Free Knowledge Ecosystem

Originals by Ward Cunningham

Does a free knowledge system imply Free Knowledge Flows? Not necessarilty it seems. A knowledge system requires: effort, design, maintenance, will and motivation to produce, share, and renew content.

The Key Question: what motivates sufficient numbers of people to provide sufficient knowledge to be of use for communities? There has to be a Viable Community Ecosystem Model to make it work.

By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us. wikipedia

We, the Wikimedia contributors, communities and organizations, will advance our world by collecting knowledge that fully represents human diversity, and by building the services and structures that enable others to do the same.

We will carry on our mission of developing content as we have done in the past, and we will go further.

Knowledge as a service: To serve our users, we will become a platform that serves open knowledge to the world across interfaces and communities. We will build tools for allies and partners to organize and exchange free knowledge beyond Wikimedia. Our infrastructure will enable us and others to collect and use different forms of free, trusted knowledge.

Knowledge equity: As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege. We will welcome people from every background to build strong and diverse communities. We will break down the social, political, and technical barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge.

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It is daring for a community to reaffirm their expectation of good faith in others while they continually fend off abuse.