Wikimedia Foundation joins Digital Public Goods Alliance
The Digital Public Goods Alliance states that Wikimedia Foundation’s membership will strengthen access to trusted knowledge online.
The Wikimedia Foundation has joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a UN-endorsed multi-stakeholder initiative that promotes open-source software, datasets, AI models, and content as digital public goods.
The foundation, which operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, said the membership reflects its commitment to open knowledge as a public good that remains accessible, rights-based, and governed in the public interest.
Jan Gerlach, Public Policy Director at the Wikimedia Foundation, said: ‘ ‘Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects show how hundreds of thousands of people working together across borders can create and maintain free and open knowledge infrastructure built in the public interest. As the host of these projects, we look forward to sharing our learnings and collaborating more closely with fellow DPGA members who share our vision of an internet that protects and promotes community-led spaces.’
The foundation joins DPGA members, including UNESCO, UNICEF, GitHub, the Inter-American Development Bank, and several governments. As part of its membership, it will report activities linked to digital public goods and the sustainable development goals through the annual State of the DPG Ecosystem Report and the DPGA Roadmap.
Planned activities include strengthening Wikimedia Cloud Services, which supports volunteer-developed tools used across Wikimedia projects. The foundation said around 30% of all edits to Wikimedia projects rely on tools hosted on the service, and that future work will focus on scalability, security, usability, contributor access, and innovation.
The Wikimedia Foundation also plans to continue advocating for open knowledge infrastructure in digital policy, including open-source-first approaches, responsible use of open data for public interest AI, information integrity, and protection of digital public goods.
The move follows the DPGA’s 2025 recognition of Wikipedia and Wikidata as digital public goods. It also builds on the foundation’s 2024 Global Digital Compact advocacy, which called for protecting online public-interest projects and for AI to support people rather than replace them.
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