing essential resources for journalists under
threat.
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*Stories that matter*: Read investigations from our partners and hear
from our staff about how this work is having an impact.
Investigative journalism in the age of AI and algorithms
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Our partners are challenging power on the frontlines to expose algorithmic
bias and AI manipulation. Learn about the real-world impact of some of the
organisations we support:
*🤝🏼 Collaborative investigations for the digital age*
An investigation
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkTuunjAQRleDOyM_BtsUFGkos4VoPB6…>
by *Lighthouse Reports* and *Svenska Dagbladet, *supported by *Amnesty
International*’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab and several academic
institutions, uncovered evidence of algorithmic bias in Sweden’s social
security system, which unjustly flagged marginalised groups for benefits
fraud inspections.
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The Head of the Green Party in Sweden opened a parliamentary
investigation into the Swedish welfare agency after their investigation
unveiled the discriminatory algorithm used by the social security agency.
A *Pulitzer Center*-supported investigation
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkTGu2zAQRE8jdmuQXJqSChVpXOYKwe5…>
by *Núcleo Journalismo* identified 14 Instagram accounts sharing
AI-generated content of child sexual exploitation, many of which directed
users to subscription content platforms where other child-exploitation
material could be accessed.
-
As a result of the investigation, Meta removed all profiles identified
and Senacon, Brazil's National Consumer Secretariat, opened
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0b3O2zwMBeCrsTYG1E9ke_DwLRm_Wyh…>
a monitoring procedure against the company.
🛠 *Engineering meets journalism*
Conducting the first field audit
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkbGu5SwQg58mdBzBMCGkSPE3Kf9XWA0…>
of Instagram’s content moderation algorithms, data from *The Markup, now a
part of CalMatters, *found that the platform consistently limited the
visibility of pro-Palestinian content and prevented users from appealing
moderation decisions.
-
Following their investigation, Meta restored content
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkbHO3CAMgJ8m2XwyhiNkyNDlxr5CZcB…>
featured in the investigation that had not violated their policies.
Building foundations for safe and brave journalism
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Journalists continue to be adaptable and bold in the face of threats,
censorship, and violence. To support them, we’re backing organisations that
create the conditions for journalism to thrive in challenging environments:
💸 *Unlocking new funding*
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Responding to the economic fragility of public interest media, the
International
Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0LGu2zAMheGnsTYFlCjL8qChS8a-QkF…>
helps to unlock new funding models and facilitates fair value exchange
between AI technology companies and journalism organisations.
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To counter the imbalance caused by digital platforms’ influence on
public debate, Fundo de Apoio ao Jornalismo
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0LGO3CAQxvGnMR0WDGOMC4o0W-YVooG…>
is dedicated to strengthening local journalism in Brazil, providing funding
and resources to public interest media committed to plurality, diversity,
and the public interest.
🌐 *Building skills, networks, and resources*
-
The *Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)* builds
infrastructure
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkbGO5CAQRL_GZD2CBmMTOLjE4f3CqYF…>
for the investigative journalism community to scrutinise everything from
digital threats to the role of AI in illicit finance.
-
The Civic Journalism Coalition
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkTuO3DAQRE8jZj3gTxQVKHCi0Fcwms2…>,
established by *European Digital Rights, Lighthouse Reports, *and *European
Center for Not-for-Profit Law*, brings together journalists and civil
society organisations to advocate for digital rights policies in the EU and
strengthen investigative journalism.
-
*IFPIM*'s CTRL+J
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0LGu2zAMheGnsTYZlETL8qChS8a-QkF…>
initiative fosters regional and global collaboration, designed to develop
strategies to tackle growing pressures on journalism in the Global South
amid technological upheaval.
