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Most of my time is spent on [[m:Main Page|Meta]] and a few of the other Wikimedia projects. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent, freenode [[m:IRC/Group_Contacts|IRC Group Contact for Wikimedia]], and help develop and run various IRC bots as a member of the Countervandalism Network ([[m:CVN|CVN]]) staff.<br />
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In the past, I've been a [[wmf:Job_openings/Fundraiser_Production_Coordinator|Production Coordinator]] while working on the [[m:fundraising 2011|2011 Fundraiser]], and also worked in the [[RFP/Help_Desk_-_Tier_1|Office IT]] department for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. <br />
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Official acts by me in the line of my work were done from my office account, [[User:Azariv|User:Azariv-WMF]].<br />
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* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]<br />
* IRC: AlexZ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
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Most of my time is spent on [[m:Main Page|Meta]] and a few of the other Wikimedia projects. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent, freenode [[m:IRC/Group_Contacts|IRC Group Contact for Wikimedia]], and help develop and run various IRC bots as a member of the Countervandalism Network ([[m:CVN|CVN]]) staff.<br />
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In the past, I've been a [[wmf:Job_openings/Fundraiser_Production_Coordinator|Production Coordinator]] while working on the [[m:fundraising 2011|2011 Fundraiser]], and also worked in the [[RFP/Help_Desk_-_Tier_1|Office IT]] department for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. <br />
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Official acts by me in the line of my work were done from my office account, [[User:Azariv|User:Azariv-WMF]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]<br />
* IRC: AlexZ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
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===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
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__NOEDITSECTION__</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Stu&diff=122360User:Stu2018-10-31T05:21:55Z<p>Az1568: Update outdated info per TheSandDoctor</p>
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<div>Stu West formerly served as a [[Board of Trustees|Trustee]], Board Treasurer, and Chair of the [[Audit Committee]] for the Wikimedia Foundation. Read more on his [[w:User:Stu|English Wikipedia userpage]].</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policy_talk:Privacy_policy&diff=236427Policy talk:Privacy policy2018-06-04T08:30:37Z<p>Az1568: Reverted changes by 2.247.251.137 (talk) to last version by Defender</p>
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== Allow people contributing pictures to conceal camera make and model for privacy reasons ==<br />
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When I uploaded some photos taken using my smartphone I didn’t realise that the wikiMedia website would display all the EXIF metadata from the camera. Please can you add a privacy feature to the user account to hide camera make and model information for my contributions [[User:Adrian816|Adrian816]] ([[User talk:Adrian816|talk]]) 14:23, 27 February 2018 (UTC)<br />
:I think that's a technical question about removal of the EXIF metadata from your existing uploads, and about removing EXIF during your future uploads. Perhaps ask [[:Commons:Village pump]]?<!-- ([[:c:Commons_talk:Exif#Privacy|related discussion]], [[:c:Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2005/06#EXIF|related discussion 2]], [[:c:Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2016/06#Is_there_a_tool_for_making_edits_to_EXIF_data_available_on_Commons?|Is there a tool for making edits to EXIF data available on Commons?]])--> --[[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] 22:30, 27 February 2018 (UTC)<br />
::If your photo is displayed somewhere and you download it from there, the downloaded file has no EXIF metadata. The problem though is that without the metadata, there is no evidence that you're the photographer. [[User:Guido den Broeder|Guido den Broeder]] ([[User talk:Guido den Broeder|talk]]) 23:47, 1 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::: But metadata may be edited by a some easy ways, and this is not a evidence in the general case. --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] ([[User talk:Kaganer|talk]]) 14:49, 10 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
::::In my POV show the metadata of a file in Commons improves the transparency and openness of the project. But many persons as Adrian can't be aware of this. We can suggest a legend or banner in the Upload Form to prevent the people to be uninformed of this technical characteristic. [[User:ProtoplasmaKid|ProtoplasmaKid (WM-MX)]] ([[User talk:ProtoplasmaKid|talk]]) 20:17, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::::ProtoplasmaKid, Good idea. [[User:Rutheni|Rutheni]] ([[User talk:Rutheni|talk]]) 10:15, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Push for EU standards ==<br />
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There seems to be a wide push for USA companies to apply the standards of the GDPR worldwide, for all users: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-facebook-ceo-privacy-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-ceo-stops-short-of-extending-european-privacy-globally-idUKKCN1HA2MN<br />
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The implications of [[:en:GDPR|GDPR]] may be unclear for our free software, but it would still be helpful if Wikimedia Foundation were ready to answer similar questions. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 06:06, 4 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
: Strongly agree. Unjustified expansion of application [https://www.google.ru/search?q=data+protection+and+street+photography&gws_rd=ssl GDPR is a very dangerous and toxic initiative] for free knowledge world (and primarily for Wikimedia Commons). It is very important that the [[Legal|WMF Legal Team]] investigate this topic and publish a special appeal and lead a public campaign against this expansion. {{Ping|EHershenov (WMF)|TSebro_(WMF)}} what your opinion about this issue? Maybe someone is already working on learning this?--[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] ([[User talk:Kaganer|talk]]) 15:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
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::GDPR is particularly dangerous for machine learning and data analytics but we needed to pay this price some time.[[User:Erkinalp9035|Erkin Alp Güney]] ([[User talk:Erkinalp9035|talk]]) 07:30, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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::Hi {{u|Kaganer}}. Since privacy is one of the key values of the Wikimedia movement and the Wikimedia Foundation, the Foundation legal team works hard to monitor related developments all around the world, not just in law, but also in users' expectations and understanding of what constitutes good privacy practices. Privacy is much-discussed these days for a variety of reasons, and we are using this current global conversation as impetus to strengthen our own practices. That's why we reexamined our Privacy Policy and decided to improve it with some minor changes, and why we want to hear from users about what they'd like to see as our privacy practices continue to evolve. We will continue to support and protect the projects and the movement, including user privacy, and we welcome everyone’s feedback on how we can best achieve this. [[User:TSebro (WMF)|TSebro (WMF)]] ([[User talk:TSebro (WMF)|talk]]) 21:40, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::: {{Re|TSebro (WMF)}} Dear Tony! Are you sure that your speech is exactly the answer to the questions asked above? Is it possible for us to see your replicas in a less "abstract" form? So that we do not have the impression that these are the robot's answers? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] ([[User talk:Kaganer|talk]]) 23:07, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Reporting privacy violation - IP to real person mapping ==<br />
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Where can one report mappings, true or not, that have been made on Wikimedia sites from an IP address to a living person? [[Special:Contributions/85.179.161.128|85.179.161.128]] 09:19, 18 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:On the English Wikipedia, please contact [[:en:Wikipedia:Oversight|oversight]]. On other sites, contact their local oversight process. For meta, and other sites without an oversight process, contact a [[Steward]]. [[User:TheDragonFire|TheDragonFire]] ([[User talk:TheDragonFire|talk]]) 11:33, 18 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::Meta have their own oversighters. [[Meta:OS]] &mdash;&nbsp;regards, [[User:-revi|<span style="color:green;font-family:Courier new, serif;font-variant:small-caps">Revi</span>]] 09:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Diff quality ==<br />
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The [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=18063543&oldid=17995859&rcid=11900547 quite unreadable diff] doesn't help the conversation. I recommend that you revert it and apply things like translation unit changes and uppercase changes in separate diffs. Also, some translation units don't follow best practices for translatability. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 17:28, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Is there a reason a link to the diff wasn't included in the blog post? Or some kind of summary of the changes? I read a few references to "minor edits" without a description of what was actually changing. I eventually found <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Privacy_policy&diff=18063543&oldid=17995859> myself, and I agree with Nemo that this diff is not enjoyable to read, even for long-time editors. It's not immediately clear which paragraphs were removed, which were added, which were reformatted, and why. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 23:40, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:: I tried to do my own quick diff, but it's still nasty. Attempt 1: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Sandbox&diff=18069162&oldid=18069161>. Attempt 2: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Sandbox&diff=18069182&oldid=18069171>. Woof. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 02:05, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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* Agreed, it's pretty disappointing that there's no plain English summary of the changes that I can see, let alone no easy-to-access full diff. Come on WMF; y'all can do better than this. — [[:en:User:OwenBlacker|OwenBlacker]] ([[:en:User talk:OwenBlacker|Talk]]) 06:00, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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* I subscribe to everything said above. I was wondering the same. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 09:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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* I too came here looking for the actual changes being made. I saw the banner announcement, read the blogpost, read the message on the mailing list... but other than saying that there are some minor changes, nowhere does it actually tell you what these changes actually are. If they're that minor it should be easy to identify them. Since the timing is specifically the same as GDPR, and yet the comments here on this talkpage indicate that these changes do not actually address GDPR issues, is this just a conspicuous coincidence? [[User:Wittylama|Wittylama]] ([[User talk:Wittylama|talk]]) 12:41, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:*+1 - Just had the privacy banner appear hence the lateness - Like everyone above I too came here to see what had actually changed ..... I didn't really expect diffs .... just a "this has been added" and "this has been removed" ..... Without sounding disrespectful I'm not going to spend all my life reading [[Privacy policy]] (FWIW I don't read any of that on other sites either), I guess I just liked to have known what those minor changes were –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 01:21, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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As the person who did most of this wikification, I guess I’m the best person to answer this. The answer is, unfortunately, not terribly satisfying: a combination of limitations on the way the content was built up and updated and constraints on version control between different formats as the text wandered through various processes meant that we ended up having to choose between getting the content up in a timely manner or getting the diff viewability and translation markup perfect. The team estimated that the latter would be a considerable additional time investment and we chose the former in this instance and, well, here we are. <br />
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So, the bad news is that we don’t really have any feasible way to go back and re-do all the changes in a more diff-able manner, because the changes don’t exist, even on our end, in that format. The good news is that my team has been working with Legal this week this week on better way to address the version control issue going forward. [[User:Kbrown (WMF)|Kbrown (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Kbrown (WMF)|talk]]) 13:53, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:{{re|Kbrown (WMF)}} a mark-up page with <strike>striken</strike> and <ins>inserted</ins> text seems like it would be the simplest option for something like this, agree with everyone on this page that trying to determine what was changed is even challenging for us seasoned editors. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 01:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::Kbrown, nobody has asked that you rewrite history. Just read your own diff, separate it in different parts, revert your edit and apply all the different edits separately. You can save the wikitext on local files and test how the diff looks like on a sandbox, don't worry. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 06:31, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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{{ping|Nemo_bis|MZMcBride|OwenBlacker|Waldir|Wittylama|Davey2010|Xaosflux}} I created a hopefully more easily-readable diff over at [[Privacy policy/2018 update]]. Hopefully that's more useful. :) I should probably also note that I made this myself and it's not totally impossible I missed some stuff where the changes involved section moves (which are more difficult to display in a format like this). [[User:JSutherland (WMF)|Joe Sutherland (Wikimedia Foundation)]] ([[User talk:JSutherland (WMF)|talk]]) 21:52, 29 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
: {{ping|JSutherland (WMF)}} Thank you; good work! — [[:en:User:OwenBlacker|OwenBlacker]] ([[:en:User talk:OwenBlacker|Talk]]) 22:23, 29 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Thanks so much JS :), –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 22:40, 30 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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=== What are the changes??? ===<br />
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Even after spending 1/2 hr chasing down links, I have no friggin' idea what the changes are. Whatever you are doing is not, and I repeat not, transparent. [[User:G41rn8|G41rn8]] ([[User talk:G41rn8|talk]]) 02:29, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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: Hi [[User:G41rn8|G41rn8]]. Yes, a few of us have been wondering the same in the [[#Diff quality]] section of this talk page. It's confusing why it's so difficult to discern what changed. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 01:41, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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::I strongly agree, [[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]]! --[[User:G41rn8|G41rn8]] ([[User talk:G41rn8|talk]]) 02:29, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Do we know what the changes are yet? [[User:Jason Quinn|Jason Quinn]] ([[User talk:Jason Quinn|talk]]) 14:57, 27 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
: {{ping|Jason Quinn}} I had a go at creating a more easily-readable diff at [[Privacy policy/2018 update]]. Perhaps that's useful. [[User:JSutherland (WMF)|Joe Sutherland (Wikimedia Foundation)]] ([[User talk:JSutherland (WMF)|talk]]) 21:48, 29 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Anonymization ==<br />
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It's troubling that the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Privacy_policy%2FFAQ&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=18063549&oldid=16949953 updated FAQ section] and the link on "Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing" make specific reference to a guideline specific to the English Wikipedia. What does "for further reference" entail? --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 17:32, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Hi, could you clarify where you’re seeing that problematic link to enwp’s Courtesy vanishing policy? I can’t find it in the FAQ, but wherever it is, I think we can replace a link to enwp vanishing policy with the [[Courtesy vanishing|Meta version]] of the page I posted yesterday, so if I can get a pointer I think I can fix this. [[User:Kbrown (WMF)|Kbrown (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Kbrown (WMF)|talk]]) 13:54, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::Sure. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Privacy_policy&type=revision&diff=18072004&oldid=18068839 Here you go]. Hope this helps. All links to the English Wikipedia anywhere must be removed and the text rephrased so that it's actually valid for all users. Thanks, [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 06:35, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Consent and other changes ==<br />
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I'm glad that the new text [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=18063543&oldid=17995859&rcid=11900547 removed] the sentence «you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, processing, disclosure, and other uses of your information in the U.S.», which was quite user-hostile because users don't quite consent to anything. Saying «We will access, use, preserve, and/or disclose» is definitely more honest than «We may access, preserve, or disclose»; same for all the other removed "may" and removed «Information available through public logs will not include personal information about you».<br />
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The sentence «Depending on your jurisdiction, you also may have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority competent for your country or region» is also a welcome admission. The WMF often sounded tone-deaf on this matter in the past. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 17:56, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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==Confidential data==<br />
I see that a sentence was removed: «If you choose to provide your email address, we will keep it confidential, except as provided in this Policy». Other sections kept similar sentences, for instance «We keep IP addresses confidential» and «We keep information obtained by these technologies confidential», in addition to «In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of the Foundation changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), we will continue to keep your personal information confidential».<br />
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What does this mean? Does it mean that other parts of the policy can allow such data to be shared even without saying it explicitly? --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 17:56, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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*It looks to me like the biggest change is to how email addreses will be handled. The changes around it imply that the foundation will now use email addresses to solicit funds. Also, WMF will possibly share email addresses with other entities that further its "charitable mission." Why was the language that protected email addresses removed? It looks a little like a sleight of hand maneuver to allow the giving of information (not "sell") to other organizations that may have donated or contributed to WMF "charitable mission" with no definition of what the mission is or who may use the information to further it. {{Unsigned|2600:8800:1300:16E:F15F:D980:8971:23A0}}<br />
*:Really? I've read the changes in the exact opposite way, making the policy more permissive about emails (though arguably nothing extraordinary)=: see [[#Confidential data]]. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 20:43, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
*::I think you two have the same point. --[[User:Gnom|Gnom]] ([[User talk:Gnom|talk]]) <small>[[Environmental impact|Let's make Wikipedia green!]]</small> 04:46, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
*Hi {{u|Nemo_bis}}. We are not changing our email handling practices. We just removed this sentence for the sake of clarity and readability. As the policy provides elsewhere, we are committed to keeping Personal Information, including email addresses, confidential as described in the policy. When you use the "Email this user" feature, your email address may become visible, as disclosed in the interface. [[User:TSebro (WMF)|TSebro (WMF)]] ([[User talk:TSebro (WMF)|talk]]) 21:45, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
*:If you think that sentence was redundant, why did you keep it in two other paragraphs? I know how [[Special:EmailUser]] works, but your sentence here may be misunderstood: MediaWiki never makes the email address visible. The users' email clients do. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 06:43, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
*:[[User:TSebro (WMF)|TSebro (WMF)]], I wasn't specific enough. In the section regarding emails/data, a new phrase appears. It is "charitable mission." It appears in different ways {{tq|We and our service providers use your information for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our charitable mission, including:}} is one such instance. This appears to broaden how WMF may use information. It isn't just relocation, it's a new phrase with "charitable mission" (or in another place {{tq| in all instances, in keeping with our legitimate charitable purpose of pursuing our mission}}. This seems like an expansion of how the data will be used and who may use it. If it's not, why the new phrasing? [[Special:Contributions/2600:8800:1300:16E:44A8:FE7:35B4:CB3D|2600:8800:1300:16E:44A8:FE7:35B4:CB3D]] 09:28, 27 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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==Hidden text==<br />
Why move the paragraph about "Your username will be publicly visible" in the collapsed box? This also breaks the translation unit and forces new translation for all languages. Please just revert (the text is identical).<br />
