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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.

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

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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

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

Meetups

• 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 w:en:WSIS, which will take care med-november in Tunis.

Interviews

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.

Latest news

Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Craig Newmark to its Advisory Board
Craigslist.org founder to share customer service and public service experience in support of Wikipedia. Read more (13 November 2009)

Sixth Annual Campaign to Protect Wikipedia Kicks Off
Wikimedia Foundation invites readers, editors and contributors to show support and help raise over $7.5 million Read more (10 November 2009)

Wikimedia and comScore partner to improve understanding of the reach and impact of free knowledge on the Web
Wikimedia Foundation today announced an on-going partnership with comScore that will help expand the Foundation’s awareness of global Web audience trends and demographics, particularly for top ten projects like Wikipedia. Read more (3 November 2009)

Wikimedia Foundation receives $500,000 in operational support from Hewlett Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a $500,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its work bringing free educational content to everyone on the planet. Read more (20 August 2009)

¡Viva Wikimanía! ¡Buenos Aires los espera! / Buenos Aires awaits you!
Media registration is now open for Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires. Read more (20 July 2009)

NIH and Wikimedia Foundation Collaborate to Improve Online Health Information
Organizations are joining forces to make health and science information more accessible and reliable. Read more (14 July 2009)

Ford Foundation Grant to support Wikimedia Commons
$300,000 will empower individuals around the world to share educational photos, illustrations, videos, and sound. Read more (1 July 2009)

Wikimedia Selects Green Data Center EvoSwitch as Internet HUB for Europe
Evoswitch generously supports reach and access to the Wikimedia projects by providing data center space. Read more (22 June 2009)

Wikimedia Foundation announces important licensing change for Wikipedia and its sister projects
Adoption of Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License will support greater interoperability and re-usability of Wikimedia content. The current GNU Free Documentation License will continue to be supported. Read more (21 May 2009)

Orange forms world’s first mobile and internet partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership designed to mutually benefit each organization’s users by extending the way people can access free knowledge. Read more (22 April 2009)

Roger McNamee to Become Wikimedia Advisor
Media and entertainment investment pioneer joins non-profit's Advisory Board. Read more (13 January 2009)

Wikipedia fundraising campaign surpasses $6 million USD goal
Over 125,000 donors worldwide show their support for the non-profit encyclopedia. Read more (2 January 2009)

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