What's WIPO, and why should Wikipedia care about joining it?
“World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and related issues.”
3rd paragraph in the article:
“WIPO’s work, which shapes international laws and policies that affect the sharing of free knowledge, impacts Wikipedia’s ability to provide hundreds of millions of people with information in their own languages. The Wikimedia Foundation’s absence from these meetings further separates those people from global events that shape their access to knowledge.”
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=WIPOAlso, I must admit to not having clicked the link first, as I usually go to the comments to get an idea of if it's worthwhile before going through. However, I should have gone to the link and then come back and commented.