Jan-David Franke
As Policy Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland, Jan-David Franke has been advocating for the release of public broadcasting content under a free Creative Commons license since 2022 and has been overseeing key collaborations between Wikimedia Deutschland, Wiki Loves Broadcast and public service broadcasters in Germany and beyond. In that role, he has also been the chief liaison with the community project “Wiki Loves Broadcast” as well as Wikimedia Europe and the Wikimedia Foundation on the subject.
He is also Wikimedia Deutschland's representative in the "Bündnis F5" (a digital civil society alliance with Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, AlgorithmWatch, Reporters without Borders and Open Knowledge Foundation), "Bits & Bäume" (a movement at the intersection of the digital and sustainability), and the "Bündnis Transparenzgesetz" (a joint civil society effort to bring about a modern transparency law in Germany).
Session
More and more educational clips from German public service broadcasters are making their way into Wikipedia, improving hundreds of articles and raking in tens of millions of views. This success story would not have been possible without the work of community project “Wiki Loves Broadcast” which helps the broadcasters to identify suitable content for Creative Commons licensing and is responsible for integrating relevant videos into Wikipedia articles. In this session, Wiki Loves Broadcast and Wikimedia Deutschland showcase their work and invite the international Wikipedia community to join a growing effort to bring publicly funded audiovisual content into Wikipedia.