Royal Society: Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia
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Basingstoke Science Cafe subscribers are invited to enjoy this in-person and livestream science talk from the Royal Society in London.
Meet world-leading researchers from universities and science institutions across the UK at the Royal Society’s public events of cutting-edge science. Today's lecture is "Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia".
This livestream event is free to join and requires prior registration with the Royal Society at the web address below.
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11/celebrating-25-years-of-wikipedia/
SUMMARY
Wikipedia turns 25 in 2026. To mark the milestone, Professor Dame Wendy Hall FRS, Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton, and Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, bring together leaders from technology, policy, research, media and the open knowledge community to ask what comes next for the open web.
Co-hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, the Web Science Institute and the Royal Society, the event explores how AI is changing the way knowledge is created, accessed and reused, how we protect the digital commons, and what responsible reuse should mean for industry, policymakers and the institutions that look after shared knowledge. The programme includes a keynote, panel discussions and a closing conversation between Dame Wendy Hall and Jimmy Wales.
### Attending this event
- This event is free to attend, but prebooking tickets on Eventbrite is required
- Registration will open on the day at 12.30pm for a 1pm start
- This event will also be livestreamed on the Royal Society YouTube channel
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