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The paragraphs on "Publicly Visible Information" were hidden too. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 17:56, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:Hi {{u|Nemo_bis}}. Our goal in moving some text to collapsed boxes was to make the policy more readable overall. This makes it easier for people to read the main points of the privacy policy, while giving them the opportunity to expand out particular sections if they wish to read further details. We welcome community perspectives on how we can best present this information. If others have opinions about the collapsible box, please let us know. [[User:TSebro (WMF)|TSebro (WMF)]] ([[User talk:TSebro (WMF)|talk]]) 21:48, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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::I welcome any effort to improve readability. Hiding the dust under the rug is no cleanup though. If you're serious about this, I suggest that you set yourself a goal of reducing the privacy policy to half of its current size (let's say 20k characters less), to bring it closer to what it used to be.<br />
::Unnecessary fluff can be removed, then you won't have a need of collapsed text. Of course the information about IP addresses being made public is not among the information which would be removed. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 06:39, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== GDPR ==<br />
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I am curious about whether the current policy is compliant with GDPR when it comes to Europeans people in its databases. For example, has every donator currently receiving sollicitations (by email) to make a donation explicitly given consent for it ? Or is WMF boldly deciding not to follow the requirements in that policy ? Thank you for the answer. [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] ([[User talk:Anthere|talk]]) 21:20, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:it goes without saying that the current change of policy seems to be particularly fitting well with the GDPR calendar... [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] ([[User talk:Anthere|talk]]) 21:21, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Just to avoid confusion: The changes do ''not'' make the privacy policy GDPR compliant: A lot of the mandatory information required by art. 13 GDPR is missing. This is a little confusing in light of the timing of the current changes, which would suggest otherwise. —[[User:Gnom|Gnom]] ([[User talk:Gnom|talk]]) <small>[[Environmental impact|Let's make Wikipedia green!]]</small> 21:47, 21 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:ok. Thank you for the clarification. [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] ([[User talk:Anthere|talk]]) 17:25, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::Official summary on article 13 etc.: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/principles-gdpr/what-information-must-be-given-individuals-whose-data-collected_en --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 20:47, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
WMF-policy is not compliant to GDPR at least for following rules and probably more:<br />
Not clear is<br />
* for how long the data will be kept;<br />
* who else might receive it;<br />
You're much too late to make changes IMNSHO. Perhaps following USA laws and ignore those valid in EU? &nbsp;[[User_talk:KlaasZ4usV|Klaas]]&nbsp;`Z4&#x241f;`&nbsp;[[User:KlaasZ4usV|V]]:&nbsp; 17:33, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::See also [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Data_Protection_Officer topic about Data Protection Officer] [[User:Taraseq|Taraseq]] ([[User talk:Taraseq|talk]]) 13:26, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::I am not convinced that the WMF needs a Data Protection Officer. But ianal. Not worried about this one. <br />
:::However, I know that the WMF currently collects quite a bit of money from donations coming from European donors. And I know for a fact that it uses a database of previous donators, that the WMF send emails every year to sollicitate for further donations. This database contains information about European donors. Hence my curiosity with regards to the compliance, as... as a previous donor and a recipiendary of those targeted emails, I would somewhat expect that the topic be raised ? [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] ([[User talk:Anthere|talk]])<br />
::::{{replyto|Anthere}} this privacy policy does not deal with that I think. By going to https://donate.wikimedia.org you will find a link to the FAQ, which links to the [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donor_privacy_policy Donor privacy policy]. I agree that 1, that link should be directly advertised on donate.wikimedia.org, and 2 some crosslinking might be worthwhile. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 11:05, 25 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::::There is a direct link in the fine print: "By donating, you agree to share your personal information with the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and its service providers pursuant to our donor policy." [[User:Jeroen N|Jeroen N]] ([[User talk:Jeroen N|talk]]) 11:50, 25 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Displaying IP addresses of anon-users ==<br />
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One of the things that always surprised me about mediawiki is that we publicly expose the IP address of editors who we claim to be "anonymous". In reality, through both our software and policies, registered editors are far more anonymous (or pseudonymous) than unregistered editors. This, I don't believe, was ever an active specific ''choice'' to expose IP addresses, and is something which we have built many tools upon to help vandal-fighting and sockpuppet-fighting. However, it seems to me to be quite contrary to our general culture of being extremely high privacy-conscious. It is also counter to the practice of most (all?) other websites which allow unregistered contributions: where newbies are automatically assigned a random username e.g. 'Newbie123456789'.<br />
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Even if it is not legally required of us by GDPR or other regulations, it feels to me to be ''the right thing to do'' to NOT display IP addresses, and instead display an auto-generated ID number.... Admins, or Checkusers or some other level of user-right should still be able to query for the IP address to do vandalfighting of course. Whether the auto-generated ID should be persistent to the IP address, and whether such a system should be retroactive are questions of software implementation (I would argue for "no" in both cases, personally). <br />
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Thoughts? [[User:Wittylama|Wittylama]] ([[User talk:Wittylama|talk]]) 12:49, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:Note, "we" (as in Wikimedia and MediaWiki) don't claim they're anonymous. The official term is [[unregistered user]]. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 20:44, 22 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::I think I agree with [[User:Wittylama|Wittylama]]. I bet this has already been discussed elsewhere, though. --[[User:Gnom|Gnom]] ([[User talk:Gnom|talk]]) <small>[[Environmental impact|Let's make Wikipedia green!]]</small> 04:43, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::The main reference is [[mw:Requests for comment/Exposure of user IP addresses]]. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 06:23, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Thanks for the suggestion, {{u|Wittylama}}. We've passed it along to our technical teams for consideration. [[User:TSebro (WMF)|TSebro (WMF)]] ([[User talk:TSebro (WMF)|talk]]) 21:55, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:: I think your reply here is incredibly lame and disappointing. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 03:04, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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: Hi [[User:Wittylama|Wittylama]]. I would certainly be interested if you gave these ideas more thought and probed the nuance here further. How and if we handle users have not logged in is a pretty complex subject. For example, we could pretty trivially require that all users log in, which pretty neatly solves the problem of exposing IP addresses. Do we want to do that today? Do we ever want to do that? How much of the wiki's strength and identity is tied to the ability of drive-by, casual contributors to make edits? Do we want to retain that capability?<br />
: Brion has [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-November/085468.html suggested] eliminating the use of IP addresses entirely. Your position seems to be more of a compromise, where IP addresses are still retained, but less exposed. This is not a novel idea, but it quickly raises difficult implementation questions. Namely, how would this actually work? Would every edit that's not logged in get a new unique user ID? If so, how do you prevent abuse? How would we track a single computer user editing across many articles? If you try to persist the identity for more than one edit, how long do you do this? Let's say you can auto-create an account for the first edit and assign it a user name such as "Newbie123". What password would this user account have? What e-mail address would be associated with it? How long would it stay logged in and once it's logged out, how would anyone get back in?<br />
: Consider a bit deeper what you're asking for regarding the privacy of accounts. You acknowledge that knowing which IP address "Newbie123" is using could be important and we may need to expand the pool of users with access to this information to include administrators. This stands pretty directly in contrast with the people who think storing IP addresses at all is risky and problematic. And even to people like you who are seeking a compromise solution, you'd be expanding the pool of people with access to what previously would've been considered private and confidential info (IP address info of registered users). Is it reasonable to expand the pool of users who can view the IP addresses of users? Would such an expansion be better than the status quo of exposing IP addresses to the general public? Are we okay with destroying the ability of projects such as <https://twitter.com/congressedits> to function?<br />
: As Nemo notes, there's a draft document about this topic. You're more than welcome to help expand it. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 03:25, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::I have the same thoughts than Wittylama. Maybe it should just say "Unregistered User" rather than showing the IP for years. IPs at least IPv4 can be shared. On articles it's not important who is who and on discussions it's often clear or someone can give himself a nickname or maybe different colors. Everyone who wants to be anonymous should better register (under this or that name). --[[User:Kungfuman|Kungfuman]] ([[User talk:Kungfuman|talk]]) 19:36, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:I fully agree with Wittylama. The danger of IP is something a user may not be aware of. I think it is very wrong to display them in clear. I would support having them converted to some random id per IP so contributions from a single IP can be tracked - but other editors will not be able to tell where they came from. It should be possible for highly privileged person to find the corresponding IP for purposes like finding trolls. Possibly a new identity should be generated if the last access has been some time ago say three months as that possibly indicates a new user is using a dynamic IP. I believe displaying IPs is by far the greatest privacy problem, it is a real problem and can cause danger to people in repressive regimes and it should be fixed as soon as possible. [[User:Dmcq|Dmcq]] ([[User talk:Dmcq|talk]]) 23:07, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
If one were to use status quo i.e. display of unregistered users IP addresses, then have a universal one to one mapping to a different ID for every possible IP address, it should be simple to implement. The set of people that are able to view IP addresses would be reduced dramatically. All the current tools for dealing with trolls and defacing encyclopaedia entries would be retained. A good improvement in privacy with little effort, and provides time to consider if there are better options. Persistency of the ID number would be identical to the existing persistence of unregistered users IP addresses. Worst case is someone decrypts the mapping, and you end up with status quo i.e. unregistered users IP addresses available. {{unsigned|118.93.21.5}}<br />
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It's more complicated that just GDPR. Remember that people are legally licensing the content they add to the page, (as mentioned in the line just above the Publish Changes button. They are signing a contract of sorts. And contracts are an important exception to GDRP. Now I agree that our implementation is somewhat balancing on the edges of both Contract law requirements and GDPR requirements and I think that is exactly why you won't hear the lawyers comment on this. I think this can only be really settled with court cases. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 08:52, 25 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:80% of constructive edits come from IPs. However, when an IP removes an edit by a tendentious registered editor the editor adds it back, claiming that 80% of vandalism comes from IPs. He then goes to RfPP or a friendly administrator's talk page and requests semi-protection. He then opens the IP's contribution record and reverts all the other edits the IP made. The administrator who does the protection adds the page to his watchlist, accesses the IPs contribution record, reverts any edits by the IP which have not been reverted and protects all the other pages the IP has edited. Every time a page on the watchlist is edited by an IP (should protection have expired) the same thing happens. The Foundation is presumably unaware this is happening because in [[Privacy policy/FAQ]] it says<br />
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{{xt|A local community of editors or contributors (for example, the English Wikipedia community or the Malay Wiktionary community) or the Wikimedia Foundation itself may decide to place temporary or permanent restrictions on what you can change.}}<br />
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These permanent protections are made on the authority of a single administrator who gives no reasons and notifies his action to nobody. The protections are unchallengeable because other administrators are not permitted to remove them. At the risk of trivialising the scale of the problem here is the revision chronology of three articles on three days in the summer of 2015:<br />
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[[en:Hemen Majumdar]]<br />
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'''22 August'''<br />
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* 13:48 IP corrects the birthplace from Bongaigaon to Kishoregani, adds the death date (22 July 1948), corrects the occupation from "Philosoper" [sic] to "Painting" and corrects the birthdate in the persondata from 19 September 1871 to 14 April 1894 (the correct date is already in the infobox)<br />
* 14:12 Jc3s5h reverts<br />
* 14:17 IP reverts, pointing out that the corrections are sourced<br />
* 14:21 Jc3s5h reverts<br />
* 15:25 IP restores correct information<br />
* 15:26 Favonian reverts<br />
* 17:51 IP restores the correct information, pointing out that "Philosoper" is not a word<br />
* 17:55 Favonian reverts<br />
* 17:56 Favonian protects the page<br />
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[[en:Greenwich Mean Time]]<br />
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'''21 August'''<br />
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* 20:31 IP adds the essential information that the Greenwich Time Signal is wrong (by many seconds) when broadcast over digital radio<br />
* 20:46 change is accepted by a senior editor who holds a science degree from Oxford University<br />
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'''22 August'''<br />
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* 12:57 Jc3s5h reverts<br />
* 13:41 IP restores the change, pointing out that there is consensus for it<br />
* 14:07 Jc3s5h reverts<br />
* 14:20 Jc3s5h requests page protection <br />
* 14:26 NeilN protects the page<br />
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[[en:Prime meridian (Greenwich)]]<br />
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'''23 August'''<br />
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* 11:40 IP removes a link to a disambiguation page and replaces it with a direct link to the relevant article<br />
* 12:03 Jc3s5h reverts<br />
* 12:30 IP restores the link and says (s)he has raised the matter at ANI. The ANI filing ends with this statement:<br />
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{{talkquote|The examples of edits that he has provided appear to have little to with the case as given. In addition, the case page has been semi-protected to ensure that none of the IP addresses accused can respond to the case (a request for removal has been filed).<br />
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It is worth noting that there has been a flurry of editing activity at Prime meridian (Greenwich) within which two editor4s are attempting to WP:OWN the article by objecting to what others are editing in. I have to note that Jc3s5h who is also attempting to own the article has also chimed in and reverting the same good faith (and correct) edits.}} - 86.145.209.15 12:24, 23 August 2015<br />
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A concomitant filing at RfPP notes:<br />
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{{xt|This is a case page raised against a sockmaster, but is alleging that a number of dynamic IP address are the sock puppets of the sockmaster. The IP's are vaguely related in that they all geolocate to arround the London area (not a reliable guide because dynamic IP address will always geolocate to the server when they are not assigned).}}<br />
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{{xt|In spite of the allegation being predominantly against IP address editors, the page has been semi-protected to make sure that none of those IP address editors can actually respond. It is believed that the case has been raised in an attempt to prevent at least one IP editor from editing in the same article as the person who raised it. If the semi-protection is not going to be removed, then the cae should be closed on the basis that response to the allegations has been blocked.}} - 86.145.209.15 12:05, 23 August 2015<br />
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The ANI complaint continues:<br />
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{{talkquote|Since I have been deliberately prevented from responding at the SPI. According to the evidence put up by Jc3s5h, everyone who edits Wikipedia and lives in London ''must'' be sockpuppets of each other. That is his sole evidence. With a population of 8.6 million people, I await all the future SPI cases whenever he dislikes anyone's editing.}} - 86.145.209.15 12:41, 23 August 2015<br />
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* 12:45 Jc3s5h requests semi-protection of Prime meridian (Greenwich)<br />
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* The IP responds at ANI:<br />
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{{talkquote|That is nothing more than your determined attempt to make sure that I cannot respond to your malicious allegations where you made them. I note that you continue to add irelevances secure in the knowledge that they cannot be answered... <br />
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And both users, are intent on proving sockpuppetry relying solely on the fact that the accused happens to geolocate to London. Problem is: that the case falls down because this IP address does not geolocate to London, but around 10 miles or so east of where I am (though it probably will do if my IP address changes - something over which I have no control).}} - 86.145.209.15 13:04, 23 August 2015 <br />
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* At RfPP the IP responds:<br />
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{{talkquote|See next section. This is an attempt by Jc3s5h to prevent a user from editing ''his'' article. He has also taken to raising an SPI making surious allegations based on evidence no stronger than that I live in London (which I don't by the way) and protecting the SPI so that the accused cannot answer. I also submit that this is also in relaliation to the recent ANI case raised.}}<br />
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* 14:30 NeilN reverts the correction at Prime meridian (Greenwich)<br />
* 14:31 NeilN protects Prime meridian (Greenwich)<br />
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NeilN has the final word at RfPP:<br />
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{{talkquote|If infestation continues, next duration will be longer.}} - NeilN 14:32, 23 August 2015 <br />
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Nobody determined the '''unprotection''' request, however NeilN made this comment:<br />
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{{xt|Note I have blocked the IP as a sock.}} -- NeilN 14:57, 23 August 2015<br />
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A registered editor attempted to enforce fair play on the SPI page:<br />
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{{talkquote|None of the IP addresses are anything other than what they appear to be. Legitimate IP addresses used by the UK's largest telecom provider that geolocate more or less exactly where they say they are.}} - DieSwartzPunkt 17:26, 23 August 2015<br />
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but with no luck:<br />
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{{talkquote|This tells me you didn't take my suggestion and/or have not done any analysis (or are ignoring it).}} -- NeilN 17:31, 23 August 2015<br />
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===Exemption for "academic, artistic or literary expression"===<br />
Art. IV, §1 defines 'personal information' as:<br />
:"[A]ny information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly '''or indirectly''', in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, '''an identification number, location data, an online identifier''' or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person."<br />
It seems clear to me that IP addresses would likely be considered 'personal information' that is protected by the GDPR. However, there is an important exception to the GDPR regulation that is found in Art. 85, which says: <br />
:(1) "'''Member States shall by law reconcile the right to the protection of personal data pursuant to this Regulation with the right to freedom of expression and information''', including processing for journalistic purposes '''and the purposes of academic, artistic or literary expression.'''"<br />
:(2) "For processing carried out for journalistic purposes or the purpose of academic artistic or literary expression, Member States shall provide for exemptions or derogations from Chapter II (principles), Chapter III (rights of the data subject), Chapter IV (controller and processor), Chapter V (transfer of personal data to third countries or international organisations), Chapter VI (independent supervisory authorities), Chapter VII (cooperation and consistency) and Chapter IX (specific data processing situations) if they are necessary to reconcile the right to the protection of personal data with the freedom of expression and information."<br />
