Visual collage depicting milestones in the Wikimedia Foundation’s engagement with the United Nations system. Image by Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. December 2025 marked a landmark moment for the Wikimedia Foundation: After years of engagement within the United Nations (UN) system, the Foundation delivered remarks at the UN General Assembly Hall about the future of the internet. As the most important organization in the world for proposing, discussing, and setting global policy, the UN is a critical space to display the community-led and governed Wikimedia model. There we can demonstrate why the model is an effective online approach to promote and protect an open, reliable, and inclusive internet—and how it delivers the promise of a positive vision of global internet governance. We want the internet to remain global, free, and open so that the Wikimedia projects can continue serving billions in their public interest mission.…