This workshop explores how the Wikimedia ecosystem defends neutrality and trust at a moment when political actors increasingly attempt to influence, weaponise, or strategically “copy-paste” narratives into one of the world’s most widely used information sources. 

Participants will learn how Wikimedia’s volunteer-driven governance model responds to organised editing campaigns, coordinated disinformation efforts, and attempts to bend policy pages or biographies for political gain—especially during polarized election cycles. The session will unpack the platform’s content moderation rules, transparency practices, and dispute-resolution mechanisms, as well as the role of bots, machine learning, and community oversight in safeguarding information integrity at scale. 

Through real case studies, attendees will see how neutrality is defended in practice, what new threats are emerging (from AI-generated text to state-backed editing operations), and how political actors, journalists, and civil society can collaborate with the Wikimedia community to keep knowledge reliable and resilient.