:(3) "Each Member State shall notify to the Commission the provisions of its law which it has adopted pursuant to paragraph 2 and, without delay, any subsequent amendment law or amendment affecting them."<br />
The legal status of Article 85 of the GDPR is that it requires Member States to enact certain laws on the subject. Unfortunately, however, I have not found any guide to how Member States have enacted this provision into their national laws. The right to freedom of expression in Europe is far less than the right under the First Amendment in the United States. In addition to protection under various national laws/constitutions, [[:w:Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights]] (links to en-WP)says in relevant part:<br />
:"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. ... The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society ... for the protection of the ... rights of others."<br />
In my opinion, it is likely that the use of IP addresses to identify Wikipedia contributors would be protected freedom of expression for and not subject to GDPR's restrictions for a couple of reasons: (1) it is necessary to attribute content to editors for the purpose of copyright; (2) the contributors knowingly agree to irrevocably publish their content under the Creative Commons license, which requires attribution; (3) the corollary of #2, which is that since the content of most Wikimedia projects is licensed under CC BY-SA, the other editors need to know the identity of contributors to properly attribute content; (4) the contributors knowingly agree to publish their content knowing that other editors will make adjustments to their content; and (5) the needs of Wikimedia projects to prevent vandalism. I updated the content of [[:w:Wikipedia:Data mining]] on English Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Data_mining_Wikipedia&diff=832345192&oldid=777028257 in March] to warn data miners of the problems GDPR presents and am going to clarify the information even more after posting this comment. [[User:AHeneen|AHeneen]] ([[User talk:AHeneen|talk]]) 03:00, 26 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Comparison with Wikia ==<br />
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I think http://www.wikia.com/Privacy_Policy makes for an instructive reading. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 12:12, 23 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Motivations? ==<br />
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What motivations are behind this change? I assume there are financial benefits - perhaps to offset server costs?<br />
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:I assume the implementation of EU´s [[en:General Data Protection Regulation]] on 25 May 2018. [[User:Alexpl|Alexpl]] ([[User talk:Alexpl|talk]]) 08:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
::As [[User:Gnom]] already pointed out, these changes do not make the Foundation GDPR compliant. They also don't mention anywhere that that is the intention behind these changes, as far as I can see. The timing looks like a strange coincidence. [[User:Jeroen N|Jeroen N]] ([[User talk:Jeroen N|talk]]) 09:21, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::See also [[Wikimedia_Forum#Data_Protection_Officer|the forum]] about Data Protection Officer.&nbsp;[[User_talk:KlaasZ4usV|Klaas]]&nbsp;`Z4&#x241f;`&nbsp;[[User:KlaasZ4usV|V]]:&nbsp; 20:53, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Google ==<br />
So - can Google somehow get my IP adress from Wikimedia/Wikidata/Wikipedia despite me editing there under a username only - Yes or No ? [[User:Alexpl|Alexpl]] ([[User talk:Alexpl|talk]]) 08:40, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:If you don't visit Google, only Wikimedia project, then the answer should be no. [[User:Stryn|Stryn]] ([[User talk:Stryn|talk]]) 14:03, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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::I thought they were somehow engaged with Wikidata... [[User:Alexpl|Alexpl]] ([[User talk:Alexpl|talk]]) 15:51, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:::They aren't. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 15:55, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Enforcement ==<br />
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Policy is always nice, but without enforcement it is meaningless. There have been multiple breaches of privacy of more than one individual, and by the very people who are supposed to be enforcing it. In some cases, volunteers entrusted with PII have even released this information intentionally. There is still no standard for vetting and training oversighters, or reporting mechanism for breaches. The NDAs signed by oversighters are meaningless, because they are volunteers, not employees or contractors. In spite of multiple failures of the system, there has been no public investigation or examination of the system itself, or even an acknowledgment of the problem. Perhaps it is time for an outside evaluation? —[[User:Neotarf|Neotarf]] ([[User talk:Neotarf|talk]]) 23:13, 24 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Navigation and clarity ==<br />
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Would it be possible to add some sort of headings or anchors or TOC for the convenience of those trying to communicate with volunteers who are trying to revdelete or oversight, particularly the section defining "personal information"? <br />
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According to wordcounter.net, the "Privacy policy" document page is more than 5000 words long, is written on a college graduate level, and takes 19 minutes to read. <br />
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The section I am referring to in particular is in the first table under the subheading "definitions" under what looks like a Level 2 heading "welcome". It is in the 6th cell down from the top. If that description is confusing, this is why it needs navigation aids. I once exchanged about a dozen emails with a Berkeley-educated admin trying to describe a particular PII violation before they could understand what I was talking about. My conversations with non-native English speaking oversighters has been even more of an adventure. Can this language be made more user friendly, for instance "''(c) any of the items in subsections (a) or (b) when associated with your user account''". 'My' user account? "a" and "b" and "c" all together plus the user name? I have to read this several times to get it, at least I think I get the intent of the paragraph.<br />
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There is also no mention of geolocation. I have seen someone take an IP and use it to approximate a user's location and associate that city or neighborhood with the user name, this particularly has happened off-wiki. Is it worth mentioning location separately? Did you know that 87% of users in the U.S. could be matched to a data base with nothing more than their zip code, sex, and birth date? http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html<br />
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I see also the definition of "medical conditions or disabilities" has been changed. There used to be a link to a fuller explanation, that someone could be on a dialysis list or organ transplant list, and revealing this information could lead to them being identified IRL. The way it has been changed to read makes it look like you cannot say someone has a cold. This might be particularly chilling for someone trying to report a potential medical emergency. <br />
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Has anyone asked the people who actually use this to request oversight or process the requests what they think? Some of these people probably do not want to comment publicly, considering the subject matter, but they are the ones who can tell you more about how to make it more usable. —[[User:Neotarf|Neotarf]] ([[User talk:Neotarf|talk]]) 00:02, 25 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== Checklist for digital security ==<br />
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This is a more general/abstract/geeky comment. I have just run across this checklist for digital security that might provide a tool for thinking about the privacy policy. <br />
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Checklists have been used in aviation and in the hospital industry, this is about using them for other applications. For anyone who wants to go down this rabbit hole, here is a list of associated links: <br />
* [https://github.com/leeange/DSPPUX-Checklist]Digital Security and Privacy Protection UX Checklist (DSPPUX-Checklist) "This checklist provides suggestions to promote digital security and privacy for people who are designing and developing tools for targeted communities."<br />
* [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist]"The Checklist: If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?" by Atul Gawande in ''The New Yorker''<br />
* [https://twitter.com/geminiimatt/status/998341924359688199]Link to tweet about github checklist from @geminiimatt<br />
* [https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-secret-to-ensuring-follow]"The Secret to Ensuring Follow-Through" by Peter Bregman, ''Harvard Business Review'' (more on checklists to keep the ball from dropping during handoffs)<br />
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It seems like some of these ideas could be used to evaluate Wikipedia institutions and processes.<br />
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Just for starters, looking at the github checklist, where is WMF sensitive data stored? The arbitration committee has a notoriously leaky mailing list, and emails containing PII are retained by the individual arbitrators, even if they have intentionally disclosed PII in the past. Information remains on the mailing list in perpetuity, and is available to each new tranche of arbitrators. Yet, only a few weeks ago, I was asked by the committee to disclose information to the mailing list that could be used to identify me in the future. <br />
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From the New Yorker piece: "Pronovost [corporation] also insisted that each participating hospital assign to each unit a senior hospital executive, who would visit the unit at least once a month, hear people’s complaints, and help them solve problems...The executives were reluctant. They normally lived in meetings worrying about strategy and budgets...In some places, they encountered hostility. But their involvement proved crucial. In the first month,[description of a specific problem]... This was a problem only an executive could solve."<br />
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With Wikipedia's decentralized problem-solving structure, when something isn't working, who do you call? —[[User:Neotarf|Neotarf]] ([[User talk:Neotarf|talk]]) 01:12, 25 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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== UI after ‘describe the edit you made’ ==<br />
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Many people here bring up good ideas about hiding camera metadata, ip addresses and so forth. My thought is that a UI window could be added after the ‘describe the edit you made’ window that could give the user privacy options. The purpose of this would be 1.) to let new or uninformed users make their edits without too much effort up front thereby not ‘scaring them away’ and 2.) to have transparent options to publish or delete and explanation about what publishing metadata or IP info (or other similar info) can mean for the user. [[User:Victorgrigas|Victorgrigas]] ([[User talk:Victorgrigas|talk]]) 13:53, 28 May 2018 (UTC) [[User:Victorgrigas|Victorgrigas]] ([[User talk:Victorgrigas|talk]]) 13:53, 28 May 2018 (UTC)</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Az1568&diff=113441User:Az15682018-03-01T07:56:33Z<p>Az1568: </p>
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Most of my time is spent on [[m:Main Page|Meta]] and a few of the other Wikimedia projects. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent, freenode [[m:IRC/Group_Contacts|IRC Group Contact for Wikimedia]], and help develop and run various IRC bots as a member of the Countervandalism Network ([[m:CVN|CVN]]) staff.<br />
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In the past, I've been a [[wmf:Job_openings/Fundraiser_Production_Coordinator|Production Coordinator]] while working on the [[m:fundraising 2011|2011 Fundraiser]], and also worked in the [[RFP/Help_Desk_-_Tier_1|Office IT]] department for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. <br />
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Official acts by me in the line of my work were done from my office account, [[User:Azariv|User:Azariv-WMF]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]<br />
* IRC: AlexZ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
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*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
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*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
*[[m:Special:CentralNotice|Central notice admin]]<br />
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Most of my time is spent on [[m:Main Page|Meta]] and a few of the other Wikimedia projects. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent, freenode [[m:IRC/Group_Contacts|IRC Group Contact for Wikimedia]], and help develop and run various IRC bots as a member of the Countervandalism Network ([[m:CVN|CVN]]) staff.<br />
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In the past, I've been a [[wmf:Job_openings/Fundraiser_Production_Coordinator|Production Coordinator]] while working on the [[m:fundraising 2011|2011 Fundraiser]], and also worked in the [[RFP/Help_Desk_-_Tier_1|Office IT]] department for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. <br />
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Official acts by me in the line of my work were done from my office account, [[User:Azariv|User:Azariv-WMF]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]<br />
* IRC: AlexZ_ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
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===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
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Much of my time is spent on [[m:Main Page|Meta]] and a few of the other Wikimedia projects. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent, [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]], and help develop and run various IRC bots as a member of the Countervandalism Network ([[m:CVN|CVN]]) staff.<br />
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In the past, I've been a [[wmf:Job_openings/Fundraiser_Production_Coordinator|Production Coordinator]] while working on the [[m:fundraising 2011|2011 Fundraiser]], and also worked in the [[RFP/Help_Desk_-_Tier_1|Office IT]] department for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. <br />
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Official acts by me in the line of my work were done from my office account, [[User:Azariv|User:Azariv-WMF]].<br />
==Links==<br />
*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]<br />
* IRC: AlexZ_ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
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===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
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Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]]. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent, [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]], and help develop and run various IRC bots as a member of the Countervandalism Network ([[m:CVN|CVN]]) staff.<br />
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In the past, I've been a [[wmf:Job_openings/Fundraiser_Production_Coordinator|Production Coordinator]] while working on the [[m:fundraising 2011|2011 Fundraiser]], and also worked in the [[RFP/Help_Desk_-_Tier_1|Office IT]] department for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. <br />
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Official acts by me in the line of my work were done from my office account, [[User:Azariv|User:Azariv-WMF]].<br />
==Links==<br />
*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]<br />
* IRC: AlexZ_ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
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*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
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Esta página muestra las '''preguntas frecuentes''' sobre la Fundación Wikimedia. Si no encuentras la respuesta a tu pregunta, por favor, siéntete libre de ''[[contáctenos]]''.<br />
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== ¿Qué es Wikipedia? ==<br />
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[//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] es la enciclopedia más grande y popular del mundo. Está en línea, es libre de ser usada para cualquier propósito, y no tiene publicidad. Wikipedia contiene mas de {{ALL-WP-COUNT|million=true}} millones de artículos cuyos autores son voluntarios en mas de {{WP-EDITIONS-COUNT}} idiomas, y es visitada por más de {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} millones de personas cada mes, lo cual la convierte en una de las sitios más populares en el mundo. <br />
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Es una creación colaborativa que ha sido ampliada y editada por millones de personas durante los últimos catorce años: cualquiera puede editarla en cualquier momento. Se ha convertido en la mayor fuente de conocimiento compartido en la historia de la humanidad. La gente que la apoya está unida por su amor por el aprendizaje, su curiosidad intelectual y la conciencia de que sabemos más en conjunto, que cualquiera de nosotros por separado.<br />
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== ¿Qué es la Fundación Wikimedia? ==<br />
La fundación Wikimedia es una organización sin ánimo de lucro que opera Wikipedia y [[nuestros proyectos|otros proyectos de conocimiento libre]]. Ambos sitios son la quinta propiedad web más visitada del mundo. La Fundación Wikimedia es una organización 501(c)(3) organización exenta de impuestos con oficinas en San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos de América. Usted puede revisar nuestra [[:File:501%28c%293_Letter.png|carta de exención de impuestos]] y nuestro [[financial reports|informes financieros]].<br />
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Nuestra misión es promover una comunidad de voluntarios globales para reunir y desarrollar el saber mundial, y ponerlo a disposición de todo el mundo gratis y para cualquier propósito. Nosotros trabajamos junto con una [[local chapters|red de capítulos locales]] en muchos países diferentes para conseguir este objetivo.<br />
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== ¿Cuáles son los proyectos de conocimiento libre que apoyas? ==<br />
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Ademas de [[w:es:|Wikipedia]], la Fundación Wikimedia apoya a muchos proyectos de conocimiento libre:<br />
* [[wiktionary:es:|Wikcionario]] - diccionario con sinónimos<br />
* [[wikiquote:es:|Wikiquote]] - colección de citas<br />
* [[wikibooks:es:|Wikilibros]] - libros, manuales y libros de cocina<br />
* [[s:es:|Wikisource]] - biblioteca de textos originales<br />
* [[commons:Portada|Commons]] - imágenes y multimedia<br />
* [[species:es:|Wikispecies]] - directorio de especies<br />
* [[n:es:|Wikinoticias]] - noticias libres<br />
* [[v:es:Portada|Wikiversidad]] - materiales y actividades de aprendizaje<br />
* [[d:es:|Wikidata]] - una base de datos vinculada libre<br />
* [[voy:es:|Wikivoyage]] - guías de viaje<br />
* [[mw:|MediaWiki]] - documentación del software que usa Wikimedia<br />
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La Fundación Wikimedia [[w:es:Wikipedia:WikiLeaks no es parte de la Fundación Wikimedia|no está afiliada]] con WikiLeaks.<br />
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== Si realizo una donación a la Fundación Wikimedia, ¿cómo se usa mi dinero? ==<br />
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Dinero que has donado para ayudar a la infraestructura que sostiene Wikipedia: servidores, tecnología, personal y programas de la comunidad. Aunque Wikipedia y sus proyectos hermanos alcanzan a {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} millones de personas cada mes, solo empleamos {{STAFF-COUNT}} personas; Vea nuestra visión general del [[staff]].<br />
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== ¿Dónde puedo encontrar más información financiera? ==<br />
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El '[https://annual.wikimedia.org/2014/ informe anual 2013-14 de la Fundación Wikimedia]' cubre el año fiscal desde el 1 de Julio de 2013 al 30 de Junio de 2014. Comparte unas voces de los miles de personas en el movimiento y expresa 'cómo el mundo cuenta su historia' a través del increíble trabajo de nuestros proyectos plurilingües y describe las prioridades, desafíos y logros en nuestro movimiento. El informe anual 2014-2015 se presenta en enero de 2016<br />
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El [[wmf: 2015-2016 Annual Plan|Plan Anual 2015-16]] es nuestro presupuesto para el presente año fiscal. Contiene un resumen de nuestras metas estratégicas, detalles financieros en cuanto a gastos y beneficios y explicaciones y análisis de riesgos detallados.<br />
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== ¿Cómo funciona la Fundación Wikimedia? ==<br />
La Fundación Wikimedia tiene un [[staff|equipo]] de {{STAFF-COUNT}} personas, a la cabeza de la Directora Ejecutiva, [[User:LilaTretikov|Lila Tretikov]]. El equipo apoya el trabajo de los cientos de miles de voluntarios que contribuyen al contenido de los proyectos de Wikimedia. La Fundación Wikimedia también recibe el apoyo de incontables voluntarios que participan en diferentes comités, como internos o "ad hoc".<br />
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El [[Board of Trustees|Consejo de Administración]] articula la [[Mission_statement|misión]] y la [[vision|visión]] de la Fundación Wikimedia, revisa y ayuda a desarrollar planes a largo plazo, supervisa y apoya a la Fundación Wikimedia en la recaudación de fondos. Es la última instancia y autoridad dentro de la organización de la Fundación Wikimedia de acuerdo a sus Estatutos.<br />
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Nos esforzamos para trabajar de la forma más trasparente que sea posible, y hemos publicado [[policies|políticas claves]] e [[finance report|información financiera]].<br />
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== ¿Cómo se financia la Fundación Wikimedia? ==<br />
La Fundación Wikimedia se basa principalmente en {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=donaciones}} de cientos de miles de individuos, pero también a través de varios fondos y benefactores de servidores y alojamiento (vea[[benefactors|benefactores]])<br />
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La Fundación Wikimedia Foundation tiene el estado de exención tributaria 501(c)(3) en los Estados Unidos. Las donaciones hechas de otros países también pueden ser deducibles de impuestos. vea [[deductibility of donations|deducibilidad de donaciones]] para más detalles. Haga click [[Ways to Give/en|aquí]] para detalles sobre como hacer una donación a través de PayPal, MoneyBookers o por correo postal. Para todas las demás formas de donación, por favor contáctese con nosotros a donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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== ¿Cuales son sus planes? ¿A dónde va esto? ==<br />