⛑ *Increasing the safety and capacity of media workers*
-
Media Defence
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0Duu2zAQheHViB2F4UN8FCzSuMwWguF…>,
International Women’s Media Foundation
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkLGu2zAMRb_G2mRQEiPLg4cuGfsLBSm…>,
A Culture Of Safety (ACOS) Alliance
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0Duu2zAQheHViB2FITmiqEJFGpfZQjC…>,
and Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP)
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0L2u2zAMxfGnsTYZlMToY9DQJWNfoaA…>
provide
essential safety and protection to journalists targeted for their reporting.
-
Forbidden Stories
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkb2unDAQhZ8Gd4PGPxgoKNJsmVeIxmP…>
aims to secure the data and information of threatened journalists and, when
journalists are arrested or killed, to continue to publish their
investigative reporting.
-
The Media Freedom Project
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkLGu2zAMRb_G2hRQlCzLg4cuGfsLBUm…>
of the *Centre for Journalism Innovation & Development (CJID)* advocates
for press freedom and the welfare of journalists in West Africa through
research, advocacy, and capacity building.
Stories and voices that matter
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Through in-depth reporting and storytelling, our partners address the
increasing pace and scale of the harms technology and authoritarianism are
creating now:
-
Two investigations from *Forbidden Stories*, the Viktoriia Project
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkb1u5CAQx5_GdKyGgcW4oLjG5b1CNDD…>
and the Gaza Project
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMUb2O3CAQfhrTsRoGDLhwkWbLvMJpYJg…>,
reveal how technology was used to surveil and target journalists reporting
on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Forbidden Stories pursued their
investigations after they were killed.
-
When *Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ)* reporter Daniel
Ojukwu was abducted by police in May 2024, FIJ began to track
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0TGS3CAQheHTiKynoEFIBAqcKPQVXA0…>
press freedom violations in Nigeria – painting a worrying picture of press
freedom in decline.
-
Led by *Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística
(CLIP),* Innocence
at Risk
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0L2u3DoMBOCnsToZFEXLduHiNlveVwh…>
is a cross-border investigation that reveals the risks of online sexual
abuse faced by minors in Latin America on Facebook and other social
networks.
ICYMI: Luminate at the International Journalism Festival
We’re proud to be part of two important panels at the 2025 International
Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. Watch the full recordings:
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When removing bylines isn’t enough: How can journalists safely
investigate tech in 2025?
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkb2unDAQRp8Gd7PyH8YUFGm2zCtEY3s…>
featuring Media Defence’s Carlos Gaio, AI journalist Karen Hao, FIJ’s
'Fisayo Soyombo, and Luminate’s Alexandra Buccianti.
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Who speaks for Tech? Bias, power, and the global reporting divide
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0b2unDAQhuGrwd2s_IcxBUWaLXML0di…>
featuring Lighthouse Report’s Daniel Howden, Amnesty International’s Hajira
Maryam, Agência Pública’s Natalia Viana, and Luminate’s Elliott Fox.
Read, watch, and attend
📚* Read: *In *Empire of AI
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyM0b0O3CAQBOCnMd1asGAMhYs0LvMK0S4…>,*
Karen Hao reveals how OpenAI’s journey from nonprofit to a Microsoft-backed
company exemplifies the unchecked ambition driving today’s AI revolution.
👀 *Watch:* In her TED Talk
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkL2O2zAQhJ9G7CjwZ0VShYoDEpeX5qo…>,
Carole Cadwalladr of *The Citizens *decries the rise of the “broligarchy”
and urges collective action to reclaim democracy.
📅* Attend:* Join the South-to-South AI Accountability CoLab’s Peer
Learning Circles
<https://email.comms.luminategroup.com/c/eJyMkb3u2zAMxJ_G2hjog5blwUOXjH2FgqS…>,
where civil society leaders and researchers from the Global South can
collaborate to examine AI’s real-world impacts and advocate for systems
that serve the public interest.
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Hi all!
WMF is putting together a proposal for MozFest
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/proposals/>. The deadline is next week,
May 21.
