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Skip to content Wikimedia Foundation Toggle menu Wikimedia Foundation Donate now Our Work Support Wikipedia Research Advocacy Technology News Participate About Toggle search Search About Transparency report Imagine a world in which every single human being can free ly share in the sum of all knowledge. Toggle Menu Transparency report July to December 2020 Requests for user information Requests for content alteration and takedown DMCA takedown notices Stories Our perspectives on policy Frequently asked questions Previous transparency reports Twice a year, the Wikimedia Foundation reports on requests we receive to alter or remove content from the projects, and to provide nonpublic information about users. This Transparency Report includes charts and graphs that give details such as the origin of the requests and the projects targeted. We also tell stories of interesting or notable requests, and provide an FAQ with useful background information. The Wikimedia Foundation envisions a world in which every person can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Our mission is to empower the global communities of Wikimedia readers and contributors as they strive to achieve this goal. We believe that defending against censorship and protecting user privacy are essential to this effort. When accurate facts are obscured or deleted, or people are afraid to share information due to surveillance, free knowledge and our work to make it globally available are threatened. When the Foundation does receive a request, we thoroughly evaluate it, and we push back against those requests that could harm users’ rights or affect their ability to determine what content should appear on the projects. And when we must respond to the small number of valid takedown notices we receive, we tell you. Transparency is a cornerstone of the Wikimedia movement, and our biannual Transparency Report is central to the Foundation’s efforts to shed light on the requests we receive and how we respond to them. In this report, we provide an overview of the requests we receive to alter or remove content from the Wikimedia projects, and to provide nonpublic information about our users. You can learn what sorts of requests we receive, where they are from, and which projects were targeted. We hope that this report provides a greater understanding of threats to free knowledge and our work to defend it. Continue reading → Help us unlock the world’s knowledge. As a nonprofit, Wikipedia and our related free knowledge projects are powered primarily through donations. Donate now Photo credits Neutral density filter demonstration Robert Emperley CC BY-SA 2.0 Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon Jens Mohr CC BY-SA 3.0 Careers Contact Press The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. Careers Contact Press Twitter Facebook Instagram -- Wikimedia projects Wikipedia Wikibooks Wikiversity Wikinews Wiktionary Wikisource Wikiquote Wikivoyage Wikimedia Commons Wikidata Wikispecies MediaWiki Movement affiliates Wikimedia Chapters Wikimedia Thematic Organizations Wikimedia User Groups Other Terms of use Privacy policy Disclaimers Accessibility statement Cookie statement Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license . Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Automattic Privacy Notice . Search esc...