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Así nos pregunta la visión de la Fundación: ''"Imagina un mundo en donde todo ser humano pueda compartir gratis la suma de total del conocimiento."'' Nosotros nos tomamos en serio esta visión. Nosotros aspiramos a alcanzar a todos, y a proveer continuamente más y mejor información. Estas son algunas de las actividades en las que estamos enfocándonos ahora mismo:<br />
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''Fotografía: Los servidores de la Fundación Wikimedia en nuestras instalaciones en Tejas (por Victor Grigas CC-BY-SA 3.0).''<br />
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'''Facilitando el acceso a Wikipedia en todas partes.''' Necesitamos asegurarnos que nuestros sitios y servicios apoyan una experiencia multi-plataforma, incluyendo en móvil. Nuestro trabajo con el [[wmf:Wikipedia Zero|Programa Wikipedia Cero]], un programa dirigido en proveer acceso libre a Wikipedia en aparatos móviles en el Mundo Sur, es una de las maneras estamos ampliando el alcance de Wikimedia alrededor del mundo. Este trabajo es el principio, y constantemente buscamos nuevas maneras para lograr a más personas en más partes del mundo.<br />
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''Fotografía: La versión móvil de Wikipedia funciona en la PlayStation Portable y en los teléfonos inteligentes.''<br />
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'''Dar a los voluntarios de Wikimedia herramientas nuevas para hacer su trabajo.''' Nuestro objetivo es hacer tan fácil como sea posible contribuir conocimiento, y para dar a los voluntarios y a los lectores herramientas excelentes para evaluar y mejorar la cualidad de artículos. Por ejemplo, una de las nuevas, la [[mw:Content translation|Herramienta de traducción]], ha sido usado para traducir más que 30.000 artículos nuevos en Wikipedia.<br />
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''Video: Demostración del Herramienta de traducción. (por Pau Giner CC-BY-SA 4.0)''<br />
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'''Apoyar iniciativos comunidades mundial.''' Con la comunidad Wikimedia, apoyamos y desarrollamos una variedad de eventos, iniciativos, y campañas alrededor del mundo. Algunos están dirigidos a informar a voluntarios nuevos; algunos dan la comunidad el espacio para reflejar y mejorar su trabajo. Reconociendo el valor de las personas quien vienen juntos porque están apasionados de la misión de Wikimedia ha sido la clave para nuestro éxito. <br />
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''Fotografía: Wikimania 2015. (por Diego Delso CC-BY-SA 4.0)''<br />
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'''Informar nuestras decisiones con hechos y datos.''' A través del [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ portal de estadísticas], la Fundación proporciona un amplio análisis actualizado que ayuda a comprender el impacto de nuestro trabajo. [[m:Research/Projects|Proyectos de investigación]] nos proporciona un análisis profundo y experimentación, con el apoyo de voluntarios a la cabeza del [[m:Research Committee|Comité de investigaciones]]. Analíticos, investigación, pruebas, y pronósticos son esenciales para hacer decisiones buenas en un ambiente complejo como Wikimedia. <br />
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== ¿Porqué Wikipedia no tiene publicidad para generar ganancias? ==<br />
No creemos que la publicidad comercial tenga un sitio en un proyecto que está dedicado a la educación y que además tiene como valores una enciclopedia neutral y equilibrada. Nuestra gran comunidad global de voluntarios (las personas que hacen Wikipedia) siempre han creído que la publicidad comercial afectaría nuestra disposición para permanecer neutrales y que, al final, los anuncios menguarían la confianza que los lectores tienen en los artículos que están leyendo.<br />
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<div>'''Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance'''<br />
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''Amnesty, Rutherford Institute, Human Rights Watch among 9 co-plaintiffs''<br />
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Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is filing suit against the [[w:National_Security_Agency|National Security Agency]] (NSA) and the [[w:United_States_Department_of_Justice|Department of Justice]] (DOJ) of the United States <ref> Other defendants include: Michael Rogers, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service; Office of the Director of National Intelligence; James Clapper, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; and Eric Holder, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States.</ref>. The lawsuit challenges the NSA’s mass surveillance program, and specifically its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications — frequently referred to as “upstream” surveillance. Our aim in filing this suit is to end this mass surveillance program in order to protect the rights of our users around the world. We are joined by eight other organizations <ref> Today, we’re proud to bring this lawsuit alongside a coalition of organizations from across the ideological spectrum, including The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, Pen American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and Washington Office on Latin America. We believe the wide variety of perspectives represented in this lawsuit demonstrates that the defense of privacy and freedom of expression and association is not defined by partisanship or ideology. </ref> and represented by the [[w:American_Civil_Liberties_Union|American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU). The [[:File:Wikimedia_v._NSA_Complaint.pdf|full complaint can be found here]].<br />
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“We’re filing suit today on behalf of our readers and editors everywhere,” said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. “Surveillance erodes the original promise of the internet: an open space for collaboration and experimentation, and a place free from fear.”<br />
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Privacy is the bedrock of individual freedom. It is a universal right that sustains the freedoms of expression and association. These principles enable inquiry, dialogue, and creation and are central to Wikimedia’s [[vision]] of empowering everyone to share in the sum of all human knowledge. When they are endangered, our mission is threatened. If people look over their shoulders before searching, pause before contributing to controversial articles, or refrain from sharing verifiable but unpopular information, Wikimedia and the world are poorer for it.<br />
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When the [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ 2013 public disclosures] about the NSA’s activities revealed the vast scope of their programs, the Wikimedia community was rightfully alarmed. In 2014, the Wikimedia Foundation began conversations with the ACLU about the possibility of filing suit against the NSA and other defendants on behalf of the Foundation, its staff, and its users.<br />
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Our case today challenges the NSA’s use of upstream surveillance conducted under the authority of the 2008 [[w:Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008|Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act]] (FAA). Upstream surveillance taps the internet’s “[[w:Internet_backbone|backbone]]” to capture communications with “non-[[w:United_States_person|U.S. persons]].” The FAA authorizes the collection of these communications if they fall into the broad category of “[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html foreign intelligence information]” that includes nearly any information that could be construed as relating to national security or foreign affairs. The program casts a vast net, and as a result, captures communications that are not connected to any “[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once target],” or may be entirely domestic. This includes communications by our users and staff.<br />
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“By tapping the backbone of the internet, the NSA is straining the backbone of democracy,” said [[w:Lila_Tretikov|Lila Tretikov]], executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “Wikipedia is founded on the freedoms of expression, inquiry, and information. By violating our users’ privacy, the NSA is threatening the intellectual freedom that is central to people’s ability to create and understand knowledge.”<br />
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The NSA has interpreted the FAA as offering free rein to define threats, identify [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once targets], and monitor people, platforms, and infrastructure with little regard for probable cause or proportionality. We believe that the NSA’s current practices far exceed the already broad authority granted by the U.S. Congress through the FAA. Furthermore, we believe that these practices violate the U.S. Constitution’s [[w:First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution|First Amendment]], which protects freedom of speech and association, and the [[w:Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution|Fourth Amendment]], which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.<br />
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Additionally, we believe that the NSA’s practices and limited judicial review of those practices violate [[w:Article_Three_of_the_United_States_Constitution|Article III]] of the [[w:United_States_Constitution|U.S. Constitution]]. A specialized court, the [[w:United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court|Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] (FISC), hears issues related to foreign intelligence requests, including surveillance. Under U.S. law, the role of the courts is to resolve “[[w:Case_or_Controversy_Clause|cases” or “controversies]]” — not to issue advisory opinions or interpret theoretical situations. In the context of upstream surveillance, FISC proceedings are not “cases.” There are no opposing parties and no actual “controversy” at stake. FISC merely reviews the legality of the government’s proposed procedures — the kind of advisory opinion that Article III was intended to restrict.<br />
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In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a previous challenge to the FAA, ''[[w:Clapper_v._Amnesty_International_USA|Amnesty v. Clapper]]'', because the parties in that case were found to lack “standing.” [[w:Standing (law)|Standing]] is an important legal concept that requires a party to show that they’ve suffered some kind of harm in order to file a lawsuit. The 2013 mass surveillance disclosures included [https://www.aclu.org/files/natsec/nsa/20140722/Why%20Are%20We%20Interested%20in%20HTTP.pdf a slide from a classified NSA presentation] that made explicit reference to Wikipedia, using our global trademark. Because these disclosures revealed that the government specifically targeted Wikipedia and its users, we believe we have more than sufficient evidence to establish standing.<br />
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Wikipedia is the largest collaborative free knowledge resource in human history. It represents what we can achieve when we are open to possibility and unburdened by fear. Over the past fourteen years, Wikimedians have written more than 34 million articles in 288 different languages. Every month, this knowledge is accessed by nearly half a billion people from almost every country on earth. This dedicated global community of users is united by their passion for knowledge, their commitment to inquiry, and their dedication to the privacy and expression that makes Wikipedia possible. We file today on their behalf.<br />
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For more information, please see our op-ed, ''[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users]'', by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and Wikimedia Foundation executive director Lila Tretikov, in the March 10 edition of ''[[w:The_New_York_Times|The New York Times]]''<ref>To read more about our opposition to mass government surveillance, please see our previous blog posts on PRISM, opposing mass surveillance on the internet, and transparency in the use of surveillance.</ref><br />
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'''About the Wikimedia Foundation'''<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 34 million articles in 288 languages. Every month, tens of thousands of active volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. With nearly half a billion monthly users, projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation are one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.<br />
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''Wikipedia appeals to readers to support the world’s largest free knowledge resource''<br />
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On December 2, 2014, Giving Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation kicked off its year-end contribution campaign on English Wikipedia, requesting donations to support the operating expenses of the Wikimedia sites and global outreach programs. Wikipedia is overwhelmingly supported by small individual donations averaging $15. It is a unique campaign that relies on the power of individuals to keep knowledge free and accessible for the world. <br />
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Wikipedia is written entirely by a community of volunteers who have a passion for sharing and expanding the world’s knowledge. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia, its sister free knowledge projects, and that community of volunteers. Every year, we ask those who value the site to make a contribution to ensure Wikimedia projects are freely available to everyone around the world, in their own language. <br />
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Wikipedia attracts nearly half a billion unique visitors and more than 20 billion monthly page views each month. Every month roughly 70,000 people edit Wikipedia, collectively creating, improving, and maintaining its more than 33.5 million articles in 287 languages. From articles on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_revolution national revolutions] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur feathered dinosaurs] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft) comet landers] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup football tournaments], the world trusts Wikipedia. Together with its sister free knowledge projects such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world.<br />
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This year, hundreds of millions of people turned to Wikipedia to not just understand but also shape the world around them. Here are just a few ways people used Wikipedia: <br />
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* This year the article on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease Ebola virus disease] on the English-language version of Wikipedia received 17 million visits in one month alone, and remained among the most visited articles on Wikipedia throughout the year. Wikipedians at the WikiProject Med Foundation worked with volunteer translators to make the article on Ebola available in more than 50 languages. <br />
* This summer more than 2,000 of the volunteer writers, readers, and users of Wikipedia met in London at [http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania Wikimania], to share and discuss the future of knowledge. Among them was 17 year old [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka Jack Andraka] who, as a high school student, used knowledge found on Wikipedia to develop a new test for pancreatic cancer. <br />
* This autumn, a group of Wikipedia’s volunteer editors were recognized by ''Foreign Policy'' magazine as among the world’s 100 top [http://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/#chroniclers/detail/evans-mabey-mandiberg-ptak-howard-knipel leading global thinkers] for their project, Art+Feminism, designed to advance understanding of the contributions of the world’s female artists and innovators.<br />
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Small donations allow the Wikimedia Foundation to cover the costs of operating Wikipedia, including electricity, servers, and staff. These contributions also allow us to invest in improvements to the technology behind Wikipedia, such as this year’s introduction of a free, fast, native Wikipedia app for iOS and Android, and ongoing improvements to Wikipedia’s search functions and speed. <br />
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Donations also support Foundation initiatives to bring knowledge to people around the world, such as Wikipedia Zero. Wikipedia Zero is a program that enables people who can’t afford mobile data charges to access or contribute to all knowledge on Wikipedia for free on their mobile phone. An estimated 400 million people now have free access to Wikipedia, thanks to 40 operators in 34 countries. This includes users of MTN in South Africa, which introduced Wikipedia Zero after receiving an open letter from grade 12 students at Sinenjongo High School, in the township of Joe Slovo Park, as featured in this short [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero film]. <br />
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As with previous campaigns, this year the Wikimedia Foundation will use a variety of banner formats to reach the movement’s diverse global audience. <br />
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“We are always looking for new ways to reach our readers while minimizing interruption of their experience on Wikipedia,” said Megan Hernandez, Director of Online Fundraising at the Wikimedia Foundation. “This year, our goal is to reach our target more quickly, in order to limit the total number of banners each reader sees. We thank all our contributors for their support and our volunteers who help make these campaigns a widely localized and internationalized effort.”<br />
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“Wikipedia content is growing every year, and it is growing most where it is needed the most. From Cape Town to Naypyidaw and Cairo to Kyiv, Wikipedia is there with free, uncensored content. Individual contributions from ordinary users all over the world are what makes it possible to share knowledge beyond languages, borders or generations” said Lila Tretikov, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
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“All knowledge gathered on Wikipedia is being shared freely and for everybody to edit, change and use as they will. It has been created by the work of hundreds of thousands of people, for the use of millions more. Wikipedia relies on the contributions of many people -- in the form of edits and small donations -- to maintain this independence. It’s always a testament to how much Wikipedia matters that so many people come out to support it every year!” said Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia. <br />
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The online fundraising campaign aims to raise $20 million in December. The remainder of the Wikimedia Foundation’s funding comes from individuals gifts given outside the year-end campaign, and from a handful of foundation grants. <br />
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To make a donation, click the fundraising appeal on Wikipedia, or go directly to [https://donate.wikimedia.org/ donate.wikimedia.org].<br />
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'''About the Wikimedia Foundation'''<br />
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* [https://wikimediafoundation.org/ https://wikimediafoundation.org]<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 33.5 million articles in 287 languages. Every month, roughly 80,000 active volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. According to comScore Media Metrix, the projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive 460 million unique visitors per month on desktop alone, making them one of the ten most popular web properties worldwide (October 2014). Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.<br />
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'''Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact'''<br />
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<div>'''Wikipedia receives the Erasmus Prize for collective achievement of its community'''<br />
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''Becomes the first collaborative community to receive the honor''<br />
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The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation ([http://www.erasmusprijs.org/ Dutch], [http://www.erasmusprijs.org/?lang=en English]) in the Netherlands has announced that it will award the Erasmus Prize 2015 to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community. The Erasmus Prize is one of Europe’s most distinguished recognitions, awarded annually to “a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society or social science.” <br />
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“The Erasmus Prize has a wonderful history of recognizing people who contribute great things to our shared culture, and I am thrilled that Wikipedia now joins these ranks,” said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. “I am particularly pleased to note that this is the first time a really large community of people - and the millions of you who have built Wikipedia to date know who you are - has received this prestigious award.”<br />
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The official announcement came from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation on the same day that Wikipedia marks its 14th anniversary, today, January 15, 2015. This honor provides all the more reason to celebrate the remarkable community whose contributions have made Wikipedia the most comprehensive repository of free information in the history of humanity. <br />
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“I can’t think of a better present for all of the tireless Wikipedia contributors around the world than to win the Erasmus Prize on our 14th birthday,” said Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees and a citizen of the Netherlands where the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation was founded. “I sincerely thank the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for this great honor.” <br />
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“Wikipedia receives the prize because it has promoted the dissemination of knowledge through a comprehensive and universally accessible encyclopaedia. To achieve that, the initiators of Wikipedia have designed a new and effective democratic platform. The prize specifically recognises Wikipedia as a community — a shared project that involves tens of thousands of volunteers around the world.”<br />
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“I am proud that Wikipedia is being recognized for the incredible collective impact it has had to date,” said Lila Tretikov, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “As we look to the future of free knowledge, we will continue to be guided by the principles the Erasmus Prize today honors.” <br />
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This honor is accompanied by an award of €150,000. In keeping with the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation’s intent to recognize the contributions of the Wikimedia community, the Wikimedia Foundation is redirecting these funds towards the Wikipedia community in the form of individual grants and other support for editors and contributors. <br />
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'''About the Wikimedia Foundation'''<br />
