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Letters from the Founder and Board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Regular reports on various aspects of the Foundation, written by officers, employees and active members of the Foundation.
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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.
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.
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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 !
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.
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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
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation partner to offer Wikipedia in Africa and the Middle East at no extra cost
More than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access can access Wikipedia with no data charges.
Read more (24 Jan 2012)
Statement from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding developments in Washington on SOPA and PIPA
Comments from Sue Gardner in response to developments in Washington this morning.
Read more (20 Jan 2012)
Wikipedia blackout affirms overwhelming support for free and open Internet
Millions “Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge” and act to oppose SOPA/PIPA
Read more (18 Jan 2012)
English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
The Wikipedia community has chosen to protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. Read more (16 Jan 2012)
Wikimedia Foundation Rings In New Year With Record-breaking Fundraiser
This year's annual campaign raised a record-breaking USD 20 million from more than one million donors in nearly every country in the world. Read more (2 Jan 2012)
Read the latest Wikimedia Foundation newsletter:The Wikimedia Quarto, or see current events for more information.
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