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From the board
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Letters from the Founder and Board of the Wikimedia Foundation.


 * From the Founder - the latest words from Jimmy Wales, our founder.
 * Note from the Board - a quartely overview of Wikimedia Foundation activity

Quartely reports
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Regular reports on various aspects of the Foundation, written by officers, employees and active members of the Foundation.

From the projects
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This is a free area, with reports by various people on various issues :-) For example, a report on Wikinews, or Wikicommons; a text on a new arbitration committee, a wikijunior publication, a new grassroots initiative to develop a project, etc. Please feel free to add participate and add reports yourself, by following the link above.


 * How to use or reuse our content : All the projects but one are under the GFDL Licence: Wikinews is now under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
 * Projects/Wikinews finally decided of a licensing scheme !

Non-Wikipedia projects have grown more rapidly than Wikipedia over the past semester, with Wikicommons well ahead of all other projects. Here are some of the projects strengths and highlights, as well as our latest statistics.
 * Overview of Wikicommons - april 2005
 * An exciting growth ! - august 2005
 * Wikinews state report sept 2005 - september 2005

Our projects perceived in the outside world...
 * Wikipedia increasingly used as book source - september 2005
 * Information on prizes and awards are collected in our Trophy box.

Opinions and essays
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These articles reflect the opinions of its authors, which may be or not be those of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Still... they are worth it don't you think ? Feel free to use the links above...


 * Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful - Erik Möller - September 2005
 * Right or wrong use of intellectual property - Yann Forget, with the help of Teofilo-Folengo, Emmanuel Legrand, and Nataraja - april 2005

Features
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Meetups A growing number of conferences were attended by Wikimedians this quarter, both as speakers and as booth-tenders. However, the most visible event of the last months was nevertheless the Wikimania conference, the first international Wikimedia conference, held in August 2005. The next Wikimania city has now been chosen and will be ... Boston !
 * Wikimania: 2005 | 2006
 * Community meetups

Big events on the road ahead The whole Wikimedia Foundation and local chapters are now preparing themselves for the participation to the WSIS, which will take care med-november in Tunis.

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Interviews The Quarto caught up with the father of the wiki movement before breakfast on an early Oregon morning, while he was recovering from the recent Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference held in Illinois. In between cans of Moxie, we picked his brain about the evolution of wiki, copyright, and the Wikipedia community. Afterward, he came onto IRC to hang out in #wikipedia for a while, where he was duly lauded. See our interview with Ward Cunningham.

The Quarto also tracked down Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor, founder and chairman of Creative Commons, and free culturesmith, in a lull at the end of a long December day. In a whirlwind session, he talked to us about copyright, copyleft, barriers to free culture, legal pitfalls for Wikipedia, and fighting the good fight. read more.


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Latest news
Read the latest Wikimedia Foundation newsletter:The Wikimedia Quarto, or see current events for more information.


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Corporate details
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The Foundation manages the Budget, which pays primarily for computer equipment and hosting. Other costs include human resources necessary to the running of the Wikimedia projects, though most people are volunteers. This site includes a complete list of notes from Board meetings.

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