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Wikimania Day Zero Advocacy Workshop

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Workshop slide deck

Presentation slides updated with notes from the event.

Wikimania Advocacy Workshop Slides 2024

Pre-read material

• Wikimedia Foundation Child Rights Impact Assessment report, which highlights the risks that young people face across Wikimedia projects as well as recommendations for how these risks might be addressed.

  

  ArticleOne - WMF Child Rights Impact Assessment Report 2023

• UK Online Safety Act: Open letter campaign & blog covering how this law harms Wikipedia.
• Findings from the Santiago advocacy conference, which highlight next steps that the advocacy network could take as well as capacity-building desires.

  

  WikiAdvocacy MeetUp 2024 - Summary doc

Further reading material

UK Online Safety Act

Initial monitoring and analysis

• 2022 WMF blog outlining how harmful the proposed bill could be for Wikimedia
• 2022 WMF blog covering early impressions of initial text analysis

Campaign work to influence debates about the bill

• June 2023 WMUK + WMF open letter campaign
• September 2023 WMF last public call to Parliament
• Independent media coverage: The Independent
• Independent media coverage: BBC
• Independent media coverage: The Guardian

Once the bill became a law

• September 2023 WMF comments on final decisions to make the bill a LAW