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* [https://wikimediafoundation.org/ https://wikimediafoundation.org]<br />
* [https://blog.wikimedia.org/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/]<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 33.5 million articles in 287 languages. Every month, tens of thousands of active volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. According to comScore Media Metrix, the projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive 460 million unique visitors per month on desktop alone, making them one of the ten most popular web properties worldwide (October 2014). Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.<br />
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'''Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact'''<br />
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Katherine Maher<br />
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* +1 415-839-6885 ext 6633<br />
* katherine{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
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<div>'''Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance'''<br />
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''Amnesty, Rutherford Institute, Human Rights Watch among 9 co-plaintiffs''<br />
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Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is filing suit against the [[w:National_Security_Agency|National Security Agency]] (NSA) and the [[w:United_States_Department_of_Justice|Department of Justice]] (DOJ) of the United States <ref> Other defendants include: Michael Rogers, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service; Office of the Director of National Intelligence; James Clapper, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; and Eric Holder, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States.</ref>. The lawsuit challenges the NSA’s mass surveillance program, and specifically its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications — frequently referred to as “upstream” surveillance. Our aim in filing this suit is to end this mass surveillance program in order to protect the rights of our users around the world. We are joined by eight other organizations <ref> Today, we’re proud to bring this lawsuit alongside a coalition of organizations from across the ideological spectrum, including The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, Pen American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and Washington Office on Latin America. We believe the wide variety of perspectives represented in this lawsuit demonstrates that the defense of privacy and freedom of expression and association is not defined by partisanship or ideology. </ref> and represented by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union American Civil Liberties Union] (ACLU). <em>(We will update this post with the final complaint once it has been filed.)</em><br />
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Privacy is the bedrock of individual freedom. It is a universal right that sustains the freedoms of expression and association. These principles enable inquiry, dialogue, and creation and are central to Wikimedia’s [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vision vision] of empowering everyone to share in the sum of all human knowledge. When they are endangered, our mission is threatened. If people look over their shoulders before searching, pause before contributing to controversial articles, or refrain from sharing verifiable but unpopular information, Wikimedia and the world are poorer for it.<br />
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When the [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ 2013 public disclosures] about the NSA’s activities revealed the vast scope of their programs, the Wikimedia community was rightfully alarmed. In 2014, the Wikimedia Foundation began conversations with the ACLU about the possibility of filing suit against the NSA and other defendants on behalf of the Foundation, its staff, and its users.<br />
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Our case today challenges the NSA’s use of upstream surveillance conducted under the authority of the 2008 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act] (FAA). Upstream surveillance taps the internet’s “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone backbone]” to capture communications with “non-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_person U.S. persons].” The FAA authorizes the collection of these communications if they fall into the broad category of “[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html foreign intelligence information]” that includes nearly any information that could be construed as relating to national security or foreign affairs. The program casts a vast net, and as a result, captures communications that are not connected to any “[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once target],” or may be entirely domestic. This includes communications by our users and staff.<br />
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“By tapping the backbone of the internet, the NSA is straining the backbone of democracy,” said [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila_Tretikov Lila Tretikov], executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “Wikipedia is founded on the freedoms of expression, inquiry, and information. By violating our users’ privacy, the NSA is threatening the intellectual freedom that is central to people’s ability to create and understand knowledge.”<br />
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The NSA has interpreted the FAA as offering free rein to define threats, identify [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once targets], and monitor people, platforms, and infrastructure with little regard for probable cause or proportionality. We believe that the NSA’s current practices far exceed the already broad authority granted by the U.S. Congress through the FAA. Furthermore, we believe that these practices violate the U.S. Constitution’s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution First Amendment], which protects freedom of speech and association, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Fourth Amendment], which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.<br />
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Additionally, we believe that the NSA’s practices and limited judicial review of those practices violate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Three_of_the_United_States_Constitution Article III] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution U.S. Constitution]. A specialized court, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] (FISC), hears issues related to foreign intelligence requests, including surveillance. Under U.S. law, the role of the courts is to resolve “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_or_Controversy_Clause cases” or “controversies]” — not to issue advisory opinions or interpret theoretical situations. In the context of upstream surveillance, FISC proceedings are not “cases.” There are no opposing parties and no actual “controversy” at stake. FISC merely reviews the legality of the government’s proposed procedures — the kind of advisory opinion that Article III was intended to restrict.<br />
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In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a previous challenge to the FAA, ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapper_v._Amnesty_International_USA Amnesty v. Clapper]'', because the parties in that case were found to lack “standing.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_%28law%29 Standing] is an important legal concept that requires a party to show that they’ve suffered some kind of harm in order to file a lawsuit. The 2013 mass surveillance disclosures included [https://www.aclu.org/files/natsec/nsa/20140722/Why%20Are%20We%20Interested%20in%20HTTP.pdf a slide from a classified NSA presentation] that made explicit reference to Wikipedia, using our global trademark. Because these disclosures revealed that the government specifically targeted Wikipedia and its users, we believe we have more than sufficient evidence to establish standing.<br />
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Wikipedia is the largest collaborative free knowledge resource in human history. It represents what we can achieve when we are open to possibility and unburdened by fear. Over the past fourteen years, Wikimedians have written more than 34 million articles in 288 different languages. Every month, this knowledge is accessed by nearly half a billion people from almost every country on earth. This dedicated global community of users is united by their passion for knowledge, their commitment to inquiry, and their dedication to the privacy and expression that makes Wikipedia possible. We file today on their behalf.<br />
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For more information, please see our op-ed, ''[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users]'', by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and Wikimedia Foundation executive director Lila Tretikov, in the March 10 edition of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times The New York Times]''<ref>To read more about our opposition to mass government surveillance, please see our previous blog posts on PRISM, opposing mass surveillance on the internet, and transparency in the use of surveillance.</ref><br />
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'''About the Wikimedia Foundation'''<br />
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* [https://wikimediafoundation.org/ https://wikimediafoundation.org]<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 34 million articles in 288 languages. Every month, tens of thousands of active volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. With nearly half a billion monthly users, projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation are one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.<br />
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'''Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact'''<br />
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* '''Name:''' Wikimedia Commons<br />
* '''URL:''' http://commons.wikimedia.org/<br />
* '''Licenses used:''' GFDL, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, public domain, Free Art Licence, CeCILL<br />
* '''Translations of the Main Page:''' 70<br />
* '''Date founded:''' September 7, 2004<br />
* '''Number of registered users:''' 191,174<br />
* '''Number of administrators:''' 218 (0.1%)<br />
* '''Number of media files:''' 1,819,667<br />
* '''Database size:''' 953.7 GB<br />
* '''Number of Featured Pictures:''' 945 (0.05%)<br />
* '''Number of pages:''' 2,299,595 (second only to [[w:|English Wikipedia]] among the Wikimedia Foundation projects)<br />
* '''Strangest edit war:''' [[commons:Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|colours of the Italian flag]] (see the talk page)<br />
* '''Confusion about a connection to Creative Commons:''' moderate<br />
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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons. "Commons" is, unfortunately, a little bit too common these days as far as naming projects go, but bear with us, because this project is anything but common. (And there's no official connection* to [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons], [http://icommons.org/ iCommons], the [http://www.parliament.uk/ House of Commons], or any other "Commons" except the abstract one.)<br />
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Founded just three years ago as a way to avoid uploading the same image to 200 different wikis, Wikimedia Commons began as a central media repository, making life more convenient for Wikimedia editors. Since then it has grown rapidly into a multilingual community of photographers, illustrators, scanners, audio editors, translators, organisers and annotators.<br />
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<div align=center><gallery caption="2006 Picture of the Year winners"><br />
Image:Polarlicht 2.jpg|Picture of the Year: Aurora Borealis, taken by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joshua Strang. Public domain<br />
Image:HomelessParis 7032101.jpg|Second place: ''Sans domicile fixe'' in Paris, taken by [[commons:User:Eric Pouhier|User:Eric Pouhier]]. CC-BY-SA 2.5<br />
Image:Cyanocitta-cristata-004.jpg|Equal third: Blue Jay (''Cyanocitta cristata''), taken by [[commons:User:Mdf|User:Mdf]]. GFDL<br />
Image:Hoverflies mating midair.jpg|Equal third: Hoverflies (''Melangyna viridiceps'') mating in midair, taken by [[commons:User:Fir0002|User:Fir0002]]. GFDL<br />
</gallery></div><br />
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Although the vast majority of files uploaded are JPGs (photographs), the site also [[commons:commons:file types|accepts]] audio and video files (OGG format), scanned images (DJVU) and other graphic formats including PNG and SVG. Video uploads are few, due to limited playback support for the OGG format. Audio uploads are mainly pronunciation files, servicing [[wikt:|Wiktionary]], and [[commons:category:Spoken Wikipedia|spoken Wikipedia]] articles. DJVU files are widely used by [[wikisource:|Wikisource]].<br />
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[[Image:Scheme ant worker anatomy-en.svg|thumb|A stunning diagram of the morphology of a worker ant, created by [[commons:user:LadyofHats|Mariana Ruiz]]. Public domain]]<br />
The uptake of SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphics, has been impressive, with the format now being used for computer icons, detailed diagrams, and even road maps! Around 6% of the total number of files are files in the SVG format. (When the images are used in Wikimedia, the [[mw:|wiki software]] automatically creates PNG thumbnails, for greater accessibility.)<br />
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While comparable in depth and variety to stock photography or clipart archives (or even search engines like Google Images), Wikimedia Commons makes its mark as a project dedicated to only hosting freely-licensed media. Any free-content licence is accepted on the site as long as it allows for certain key freedoms, including commercial use and modification. These conditions are the closest to those of the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License], which is the licence of Wikipedia's text (and most Wikimedia Foundation projects). This means two of the Creative Commons licences are accepted: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution] (CC-BY) and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike] (CC-BY-SA).<br />
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Another feature that distinguishes it from mere archives is the fact that anyone can contribute. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup Registering an account] takes seconds and doesn't even require an email address. From there anyone can instantly upload freely-licensed materials. Wikimedia Commons is not just a collection of "original content" created by Wikimedia editors, but also a kind of "utility filter" on many other media collections on the web, including Flickr and public domain archives.<br />
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Wikimedia Commons' original focus as a convenience for Wikipedia has stood it in good stead. For starters, it acts as a discouragement to people who would upload blurry pictures of their shoelaces taken with a phone-cam. Can you imagine your picture on a specific Wikipedia article that exists today? If not, then it's probably [[commons:Commons:project scope|not suitable]] for Wikimedia Commons.<br />
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Secondly, it acts as an encouragement to the obsessive annotative skills of the Wikipedian and their ilk. Broad, idiosyncratic tags are no good. What's the binomial Latin name for [[commons:COM:TOL|this insect]]? What date was this photo taken? Which book did this illustration come from? What's the [[commons:Commons:Geocoding|geo-tag]] for the location of this plant? Thanks to the wiki software, if you don't know the species name, someone else can add it in later. Unlike static archives, everything is in a constant state of improvement.<br />
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[[Image:Mayflower Wikimedia Commons image search engine screenshot.png|thumb|A screenshot of Mayflower in action.]]<br />
With such rapid expansion, it's not surprising that sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for. Luckily the Wikimedia Commons community has improvised, and there are several methods to finding high-quality results. The first one is the image search engine '''[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/ Mayflower]''', which is a vast improvement on the default text-based search. Try it and see!<br />
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Two more FYIs are "[[commons:COM:FP|Featured pictures]]" and "[[commons:COM:QI|Quality images]]". These are user-driven processes that recognise top-quality and high-quality images, respectively. Both are linked from the [[commons:Main Page|Main Page]] and offer hundreds, (nope, now it's thousands!) of high quality, well-annotated images.<br />
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If you think this all sounds rather interesting in a distant potentially-useful-one-day kind of way, then you might be interested in our [[commons:COM:POTD|Picture of the Day]]. You can check out one awesome free image each day via the website, [[commons:Commons:Press_releases/Picture_of_the_Day_RSS#How_to_access_the_Picture_of_the_Day|RSS]] or a [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-image-l mailing list]. If, on the other hand, you've already been mentally reviewing which of your photographs would look best on Wikipedia's front page one day, have a gander at our [[commons:COM:FS|First Steps guide]], along with useful tips on [[commons:commons:Contributing your own work|contributing your own work]]. We look forward to [[commons:commons:welcome|welcoming]] you to the community.<br />
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<small><nowiki>*</nowiki> ''There is no official connection between Wikimedia Commons, specifically, and iCommons or Creative Commons. However there are official connections between the Wikimedia Foundation and these groups: overlapping Board members. Jimmy Wales is on the Board of all three: [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation]], [http://creativecommons.org/about/people/ Creative Commons] and [http://icommons.org/static/about/people/ iCommons]. Heather Ford, the Executive Director of iCommons, is also on the Wikimedia Foundation [[Advisory Board]].''</small><br />
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<small>''By [[user:pfctdayelise|Brianna Laugher]], September 2007''</small><br />
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[[Image:Commons-logo-en.svg|200px|right]]<br />
* '''Name:''' Wikimedia Commons<br />
* '''URL:''' http://commons.wikimedia.org/<br />
* '''Licenses used:''' GFDL, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, public domain, Free Art Licence, CeCILL<br />
* '''Translations of the Main Page:''' 70<br />
* '''Date founded:''' September 7, 2004<br />
* '''Number of registered users:''' 191,174<br />
* '''Number of administrators:''' 218 (0.1%)<br />
* '''Number of media files:''' 1,819,667<br />
* '''Database size:''' 953.7 GB<br />
* '''Number of Featured Pictures:''' 945 (0.05%)<br />
* '''Number of pages:''' 2,299,595 (second only to [[w:|English Wikipedia]] among the Wikimedia Foundation projects)<br />
* '''Strangest edit war:''' [[commons:Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|colours of the Italian flag]] (see the talk page)<br />
* '''Confusion about a connection to Creative Commons:''' moderate<br />
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<br />
Welcome to Wikimedia Commons. "Commons" is, unfortunately, a little bit too common these days as far as naming projects go, but bear with us, because this project is anything but common. (And there's no official connection* to [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons], [http://icommons.org/ iCommons], the [http://www.parliament.uk/ House of Commons], or any other "Commons" except the abstract one.)<br />
<br />
Founded just three years ago as a way to avoid uploading the same image to 200 different wikis, Wikimedia Commons began as a central media repository, making life more convenient for Wikimedia editors. Since then it has grown rapidly into a multilingual community of photographers, illustrators, scanners, audio editors, translators, organisers and annotators.<br />
<br />
<div align=center><gallery caption="2006 Picture of the Year winners"><br />
Image:Polarlicht 2.jpg|Picture of the Year: Aurora Borealis, taken by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joshua Strang. Public domain<br />
Image:HomelessParis 7032101.jpg|Second place: ''Sans domicile fixe'' in Paris, taken by [[commons:User:Eric Pouhier|User:Eric Pouhier]]. CC-BY-SA 2.5<br />
Image:Cyanocitta-cristata-004.jpg|Equal third: Blue Jay (''Cyanocitta cristata''), taken by [[commons:User:Mdf|User:Mdf]]. GFDL<br />
Image:Hoverflies mating midair.jpg|Equal third: Hoverflies (''Melangyna viridiceps'') mating in midair, taken by [[commons:User:Fir0002|User:Fir0002]]. GFDL<br />
</gallery></div><br />
<br />
Although the vast majority of files uploaded are JPGs (photographs), the site also [[commons:commons:file types|accepts]] audio and video files (OGG format), scanned images (DJVU) and other graphic formats including PNG and SVG. Video uploads are few, due to limited playback support for the OGG format. Audio uploads are mainly pronunciation files, servicing [[wikt:|Wiktionary]], and [[commons:category:Spoken Wikipedia|spoken Wikipedia]] articles. DJVU files are widely used by [[wikisource:|Wikisource]].<br />
<br />
[[Image:Scheme ant worker anatomy-en.svg|thumb|A stunning diagram of the morphology of a worker ant, created by [[commons:user:LadyofHats|Mariana Ruiz]]. Public domain]]<br />
The uptake of SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphics, has been impressive, with the format now being used for computer icons, detailed diagrams, and even road maps! Around 6% of the total number of files are files in the SVG format. (When the images are used in Wikimedia, the [[mw:|wiki software]] automatically creates PNG thumbnails, for greater accessibility.)<br />
<br />
While comparable in depth and variety to stock photography or clipart archives (or even search engines like Google Images), Wikimedia Commons makes its mark as a project dedicated to only hosting freely-licensed media. Any free-content licence is accepted on the site as long as it allows for certain key freedoms, including commercial use and modification. These conditions are the closest to those of the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License], which is the licence of Wikipedia's text (and most Wikimedia Foundation projects). This means two of the Creative Commons licences are accepted: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution] (CC-BY) and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike] (CC-BY-SA).<br />
<br />
Another feature that distinguishes it from mere archives is the fact that anyone can contribute. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup Registering an account] takes seconds and doesn't even require an email address. From there anyone can instantly upload freely-licensed materials. Wikimedia Commons is not just a collection of "original content" created by Wikimedia editors, but also a kind of "utility filter" on many other media collections on the web, including Flickr and public domain archives.<br />
