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Problems (7): PR-00001–PR-00007 — Meaning Crisis, Illegitimate Domination, Performance Society Exhaustion, Fascization, Epistemic Power Concentration, Platform Feudalism, Knowledge Isolation Models (5): Han, Fisher, Foucault, Vervaeke, Graeber/Anarchism Values (6): Epistemic Sovereignty, Authority Requires Justification, Exhaustion Is Structural, Mutual Aid Over Market, Digital Autonomy Is Political, Deep Reflection As Practice Arguments (3): Platform Feudalism → Democracy, PKM as Epistemic Strategy, Algorithmic Rationality Erodes Autonomy Organizations (5): IndieWeb, Wikimedia Deutschland, Reporter ohne Grenzen, Mehr Demokratie e.V., netzpolitik.org Plans (1): de-plan1-sven.md — Germany plan with 6 challenges, 5 strategies Data (1): DE-Democracy-Metrics — V-Dem, RSF, EIU, ARD-DeutschlandTREND, Bundeswahlleiter, More in Common Cross-linking: KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH.md + entities.json index Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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)