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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 50 most visited websites in the world.

The Foundation mostly relies on support from individuals. Please consider making a donation today, be it time, money or hardware. Benefactors's page is dedicated to some of the larger donations made by companies and individuals which are helping to sustain the projects of Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors.

The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax deductible. See deductibility of donations for details. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact the Wikimedia Board at board at wikimedia.org.

From the board

Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation. On this site, you will find articles about the latest Wikimedia initiatives, the thoughts and activities of our Board of Trustees, and words from our founder, Jimmy Wales. You will find current reports from our committees and chapters, notes from the community, and commentary from major figuures in open content, copyright, and distributed research.

• Founder letter - the latest words from Jimbo Wales, our founder.
• Board letter - Find out a quartely overview of Wikimedia Foundation activity

Quartely reports

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Reports attempt to summarize Wikimedia Foundation activity. Here you will find reports from the various departements of the Foundation : Finance, Grants, Technical, Legal, etc. Most of the editors of this section are either board members, Wikimedians active in the subject area, officers, or other authors asked to report on a specific topic.

• Finance report - update summer 2005
• Grant report - update spring 2005
• Legal report - update spring 2005
• Software report - update spring 2005
• Hardware and hosting report - update september 2005
• Local chapter report - update september 2005
• Press report - update spring 2005
• Research report - update september 2005

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 publishing, a new grassroot initiative to develop a project, etc... Please feel free to add participate and add reports yourself.

• How to use or reuse our content : All the projects but one are under the GFDL Licence: Wikinews is under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

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

• Wikipedia increasingly used as book source - september 2005
• Wikinews state report sept 2005 - september 2005

More information on prize and awards are at m: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 ?

• 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

Specials

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• m:Wikimania 2006
• Community meetup

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

Latest news

Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a grant from the U.S.-based Stanton Foundation to make Wikipedia's writing and editing interface easier to use for first-time authors. Read more (3 December 2008)

Wikimedia Foundation Launches 2008 Annual Campaign to Support Wikipedia
The campaign runs until Jan. 15, 2009 (Wikipedia's eight-year anniversary). In addition to raising funds for the organization, the campaign is also engaging users by asking how Wikipedia has made their lives easier. Read more (5 November 2008)

SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools
SOS Children UK, in coordination with the Wikimedia Foundation, has released a complete 2008/9 revision of the Wikipedia Selection for Schools, which is perhaps the most successful "checked content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. Read more (22 October 2008)

Wikimedia Foundation Announces New Appointments to Board of Trustees
Earlier today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice-Chair, Jan-Bart De Vreede announced important changes to the Board, including the selection of a new Chair, and appointment of the newest community-elected member. Read more (17 July 2008)

Wikimedians Around the World Prepare for Wikimania 2008
Next week hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers and enthusiasts will converge at the historic center of global knowledge and wisdom, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, for the fourth annual Wikimania conference. Read more (9 July 2008)

Board of Trustees announces Board Restructure details
Jan Bart de Vreede, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, today announced the details of the Board's restructuring. The restructure will add new chapter-selected seats and more clearly defines the terms and details of other seats. Read more (26 April 2008)

Board of Trustees announces appointment of new Board Treasurer
The Board of Trustees has appointed Stuart West as the new board treasurer. West brings new financial experience and skill to the Board of Trustees. Read more (22 April 2008)

Wikimedia is hiring!
Three new fundraising and development job opportunities have been posted. The closing date is May 15. Read more (20 April 2008)

Nicholas Hilliard, subject of the 10 millionth article

Wikipedia Hits Milestone of Ten Million Articles Across 250 Languages
The Hungarian biography of a 16th century painter has been declared the ten millionth article. Read more (28 March 2008)

Wikimedia Foundation Receives $500K Donation
The Wikimedia Foundation announces an unrestricted donation of $500K from philanthropists Vinod and Neeru Khosla. Read more (27 March 2008)

Sloan Foundation awards $3 million USD to support Wikipedia's quality and growth initiatives
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced it is awarding $3 million of support to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which operates the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Read more (25 March 2008)

Library of Alexandria

Wikimania 2008 calls for participation
The Wikimania 2008 Organizing Committee is accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open spaces, and artistic artifacts until March 16, 2008. The conference will be held this summer at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. The submission guidelines are available online. Visit the official site for further information. (12 February 2008)

Wikimedia Foundation releases latest financial statements
Although a bit later than we would have originally liked, I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has approved the Foundation's 2006/2007 financial statements. The financial statements are now posted on the Wikimedia Foundation wiki at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_2007_fs.pdf Read more (Florence Devouard, 8 February 2008)

Read the latest release of the Wikimedia Foundation's newsletter:The Wikimedia Quarto

See current events for more information.