<br />
Wikimedia Commons' original focus as a convenience for Wikipedia has stood it in good stead. For starters, it acts as a discouragement to people who would upload blurry pictures of their shoelaces taken with a phone-cam. Can you imagine your picture on a specific Wikipedia article that exists today? If not, then it's probably [[commons:Commons:project scope|not suitable]] for Wikimedia Commons.<br />
<br />
Secondly, it acts as an encouragement to the obsessive annotative skills of the Wikipedian and their ilk. Broad, idiosyncratic tags are no good. What's the binomial Latin name for [[commons:COM:TOL|this insect]]? What date was this photo taken? Which book did this illustration come from? What's the [[commons:Commons:Geocoding|geo-tag]] for the location of this plant? Thanks to the wiki software, if you don't know the species name, someone else can add it in later. Unlike static archives, everything is in a constant state of improvement.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Mayflower Wikimedia Commons image search engine screenshot.png|thumb|A screenshot of Mayflower in action.]]<br />
With such rapid expansion, it's not surprising that sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for. Luckily the Wikimedia Commons community has improvised, and there are several methods to finding high-quality results. The first one is the image search engine '''[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/ Mayflower]''', which is a vast improvement on the default text-based search. Try it and see!<br />
<br />
Two more FYIs are "[[commons:COM:FP|Featured pictures]]" and "[[commons:COM:QI|Quality images]]". These are user-driven processes that recognise top-quality and high-quality images, respectively. Both are linked from the [[commons:Main Page|Main Page]] and offer hundreds, (nope, now it's thousands!) of high quality, well-annotated images.<br />
<br />
If you think this all sounds rather interesting in a distant potentially-useful-one-day kind of way, then you might be interested in our [[commons:COM:POTD|Picture of the Day]]. You can check out one awesome free image each day via the website, [[commons:Commons:Press_releases/Picture_of_the_Day_RSS#How_to_access_the_Picture_of_the_Day|RSS]] or a [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-image-l mailing list]. If, on the other hand, you've already been mentally reviewing which of your photographs would look best on Wikipedia's front page one day, have a gander at our [[commons:COM:FS|First Steps guide]], along with useful tips on [[commons:commons:Contributing your own work|contributing your own work]]. We look forward to [[commons:commons:welcome|welcoming]] you to the community.<br />
<br />
<br />
<small><nowiki>*</nowiki> ''There is no official connection between Wikimedia Commons, specifically, and iCommons or Creative Commons. However there are official connections between the Wikimedia Foundation and these groups: overlapping Board members. Jimmy Wales is on the Board of all three: [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation]], [http://creativecommons.org/about/people/ Creative Commons] and [http://icommons.org/static/about/people/ iCommons]. Heather Ford, the Executive Director of iCommons, is also on the Wikimedia Foundation [[Advisory Board]].''</small><br />
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===Why should I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation?===<br />
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The job of the Wikimedia Foundation is to provide easy access to information for people all over the world—free of charge and free of advertising. We are a non-profit that depends on your financial help to do that. Your donations directly support some of the most popular collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's top ten most popular websites and the largest encyclopedia ever compiled in human history. <br />
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===What are your plans? Where is this going?===<br />
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As the organization's founder, Jimmy Wales, put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being an freely share in the sum of all knowledge." That’s where it’s going — and we need your help to get there.<br />
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We're now serving more than 300 million unique visitors every month, providing access to knowledge free of charge and free of advertising. Information from Wikipedia and our other projects is also available on your mobile device, on DVD, and in many other forms. To expand and improve our offerings, we are:<br />
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* making it much easier to contribute knowledge. We've recently launched a large-scale intiative to improve the user experience both for adding text and multimedia. You can find more information on the [//usability.wikimedia.org/ project website].<br />
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* creating learning and training resources to recruit more contributors: teachers, professors, students, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, librarians, archivists, curators, hobbyists, and many others. We're working with a unique and growing network of {{CHAPTER-COUNT}} grass-roots Wikimedia chapter organizations around the world to reach out to these group. More information can be found on the [//outreach.wikimedia.org/ project website].<br />
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* developing unique technologies and processes for quality assurance that do not conflict with Wikimedia's fundamental openness. For the technically interested, this includes technologies for [[:mw:Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs|flagging edits]] and for [[:w:en:Wikipedia:Edit_filter|detecting potentially problematic changes]].<br />
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* consulting with our global community of editors as well as experts, volunteers and thinkers around the world to develop innovative strategies for reaching more people, with higher quality resources, and for increasing the number of volunteers. More information about our five-year strategy project can be found on the [//strategy.wikimedia.org/ project website].<br />
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* building a rich dashboard of metrics to support the work of the Wikimedia movement. See our [http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ monthly report card] and our [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ statistics portal].<br />
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Finally, it is our mission to protect the work that has been done so far: to reduce the risk that disaster or technical failure could eliminate portions of our work, and to ensure that it is regularly copied in many places. We're not an excited start-up company that will fade away in two years -- we're in this for the long term.<br />
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===How do you balance keeping Wikipedia open with making it more reliable?===<br />
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We believe increased participation makes Wikipedia better. At the same time, we must maintain the tough standards that have made Wikipedia respected by scientists, academics, journalists, and foundations. And we believe in transparency to the reader: making it clear at any given time whether the information you're receiving is brand-new and unreviewed, or whether it's been looked at by many trus<br />
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===What is the Wikimedia Foundation?===<br />
The '''Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.''' is the parent organization of various [[Our projects|free-content projects]], most notably [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], the award-winning online encyclopedia. Wikipedia was founded in January 2001 and the Wikimedia Foundation incorporated in June 2003. From the beginning, '''we have existed for one reason: the free and open sharing of knowledge. We don’t sell information and we don’t accept advertising. Your donations make our work possible.''' We bring the educational content from these projects to people in as many forms as possible. In particular, we help disadvantaged communities with limited connectivity to access and contribute free educational content. <br />
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We own more than 400 servers used to run our projects, along with all the associated domain names and trademarks. We support strategic software development on the MediaWiki software and related tools, which allow more people to participate and the existing volunteer community to work more effectively. This includes tools specifically related to ensuring high quality. We develop learning resources, support workshops and strive to think intelligently about other ways to bring in new contributors and to grow Wikimedia as an international movement for free knowledge.<br />
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In all this, we are supported by [[local chapters]] organized in many different countries.<br />
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===Which projects do you support?===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia and one of the 10 most visited websites world-wide. From the founding of Wikipedia in January 2001, and the incorporation of the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2003, our growth has been staggering. The English-language Wikipedia, our first project, has expanded to more than {{EN-WP-COUNT}} articles today. All Wikipedia languages combined contain more than {{ALL-WP-COUNT}} articles.<br />
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Besides Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation also supports:<br />
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:[//commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons], a media repository containing more than {{COMMONS-MEDIA-COUNT}} freely usable images, videos, and sound files<br />
:[//en.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks], a project to create free textbooks<br />
:[//en.wiktionary.org/ Wiktionary], a multilingual dictionary and thesaurus<br />
:[//en.wikisource.org/ Wikisource], a library of source documents<br />
:[//en.wikinews.org/ Wikinews], a citizen news website<br />
:[//en.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversity], an interactive learning platform<br />
:[//en.wikiquote.org/ Wikiquote], a collection of quotations<br />
:[//species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies], a directory of life on Earth<br />
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We lead and support the development of [//mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. We help to organize outreach and community events to encourage people to contribute to our projects, and we provide [//static.wikipedia.org/ downloadble offline copies] and [//download.wikimedia.org/ database archives] of Wikipedia content.<br />
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More information may be found on the page about [[our projects]].<br />
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===How is the Wikimedia Foundation run?===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has a [[staff]] of {{STAFF-COUNT}}, led by the Executive Director, Sue Gardner. The staff<br />
supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ''ad hoc'' basis.<br />
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The [[Board of Trustees]] articulates the mission and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See [[Meetings]] for published Board minutes and [[Resolutions]] for published Board resolutions. The Board is partially elected from the community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The Board is supported by an [[Advisory Board]], chaired by Angela Beesley Starling.<br />
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We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees are working. All board members and remaining staff work remotely.<br />
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We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published [[policies|key policies]] and [[finance report|financial information]].<br />
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===How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded?===<br />
Wikimedia is funded primarily through [[Donate|donations]] by tens of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. Though individual donations are relatively small, their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.<br />
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'''We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.'''<br />
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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. Click [[fundraising | here]] for details on how to make a donation via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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===What is the Omidyar Network?===<br />
[http://www.omidyar.com Omidyar Network] is a philanthropic investment organization founded by Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and his wife Pam. It is dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives.<br />
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Omidyar Network has generously offered to provide up to $500,000 to match individual donations between $100 and $9,999 made during the Wikimedia Foundation's 2009-10 fundraising drive. The funds will help grow Wikimedia's essential base of support at the Community Gifts level. The Wikimedia Foundation depends on hundreds of thousands of individual donations every year both to ensure financial sustainability, as well as continue to grow and achieve a positive, far-reaching social impact through Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.<br />
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The matching funds are part of a grant of up to two million dollars over two years from Omidyar Network to the Wikimedia Foundation in support of its core objectives.<br />
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===How much money are you hoping to raise?===<br />
For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009 and ending June 30, 2010, we have budgeted $9.4 million in expenses, and an annual operating reserve of $1.2 million. We are hoping to raise $10.6 million throughout the fiscal year, and at least $7.5 million through our campaign.<br />
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We hope to raise the remaining revenue through our other fundraising activities throughout the fiscal year (including major gifts and foundation support) and business development (such as licensing the Wikipedia name and logo for commercial uses). More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]].<br />
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===Who else is supporting you in this goal?===<br />
Donors and users like you make up the largest portion of our donations. Some individuals, private foundations, and corporations have generously given major gifts. They can be seen on our [[Donate/Benefactors/en | Benefactors]] page.<br />
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===Where can I learn more about your recent activities?===<br />
For the fiscal year 2007-08, please consult our [[Annual Report]].<br />
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===How do I donate?===<br />
To donate, please visit [[Donate|our fundraising page]]. You can donate using any major credit card (including VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express), PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer, or by sending a cheque to the Foundation. Our donation options support most (although not all) currencies.<br />
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Send checks to:<br />
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Our preference is for checks in U.S. dollars, drawn on U.S. bank accounts. Checks in currencies other than U.S. dollars, or from bank accounts outside the U.S., can be very expensive for us to process, which reduces the value of your gift. If you do not have a U.S. bank account, you can maximize the value of your donation by giving via Paypal or wire transfer.<br />
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Please send all correspondence, including Payroll Deduction applications and Matching Gifts forms, to our secure lockbox address:<br />
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====Can I make a stock donation to the Wikimedia Foundation?====<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation accepts stock donations. You can make a donation by transferring stock from your brokerage to ours by providing your broker with our name, investment account number and DTCC clearing number.<br />
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br />
Smith Barney<br />
Investment a/c number 546-0356C-14-782<br />
DTCC Clearing a/c number #0418 <br />
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Please refer to the [[Deductibility of donations|list of countries]] for the details of tax-deductibility.<br />
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====If I make a donation, how do I get my tax receipt?====<br />
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Anyone who donates by PayPal or credit card will receive an email tax receipt as long as their email address was included with the donation. Donations by check over $50 will receive a tax receipt by mail if a return address for the donation is known. You may also request a tax receipt for your donation by writing us at giving{{@}}wikimedia.org (please include your contact information, the method you used to donate, and the amount of your donation).<br />
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====Can I give you a targeted or restricted donation to be used for something very specific?====<br />
Charities based in the United States, including the Wikimedia Foundation, are required to honor restrictions requested by donors. This means that if you specify your donation needs to be restricted for a specific use, we will either honor your request or return your donation. But before you decide to do that, please consider that unrestricted donations are much more useful for us. Every restriction imposes administrative overhead and planning costs, and increases internal complexity.<br />
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====Why is there a minimum donation?====<br />
While we want everyone to be able to give and contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation, the donation processing has certain fees and processing costs attached. The minimum donation covers those costs and allows the donation to get where the donor wants it most: to supporting free and open global knowledge.<br />
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===What can I do to help you spread the word?===<br />
Spread the word any way you can! Tell your friends and family. Tell them what Wikipedia means to you. Ask them if they use it and if so, what it means to them. Put [[m:Fundraising 2008/web buttons|buttons and banners]] on your blog. Use this text as the signature file on the bottom of your emails: <br />
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<tt> We’ve created the greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate</tt><br />
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===What is your donor privacy policy?===<br />
We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our [[Donate/Donor_Privacy|Donor Privacy Policy]] for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.<br />
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Decisions since 2006 are available at '''[[Resolutions]]'''; policies and charters can be found at [[Policies]]. Financial statements and audit reports may be found at [[Finance report]]. See also [[Messages]] for more information. Some minutes (or parts of the minutes) are confidential and recorded on the [//board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes BoardWiki]. <br />
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== Recent meetings ==<br />
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! colspan="4" style="background:#F9F9F9; border:1px solid #AAA;" | <h3 style="padding:0; margin:0;">2014</h3><br />
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| November 21 || [[Minutes/2014-11-21|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q2 meeting || San Francisco<br />
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| October 24 || [[Minutes/2014-10-24|Minutes]] || Special meeting || Voice call<br />
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| August 6-7 || [[Minutes/2014-08-06|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q1 meeting || London ([[wm2014:|Wikimania 2014]])<br />
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| April 25 || [[Minutes/2014-04-25|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q4 meeting || San Francisco<br />
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| January 31 - February 1 || [[Minutes/2014-01-31|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q3 meeting || San Francisco<br />
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! colspan="4" style="background:#F9F9F9; border:1px solid #AAA;" | <h3 style="padding:0; margin:0;">2013</h3><br />
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| November 24-25 || [[Minutes/2013-11-24|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q2 meeting|| San Francisco<br />
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| August 7-8 || [[Minutes/2013-08-07|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q1 meeting|| Hong Kong ([[wm2013:|Wikimania 2013]])<br />
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| May 4 || [[Minutes/2013-05-04|Minutes]] || Special meeting || Voice call<br />
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| April 18-19 || [[Minutes/2013-04-18|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q4 meeting || Milan, Italy<br />
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| February 1-2 || [[Minutes/2013-02-01|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q3 meeting || San Francisco, CA<br />
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! colspan="4" style="background:#F9F9F9; border:1px solid #AAA;" | <h3 style="padding:0; margin:0;">2012</h3><br />
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| December 27 || [[Minutes/2012-12-27|Minutes]] || Special meeting || Voice call<br />
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| December 1 || [[Minutes/2012-12-01|Minutes]] || Fall 2012 FDC recommendations || IRC<br />
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| October 26-27 || [[Minutes/2012-10-26|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q2 meeting || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| July 11 || [[Minutes/2012-07-11|Minutes]] || Scheduled Q1 meeting || Washington, DC ([[wm2012:|Wikimania 2012]])<br />
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| June 6 || [[Minutes/2012-06-06|Minutes]] || Annual plan review (2) || IRC<br />
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| May 7 || [[Minutes/2012-05-07|Minutes]] || Annual plan review (1) || IRC<br />
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| March 30-31 || [[Minutes/2012-03-30|Minutes]] || Q4 meeting || [[m:Wikimedia Conference 2012|Berlin, Germany]]<br />
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| March 21 || [[Minutes/2012-03-21|Minutes]] || Fundraising and Funds Dissemination discussion || IRC<br />
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| February 3-4 || [[Minutes/2012-02-03|Minutes]] || Q3 meeting || San Francisco, CA<br />