The event will be from November 7–9 in Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, Spain
*Is anyone on this list planning to attend? *Please respond and let me
know! If so, it'd be great to brainstorm how we could show up together.
Best,
Ziski
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
UTC Timezone
Hi everyone,
Making sure this great event is on your radar. Our friends at Open Future
and the Digital Public Goods Alliance are presenting their whitepaper on
the future of Public AI. It explores how to make state-of-the-art AI more
accessible and accountable.
🗓️ May 20 @ 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
🔗 Join event: https://openfuture.eu/event/online-event-on-public-ai-2025/
Have a good week!
Ziski
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
UTC Timezone
Hi everyone.
Some might remember the 2019 recast of the EU PSI Directive (which is now
also called Open Data Directive) which has a nice round number EU/2019/1024
(https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/1024/oj). As a directive, it has
been transposed in EU member states and is also transposed/about to be
transposed into the EFTA states.
I was involved in the 2019 recast as a member of the staff of MEP Felix
Reda who wrote the opinion in the IMCO committee of the European Parliament
(the leading committee was ITRE:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0438_EN.html#_sectio…
)
The Directive has both a general principle on the reuse of content but also
paragraph about how to process requests for re-use.
Germany transposed the PSI-OD-Directive into the "Datennutzungsgesetz" in
2021 but left out the processing part for requests for re-use. I spoke to a
civil servant in the responsible ministry who was involved in the drafting
process and she stated that this was by design. Since the "general
principle" on re-use applies, there would be no use for requests any more.
This idea has been rejected by academic literature which still claims that
the possibility for requests remain embedded in the law
Long story short: After reading the literature, the directive and the law,
I believe that Germany has introduced a law that would allow liberating
content for re-use under license terms compatible with Wikimedia projects.
For a few weeks now, I have put this theory to the test and I have applied
for usage rights for various government documents, pictures etc. This has
been largely successful, but not without hickups. People in the
administration are usually confused by these requests and it takes them a
while to process them.
I would be interested to learn if anyone else in any other EU/EFTA state
has ever used the PSI-OD-Directive (and the transposed law) to force
government entities to release content under a free license.
This was the most concise way of describing this for me. I left out many
details in order to not turn this into a long paper. I am happy to
elaborate on details if requested.
Mathias
(there are some exceptions in the directive. GLAM institutions are not
fully within the scope of all parts of the directive and it is not as
simple to simply go to a museum or a library and tell them to give you a
license for stuff they own. Public broadcasting it also out of scope)
Dear all,
This email contains an important update about UK regulatory affairs.
On 8 May, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a legal challenge
against a new element of the UK Online Safety Act,
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/09/19/wikimedia-foundation-calls-…>which
could have detrimental effects for Wikipedia. We are bringing a legal
challenge because the negative impacts that this law threatens to have on
Wikipedia have not been addressed, despite multiple warnings in
parliamentary debates, media outlets, and an open letter.
The challenge targets the Categorisation Regulations, which are currently
so broadly written that Wikipedia could be classified as a “Category 1”
service. As a Category 1 service, Wikipedia could face the most burdensome
compliance obligations, which were designed to tackle some of the UK’s
riskiest websites. These duties would threaten our mission, for example,
by disempowering users who wish to keep their identity private.
In this blog post
<https://wikimediapolicy.medium.com/0f9153102f29?source=friends_link&sk=7c63…>
you can learn more about our legal challenge, what it means for Wikimedians
around the world, and what might happen next.
Happy to answer any questions,
Ziski
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
UTC Timezone
Heya,
This is just a quick message that the tenth in-person Big Fat Brussels
Meeting will take place on *3 & 4 October *(Friday and Saturday).
We plan to start later on Friday and also make sure that you can
participate on Saturday if you miss Friday.
More information soon, but you may already help us by adding yourself to
the "intending to participante" list at the bottom of the Meta-Wiki event
page. [1]
Cheers,
Dimi
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting_X
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