{"id":59,"date":"2025-05-23T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:45:00","slug":"editorial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/en\/editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='outer-container'><div class='default'><div class=\"bb-spacer-block h-5 lg:h-10 \">\n\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class='outer-container'><div class='default'><div class=\"bb-paragraph-block font-inherit  text-xl\">\n    <p><strong>Dear friends of Wikimedia Deutschland!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We humans have always sought knowledge. Our drive to understand the world unites us. And now, a quarter of a century after its launch, Wikipedia continues to be the place to go on the internet where we can find answers to nearly all our questions.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is so much more than an online encyclopedia. It is the result of our collective curiosity and with over 65 million articles the largest knowledge repository of humankind. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers worldwide create and review content, making knowledge accessible to all of us \u2013 free of charge, anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The principle that \u201cknowledge is human\u201d takes on a special significance, particularly in the age of artificial intelligence. With the emergence of generative AI systems, the way we access and share knowledge has changed radically. Considering this fundamental shift, it is all the more important to protect the precious good that is human-generated knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, we championed Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in many areas, with a particular emphasis on supporting volunteer communities in Germany, expanding and maintaining the technical infrastructure of Wiki projects, and advocating for better conditions at the digital and educational policy levels.<\/p>\n<p>This annual report summarizes our most important developments and achievements and highlights what we were able to accomplish in 2025 together with our volunteers, our numerous partners, and thanks to the growing support of our members and donors.<\/p>\n<p>We are glad you are a part of this!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class='outer-container'><div class='default'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><div class=\"bb-paragraph-block font-inherit  text-xl\">\n    <p>Yours,<br \/>\n<strong>Alice Wiegand<\/strong><br \/>\nChair of the Supervisory Board<\/p>\n<p><strong>Franziska Heine<\/strong><br \/>\nExecutive Director<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 has shown more clearly than ever before how important free access to reliable and verified knowledge is. People around the world are increasingly being manipulated by targeted disinformation on the internet \u2013 whether in the run-up to elections or in connection with current crises and wars. At the same time, large social media platforms are abandoning their responsibility for reliable content. This creates a dangerous vacuum where misinformation can spread unhindered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6326,"featured_media":35,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":59,"de":9},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}