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! colspan="4" style="background:#F9F9F9; border:1px solid #AAA;" | <h3 style="padding:0; margin:0;">2011</h3><br />
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| November 6 || [[Minutes/2011-11-06|Minutes]] || Movement roles discussion || IRC<br />
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| October 7–8 || [[Minutes/2011-10-07|Minutes]] || Q2 meeting || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| August 28 || [[Minutes/2011-08-28|Minutes]] || Fundraising discussion || IRC<br />
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| August 3 || [[Minutes/2011-08-03|Minutes]] || Q1 meeting || Haifa, Israel<br />
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| June 20 || [[Minutes/2011-06-20|Minutes]] || Annual Plan review || IRC<br />
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| May 11 || [[Minutes/2011-05-11|Minutes]] || Annual Plan preview || IRC<br />
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| April 8 || [[Minutes/2011-04-08|Minutes]] || Openness & participation || IRC<br />
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| March 25–26 || [[Minutes/2011-03-25|Minutes]] || Q4 meeting || [[m:Chapters Meeting 2011|Berlin, Germany]]<br />
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| February 22 || [[Minutes/2011-02-22|Minutes]] || Q3 meeting || IRC<ref>starting July 2010, we began scheduling at least one regular IRC meeting between each pair of physical meetings, and experimented with just 3 physical meetings in 2010-2011</ref><br />
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| October 8–9 || [[Minutes/October 8-9, 2010|Minutes]] || Q2 meeting || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| August 31 || [[Minutes/August 31, 2010|Minutes]] || Strategy and Targets || IRC<br />
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| July 7-8 || [[Minutes/July 8, 2010|Minutes]] || Wikimania || Gdansk, Poland<br />
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| June 18 || [[Minutes/June 18, 2010|Minutes]] || Annual plan || IRC<br />
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| May 18 || [[Minutes/May 18, 2010|Minutes]] || Makeup for short Q4 meeting || IRC<br />
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| April 17 || [[Minutes/April 17, 2010|Minutes]] || Q4 meeting, [[w:Eyjafjallajökull|cut short]] || [[m:Chapters Meeting 2010|Berlin, Germany]]<br />
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| February 5–6 || [[Minutes/February 5-6, 2010|Minutes]] || Q3 meeting || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| November 13–15 || [[Minutes/November 13-15, 2009|Minutes]] || Q2 meeting || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| October 28 || [[Minutes/October 28, 2009|Minutes]] || || IRC<br />
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| August 24–25 || [[Minutes/August 24-25, 2009|Minutes]] || Wikimania || Buenos Aires, Argentina<br />
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| June 16 || [[Minutes/June 16, 2009|Minutes]] || || IRC<br />
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| April 3–5 || [[Minutes/April 3-5, 2009|Minutes]] || Wikimedia meeting || Berlin, Germany<br />
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| January 9–11 || [[Minutes/January 9-11, 2009|Minutes]] || || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| November 3 || [[Minutes/November 3, 2008|Minutes]] || || IRC<br />
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| October 3–5 || [[Minutes/October 3-5, 2008|Minutes]] || || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| July 16–17 || [[Minutes/July 16-17,_2008|Minutes]] || Wikimania || Alexandria, Egypt<br />
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| April 5–7 || [[Minutes/April 5-7, 2008|Minutes]] || || San Francisco, CA<br />
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| March 1 || [[Minutes/March 1, 2008|Minutes]] || || IRC <br />
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! colspan="4" style="background:#F9F9F9; border:1px solid #AAA;" | <h3 style="padding:0; margin:0;">2007</h3><br />
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| December 11 || [[Minutes/December 11, 2007|Minutes]] || || IRC<br />
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| October 6–7 || [[Minutes/October 6-7, 2007|Minutes]] || [[Meetings/October 6-7, 2007|Board meeting]] || St. Petersburg, FL<br />
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== 2004–2007 ==<br />
''A mix of meeting notes, agendas, and summary minutes''<br />
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=== 2007 ===<br />
# very short board meeting during Wikimania, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2007 (no notes)<br />
# [[advisory:Meeting August 2007/Notes|Advisory board meeting]], Taipei, Taiwan, August 2007<br />
# [[Meetings/June 1-3, 2007|Board meeting]], Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2007 (summary only)<br />
# [[Meetings/March 2007|Board meeting]], Tampa, Florida, March 2007 (summary only)<br />
# [[Meetings/Jan, 2007|Board Meeting]], Rotterdam, Netherlands, January 2007 (summary only)<br />
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=== 2006 ===<br />
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# [[Meetings/Florida, November 2006|Board Meeting]], November, 2006, St. Petersburg, Florida<br />
# Board Meeting, October, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany (general summary only, by mail [[mailarchive:foundation-l/2006-October/024615.html|Election of board officers]], [[mailarchive:foundation-l/2006-October/024619.html|Statement of new chair]])<br />
# [[:m:Board_retreat|Board Retreat]], October 2006, Frankfurt, Germany ([[mailarchive:foundation-l/2006-November/024825.html|Outcome]])<br />
# Board Meeting at Wikimania August 2006, Cambridge, MA (no notes)<br />
#* Board Panel Discussion at Wikimania, a practice continued in future years <br />
# Board meeting, January 14-15, 2006, St. Petersburg, Florida (no notes? resulting notes were sent by email about Committees and other structural ideas)<br />
# Two unofficial [[m:Wikimedia meetings#open meetings|open meetings]] were also held in early January, a practice resumed in 2009.<br />
<br />
*Note: Following the 2006 Board Retreat, the Executive Director and Chair started a weekly IRC meeting attended by most/all Board members, that ran from November through March of 2007. It also recorded minutes.<br />
<br />
=== 2005 ===<br />
<br />
''Please note that meetings listed here were not necessarily official "Board meetings", but simply meetings attending by several members of the Board. ''<br />
<br />
# [[Meetings/November 13, 2005|Board meeting]], November 13, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/October 1, 2005|Budget meeting]], October 1, 2005<br />
# Board meeting with officers and chapters. September 18, 2005 (no summary?) <br />
# [[m:Fundraising_meeting%2C_September_2005|Fundraising meeting: What lessons did we learn?]] September 17, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/August 27, 2005|Open meeting]], IRC, August 27, 2005 ([[m:Open Board meeting, August 2005|full transcript]])<br />
# [[Meetings/August 18, 2005|Chapters]], August 18, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/August 14, 2005|Q3 finances]], August 14, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/June 9, 2005|Second meeting in June]], June 9, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/June 7, 2005|Bylaws meeting]], June 7, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/May 24, 2005|Second meeting in May]], May 24, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/May 16, 2005|First meeting in May]], May 16, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/March 30, 2005|Short meeting]], March 30, 2005<br />
# [[Meetings/February 15, 2005|Open Board meeting]], IRC, February 15, 2005 ([[m:Open Board meeting, February 2005|full transcript]])<br />
# [[Meetings/February 7, 2005|Finance]], February 7, 2005<br />
<br />
=== 2004 ===<br />
<br />
''Please note that meetings listed here were not necessarily official "Board meetings", but simply meetings attending by several members of the Board. ''<br />
<br />
# [[Meetings/November 6, 2004|Open Board meeting]], IRC, November 6 2004 ([[m:Open Board meeting, November 2004|full transcript]])<br />
# [[Meetings/October 22, 2004|Membership]], October 22, 2004<br />
# [[Meetings/October 16, 2004|General Board meeting]], October 16, 2004<br />
# [[Meetings/October 9, 2004|General Board meeting]], October 9, 2004<br />
# [[Meetings/September 17, 2004|Fundraising and grants]], IRC, September 17, 2004 ([[m:Fundraising_meeting%2C_September_2004/Log|Full transcript]])<br />
# [[Meetings/September 5, 2004|Wikispecies]], IRC, September 5, 2004<br />
# [[Meetings/July 24, 2004|Foundation website]], July 24, 2004 ([[m:Foundation_website_meeting%2C_July_2004|summary and other links]])<br />
# [[Meetings/July 4, 2004|Initial meeting in Paris]], July 4, 2004<br />
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== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Meetings|{{PAGENAME}}]]<br />
[[Category:Board of Trustees]]</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Benefactors/2014-2015&diff=100655Archive:Benefactors/2014-20152014-12-27T11:37:38Z<p>Az1568: Redirected page to Benefactors</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Benefactors]]</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Az1568&diff=100255User:Az15682014-11-15T08:03:23Z<p>Az1568: Heh.</p>
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<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:4px; border:1px solid navy; background:#4682B4; color:#fff; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; -moz-border-radius:0.2em;"><span style="text-align:center">Az1568</span></h2><br />
{| align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="10px"<br />
|- <br />
| valign="top" | Hi, I'm Az1568, a Wikimedian since 2006.<br />
<br />
Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]], where I'm an administrator. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent and as a [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]].<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
<br />
*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* AIM: az1658<br />
* Google Talk: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* IRC: AlexZ_ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
* ICQ: 442931924<br />
* Skype: Az1658<br />
<br />
==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
:''...''<br />
<br />
===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
*[[m:Special:CentralNotice|Central notice admin]]<br />
*[[m:Special:Watchlist|Meta watchlist]]<br />
|}<br />
|}<br />
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__NOEDITSECTION__</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Az1568&diff=99183User:Az15682014-09-01T09:14:38Z<p>Az1568: </p>
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{| align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="10px"<br />
|- <br />
| valign="top" | Hi, I'm Az1568, a Wikimedian since 2006.<br />
<br />
Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]], where I'm an administrator. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent and as a [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]].<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
<br />
*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* AIM: az1658<br />
* Google Talk: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* IRC: AlexZ_ <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
* ICQ: 442931924<br />
* Skype: Az1658<br />
<br />
==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
:''Fundraising 2011''<br />
<br />
===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
*[[m:Special:CentralNotice|Central notice admin]]<br />
*[[m:Special:Watchlist|Meta watchlist]]<br />
|}<br />
|}<br />
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__NOEDITSECTION__</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fundraiser_Volunteer&diff=94195Fundraiser Volunteer2013-11-03T03:57:51Z<p>Az1568: cats</p>
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<div>{{Job opening status|Open}}<br />
=== Background Information and Statement of Purpose ===<br />
<br />
You will volunteer with a team of people like yourself, who care about supporting one of the more remarkable free-knowledge projects in the world. You will help the Development team, support the diverse international community that builds Wikipedia, make the world a better place, and have fun while doing it!<br />
<br />
In November and December we are doing our annual Fundraiser. We need help getting thank-you letters to our donors in the mail. The thank-you letters will need to be put inside an envelope and sealed. They will then need to be stamped, labeled and taken to the mailbox. We will also need additional support to update donor contact information in our database, and organize and archive office files.<br />
<br />
=== Scope of volunteer tasks === <br />
<br />
Stuff, seal, stamp, and label envelopes - for example, put one invitation and one remit envelope into a larger envelope, then seal and stamp it.<br />
Update donor contact information in CiviCRM<br />
Folder sorting and archiving<br />
<br />
=== Desired Qualifications === <br />
<br />
* Availability to volunteer at our San Francisco office<br />
* Experience stuffing envelopes<br />
* Data entry experience<br />
* Folder organization<br />
<br />
These volunteer tasks are unpaid and located in our San Francisco offices. <br />
<br />
Hours depend on your availability, but are flexible within Wikimedia’s general workday. If you’re interested in volunteering, please provide a letter stating your interest and availability, add a resume, and email this to volunteering{{@}}wikimedia.org. Please note in the email title the volunteer assignment that you are requesting.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Job Descriptions|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]<br />
[[Category:English]]</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fundraiser_Volunteer&diff=94194Fundraiser Volunteer2013-11-03T03:56:32Z<p>Az1568: fixes</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Job opening status|Open}}<br />
=== Background Information and Statement of Purpose ===<br />
<br />
You will volunteer with a team of people like yourself, who care about supporting one of the more remarkable free-knowledge projects in the world. You will help the Development team, support the diverse international community that builds Wikipedia, make the world a better place, and have fun while doing it!<br />
<br />
In November and December we are doing our annual Fundraiser. We need help getting thank-you letters to our donors in the mail. The thank-you letters will need to be put inside an envelope and sealed. They will then need to be stamped, labeled and taken to the mailbox. We will also need additional support to update donor contact information in our database, and organize and archive office files.<br />
<br />
=== Scope of volunteer tasks === <br />
<br />
Stuff, seal, stamp, and label envelopes - for example, put one invitation and one remit envelope into a larger envelope, then seal and stamp it.<br />
Update donor contact information in CiviCRM<br />
Folder sorting and archiving<br />
<br />
=== Desired Qualifications === <br />
<br />
* Availability to volunteer at our San Francisco office<br />
* Experience stuffing envelopes<br />
* Data entry experience<br />
* Folder organization<br />
<br />
These volunteer tasks are unpaid and located in our San Francisco offices. <br />
<br />
Hours depend on your availability, but are flexible within Wikimedia’s general workday. If you’re interested in volunteering, please provide a letter stating your interest and availability, add a resume, and email this to volunteering{{@}}wikimedia.org. Please note in the email title the volunteer assignment that you are requesting.</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Az1568&diff=92105User talk:Az15682013-05-23T20:51:18Z<p>Az1568: /* alexzariv.com */ re</p>
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<div><div class="mw-tpl-welcome plainlinks"><br />
<h2><span style="float: right; font-size: 50%;">[{{fullurl:Template:Welcome|action=edit}} edit this template]</span> Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki</h2><br />
<br />
'''Thanks for being here!''' This wiki does not exactly follow the same rules as the other Wikimedia projects, since it is ''not open to all'' for editing, and in case of disagreement, the organ of decision will be the Board. A rule of thumb however is that if we gave you access, that means ''we trust you''. So please, do not be shy in editing this site. There is ample work for everyone :-) <br />
* Please create [[Special:Mypage|your userpage]] with a short biography and other introductory information about yourself and the work you do. You may want to use the {{tl|user info}} template. Feel free to look at [[Special:ListUsers|other user pages]] for examples.<br />
* All organizational pages may be found in the [[:Category:Foundation wiki|special category]].<br />
* For those willing to help with translation, please see [[m:Translation requests]], and in particular the Foundation subpage [[m:Translation requests/WMF|/WMF]].<br />
* Please watch for feedback on [[m:Foundation wiki feedback|Meta-Wiki]] and start discussions there.<br />
* [[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
</div> '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 17:27, 10 July 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Gift policy ==<br />
<br />
Hi! Please check [[Gift policy]] text: not very correctly, that there are two different sections named [[Gift policy#Restricted gifts|Restricted gifts]] and [[Gift policy#Restricted Gifts|Restricted Gifts]]. --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 18:06, 1 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Oops. I'm not sure how that happened.. but fixed. :-) --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 19:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next misstypes ==<br />
<br />
Hi! Please fix misstypes in following system messages (new text present):<br />
* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/ru]]<br />
*:<pre>Более ранние пожертвования</pre><br />
* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/uk]]<br />
*:<pre>Более ранние пожертвования</pre><br />
Thanks. --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 11:43, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Done. <tt>:-)</tt> --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 20:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Thanks - and also tfo fix, please (from user:Ahonc):<br />
:* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/uk]]<br />
:*:<pre>Більш ранні пожертвування</pre><br />
:* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-previous/uk ]]<br />
:*:<pre>Більш пізні пожертвування</pre><br />
:--[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 21:04, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Done as well. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 21:57, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
[[bugzilla:21469]] --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] 21:58, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:<tt>:o</tt> --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 22:22, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:: Good idea! +1 vote ;) --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 23:36, 13 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Now resolved FIXED. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] 20:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== lowercase, not Lowercase ==<br />
<br />
Hi Az (or Cbrown - whichever sees this first), I made this change [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:2009/Donate-header/nb&curid=9534&diff=42373&oldid=42100] because uppercase first Letter is really not Norwegian. In the original at meta[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2009/core_messages/nb] these are written as all UPPERCASE, when lowercasing them only the first letter of proper nouns should have capital first letter. I can fix the rest of the Norwegian messages, but then I need some guidance to where I can find them around here (or where to fix it at Meta if that's preferred). Best regards, [[User:Finnrind|Finn Rindahl]] 10:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:They should just be on Support Wikipedia/nb and its related templates. If you notice it in a sitenotice, just poke me and I can fix it. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 20:47, 14 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Should be sorted now, both here and Meta (I have been nagging at Casey and a few others ;) ) [[User:Finnrind|Finn Rindahl]] 22:01, 14 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
Just a quick thank you for cleaning up the Pending Changes Q&A! :) <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Mokapantages|Mokapantages]] ([[User talk:Mokapantages|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Mokapantages|contribs]]) </small><!-- Template:Unsigned --><br />
:No problem. :-) [[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 04:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Proposed deletions ==<br />
<br />
Hi. I'm working on cleaning up this wiki a bit. I've proposed the following pages for deletion. I'm notifying you as you're listed in the page history. Without objection, the pages listed below will be deleted in about a month. Thanks for all of your work here. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 02:13, 18 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
* [[Template:2008/Donate-now-chaptertest]]<br />
::I always thought we outright deleted these unused test pages with extreme prejudice? Well anyways I'm fine with it, good job cleaning up MZ. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] ([[User talk:Az1568#top|talk]]) 03:15, 18 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[2007/Donate-options/hu]]<br />
* [[2007/Donate-options/cy]]<br />
* [[2007/Donate-options/fi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/af]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ar]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ast]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/br]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/bs]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ca]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/cs]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/cy]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/da]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/de]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/dsb]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/el]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/en]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/eo]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/es]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/et]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fa]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fy]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ga]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/gl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/he]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hsb]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hu]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/id]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/it]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ja]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/jv]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/km]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ko]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/lt]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ml]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/mr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ms]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nb]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nds-nl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nn]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/oc]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/pl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/pt]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/pt-br]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ro]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ru]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sk]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/su]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sv]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/th]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/tr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/uk]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ur]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/vi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/yue]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/zh-hans]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/zh-hant]]<br />
