# Organization: Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

**Type:** Nonprofit / chapter organization
**Founded:** 2004
**Base:** Berlin, Germany
**URL:** https://www.wikimedia.de

**Mission:** Free knowledge for all people — support Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and the broader free knowledge ecosystem.

**Problems Addressed:**
- **Primary:** PR-00007 (Knowledge Isolation) — Wikipedia is the largest experiment in democratized knowledge production in history. Wikimedia's infrastructure is the counter-model to proprietary knowledge gatekeeping.
- **Secondary:** PR-00005 (Epistemic Power Concentration) — open, editable, source-cited knowledge as alternative to algorithm-curated truth regimes.

**Key Projects:**
- **Wikipedia** — free encyclopedia, collaboratively written, 6.7M+ articles in English alone
- **Wikidata** — free, linked open knowledge base — machine-readable, structured data for the web
- **Wikimedia Commons** — free media repository (images, video, audio)
- **WMDE Tech** — develops tools for the Wikimedia ecosystem, including Wikibase (open-source knowledge graph)

**Why it matters structurally:**
Wikipedia is one of the few remaining large-scale online spaces not optimized for engagement or revenue. It operates on a model of citation, verifiability, and neutral point of view — structurally different from platform epistemics. Its continued existence and independence is a democratic resource.

**German-specific relevance:**
Wikimedia Deutschland actively works on digital rights, open data policy, and free knowledge advocacy in the German legislative context. Interfaces directly with EU digital policy.

**Connection to Values:** VA-00001 (Epistemic Sovereignty), VA-00006 (Deep Reflection As Practice)
**Connection to Plans:** de-plan1-sven.md — STRATEGY 2 (epistemic competence), STRATEGY 5 (knowledge infrastructure)