::I don't really care if these are deleted, all these pages are _extremely_ old and honestly have been ignored for a very long time. The special page they go to does not even exist anymore. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] ([[User talk:Az1568#top|talk]]) 22:35, 24 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== alexzariv.com ==<br />
<br />
Hi. <http://blog.alexzariv.com/> and <http://wiki.alexzariv.com/> aren't loading for me (I get a completely white screen). I found them via <http://alexzariv.com/> and thought you might not be aware that they are broken. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 22:03, 21 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Oh yeah. Thanks Max! I forgot to migrate that stuff over when I moved servers about a year ago... It's just pointing to a blank placeholder page at the moment. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] ([[User talk:Az1568#top|talk]]) 20:51, 23 May 2013 (UTC)</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Az1568&diff=90215User talk:Az15682013-03-24T22:35:59Z<p>Az1568: /* Proposed deletions */</p>
<hr />
<div><div class="mw-tpl-welcome plainlinks"><br />
<h2><span style="float: right; font-size: 50%;">[{{fullurl:Template:Welcome|action=edit}} edit this template]</span> Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki</h2><br />
<br />
'''Thanks for being here!''' This wiki does not exactly follow the same rules as the other Wikimedia projects, since it is ''not open to all'' for editing, and in case of disagreement, the organ of decision will be the Board. A rule of thumb however is that if we gave you access, that means ''we trust you''. So please, do not be shy in editing this site. There is ample work for everyone :-) <br />
* Please create [[Special:Mypage|your userpage]] with a short biography and other introductory information about yourself and the work you do. You may want to use the {{tl|user info}} template. Feel free to look at [[Special:ListUsers|other user pages]] for examples.<br />
* All organizational pages may be found in the [[:Category:Foundation wiki|special category]].<br />
* For those willing to help with translation, please see [[m:Translation requests]], and in particular the Foundation subpage [[m:Translation requests/WMF|/WMF]].<br />
* Please watch for feedback on [[m:Foundation wiki feedback|Meta-Wiki]] and start discussions there.<br />
* [[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
</div> '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 17:27, 10 July 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Gift policy ==<br />
<br />
Hi! Please check [[Gift policy]] text: not very correctly, that there are two different sections named [[Gift policy#Restricted gifts|Restricted gifts]] and [[Gift policy#Restricted Gifts|Restricted Gifts]]. --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 18:06, 1 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Oops. I'm not sure how that happened.. but fixed. :-) --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 19:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next misstypes ==<br />
<br />
Hi! Please fix misstypes in following system messages (new text present):<br />
* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/ru]]<br />
*:<pre>Более ранние пожертвования</pre><br />
* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/uk]]<br />
*:<pre>Более ранние пожертвования</pre><br />
Thanks. --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 11:43, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Done. <tt>:-)</tt> --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 20:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Thanks - and also tfo fix, please (from user:Ahonc):<br />
:* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/uk]]<br />
:*:<pre>Більш ранні пожертвування</pre><br />
:* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-previous/uk ]]<br />
:*:<pre>Більш пізні пожертвування</pre><br />
:--[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 21:04, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Done as well. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 21:57, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
[[bugzilla:21469]] --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] 21:58, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:<tt>:o</tt> --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 22:22, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:: Good idea! +1 vote ;) --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 23:36, 13 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Now resolved FIXED. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] 20:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== lowercase, not Lowercase ==<br />
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Hi Az (or Cbrown - whichever sees this first), I made this change [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:2009/Donate-header/nb&curid=9534&diff=42373&oldid=42100] because uppercase first Letter is really not Norwegian. In the original at meta[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2009/core_messages/nb] these are written as all UPPERCASE, when lowercasing them only the first letter of proper nouns should have capital first letter. I can fix the rest of the Norwegian messages, but then I need some guidance to where I can find them around here (or where to fix it at Meta if that's preferred). Best regards, [[User:Finnrind|Finn Rindahl]] 10:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:They should just be on Support Wikipedia/nb and its related templates. If you notice it in a sitenotice, just poke me and I can fix it. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 20:47, 14 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Should be sorted now, both here and Meta (I have been nagging at Casey and a few others ;) ) [[User:Finnrind|Finn Rindahl]] 22:01, 14 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Just a quick thank you for cleaning up the Pending Changes Q&A! :) <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Mokapantages|Mokapantages]] ([[User talk:Mokapantages|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Mokapantages|contribs]]) </small><!-- Template:Unsigned --><br />
:No problem. :-) [[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 04:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Proposed deletions ==<br />
<br />
Hi. I'm working on cleaning up this wiki a bit. I've proposed the following pages for deletion. I'm notifying you as you're listed in the page history. Without objection, the pages listed below will be deleted in about a month. Thanks for all of your work here. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 02:13, 18 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
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* [[Template:2008/Donate-now-chaptertest]]<br />
::I always thought we outright deleted these unused test pages with extreme prejudice? Well anyways I'm fine with it, good job cleaning up MZ. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] ([[User talk:Az1568#top|talk]]) 03:15, 18 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[2007/Donate-options/hu]]<br />
* [[2007/Donate-options/cy]]<br />
* [[2007/Donate-options/fi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/af]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ar]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ast]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/br]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/bs]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ca]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/cs]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/cy]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/da]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/de]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/dsb]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/el]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/en]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/eo]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/es]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/et]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fa]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/fy]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ga]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/gl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/he]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hsb]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/hu]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/id]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/it]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ja]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/jv]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/km]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ko]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/lt]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ml]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/mr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ms]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nb]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nds-nl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/nn]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/oc]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/pl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/pt]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/pt-br]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ro]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ru]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sk]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sl]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/su]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/sv]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/th]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/tr]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/uk]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/ur]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/vi]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/yue]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/zh-hans]]<br />
* [[:Template:2008/Contribution history introduction/zh-hant]]<br />
::I don't really care if these are deleted, all these pages are _extremely_ old and honestly have been ignored for a very long time. The special page they go to does not even exist anymore. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] ([[User talk:Az1568#top|talk]]) 22:35, 24 March 2013 (UTC)</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Az1568&diff=88804User talk:Az15682013-03-18T03:15:33Z<p>Az1568: /* Proposed deletions */ re</p>
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</div> '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 17:27, 10 July 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Gift policy ==<br />
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Hi! Please check [[Gift policy]] text: not very correctly, that there are two different sections named [[Gift policy#Restricted gifts|Restricted gifts]] and [[Gift policy#Restricted Gifts|Restricted Gifts]]. --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 18:06, 1 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Oops. I'm not sure how that happened.. but fixed. :-) --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 19:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next misstypes ==<br />
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Hi! Please fix misstypes in following system messages (new text present):<br />
* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/ru]]<br />
*:<pre>Более ранние пожертвования</pre><br />
* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/uk]]<br />
*:<pre>Более ранние пожертвования</pre><br />
Thanks. --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 11:43, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Done. <tt>:-)</tt> --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 20:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Thanks - and also tfo fix, please (from user:Ahonc):<br />
:* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-next/uk]]<br />
:*:<pre>Більш ранні пожертвування</pre><br />
:* in [[MediaWiki:Contrib-hist-previous/uk ]]<br />
:*:<pre>Більш пізні пожертвування</pre><br />
:--[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 21:04, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Done as well. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 21:57, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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[[bugzilla:21469]] --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] 21:58, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:<tt>:o</tt> --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 22:22, 10 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:: Good idea! +1 vote ;) --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 23:36, 13 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Now resolved FIXED. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] 20:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== lowercase, not Lowercase ==<br />
<br />
Hi Az (or Cbrown - whichever sees this first), I made this change [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:2009/Donate-header/nb&curid=9534&diff=42373&oldid=42100] because uppercase first Letter is really not Norwegian. In the original at meta[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2009/core_messages/nb] these are written as all UPPERCASE, when lowercasing them only the first letter of proper nouns should have capital first letter. I can fix the rest of the Norwegian messages, but then I need some guidance to where I can find them around here (or where to fix it at Meta if that's preferred). Best regards, [[User:Finnrind|Finn Rindahl]] 10:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
:They should just be on Support Wikipedia/nb and its related templates. If you notice it in a sitenotice, just poke me and I can fix it. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 20:47, 14 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Should be sorted now, both here and Meta (I have been nagging at Casey and a few others ;) ) [[User:Finnrind|Finn Rindahl]] 22:01, 14 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
Just a quick thank you for cleaning up the Pending Changes Q&A! :) <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Mokapantages|Mokapantages]] ([[User talk:Mokapantages|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Mokapantages|contribs]]) </small><!-- Template:Unsigned --><br />
:No problem. :-) [[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 04:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Proposed deletions ==<br />
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Hi. I'm working on cleaning up this wiki a bit. I've proposed the following pages for deletion. I'm notifying you as you're listed in the page history. Without objection, the pages listed below will be deleted in about a month. Thanks for all of your work here. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 02:13, 18 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
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* [[Template:2008/Donate-now-chaptertest]]<br />
::I always thought we outright deleted these unused test pages with extreme prejudice? Well anyways I'm fine with it, good job cleaning up MZ. --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] ([[User talk:Az1568#top|talk]]) 03:15, 18 March 2013 (UTC)</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings/Site_Performance_Engineer_and_Senior_Technical_Advisor&diff=87196Job openings/Site Performance Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor2013-01-13T21:51:13Z<p>Az1568: Categorize</p>
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Site Performance Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor<br />
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'''REPORTS TO'''<br />
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VP of Engineering<br />
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'''JOB PURPOSE'''<br />
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* Organize and implement systematic improvements to Wikimedia site infrastructure to improve site performance for readers and editors;<br />
* Support engineering management in coordination of architectural reviews, technical assessments, outreach to potential partners and vendors, hiring, and other priorities.<br />
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'''JOB SUMMARY'''<br />
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Duties include, but are not limited to the following:<br />
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* Acute investigation and problem solving in case of unexpected performance problems<br />
* Improvements to site architecture, infrastructure and graphing/profiling/monitoring tools that improve site performance characteristics and developer awareness<br />
* Education and onboarding of teams and individuals about profiling strategies, architectural improvements, and other engineering practices<br />
* Coordination of technical and architectural reviews to ensure cross-team communication occurs at important points in the development cycle<br />
* Support the hiring process with technical evaluation of candidates<br />
* Other responsibilities as assigned<br />
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'''REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS'''<br />
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* Deep knowledge of the systems internals of web development stacks, dev-ops technologies, deployment tools, virtualization<br />
* Deep knowledge of system architectures, including caching effects, concurrency control, I/O strategies, etc.<br />
* Experience with debugging running processes, using tools such as gdb, strace, oprofile, xdebug, etc.<br />
* Strong knowledge of and experience with the C programming language<br />
* You must be comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment<br />
* You are able to work independently where needed, and can work remotely as part of a globally distributed team<br />
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[[Category:Job Descriptions|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]<br />
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Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]], where I'm an administrator. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent and as a [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
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*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
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==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* AIM: az1658<br />
* Google Talk: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* IRC: Az1568 <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
* ICQ: 442931924<br />
* Skype: Az1658<br />
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==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
:''Fundraising 2011''<br />
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===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
*[[m:Special:CentralNotice|Central notice admin]]<br />
*[[m:Special:Watchlist|Meta watchlist]]<br />
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Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]], where I'm an administrator. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent and as a [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
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*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
<br />
==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com / azariv{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
* AIM: az1658<br />
* Google Talk: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
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* ICQ: 442931924<br />
* Skype: Az1658<html><br />
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==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
:''Fundraising 2011''<br />
<br />
===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
*[[m:Special:CentralNotice|Central notice admin]]<br />
*[[m:Special:Watchlist|Meta watchlist]]<br />
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<div>=== Background Information and Statement of Purpose ===<br />
The [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia Foundation] (WMF) is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content free], multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki]-based projects to the public free of charge. The Foundation operates some of the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world], including [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], a top-ten internet property.<br />
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Supported by an annual giving campaign that runs from November to January, the WMF raises most of the funds to cover program, operating and administrative costs throughout the year during this short period of time. Most of the donations during this campaign are made online, but a growing number are sent via check. From November 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010 the WMF received 2,780 checks. During that same period the following year, 6,680 checks were received -- almost 3 times the amount as the previous year. In addition to recording and processing all checks, acknowledgement letters are sent to donors that give $50 or more.<br />
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The WMF is looking for an organization to help support the growing number of offline donations that are received from donors in the United States and abroad. Timely deposit and processing of these checks would be key, as well as entering all relevant donor information into a transmission file for WMF staff to import into our donor database. Additionally the WMF hopes that this organization will be able to provide processing of all acknowledgement letters below $500.<br />
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=== Scope of Work ===<br />
Duties include, but are not limited to the following:<br />
* Engage with the WMF during conversion period to outline business rules and best practices to provide clean data, customized reporting, and caging of checks. Include comprehensive “exception” list for high dollar donors, donors of interest, and foundations.<br />
* Provide lock box services.<br />
* Timely deposit of all checks and cash sent to lock box, including all foreign currencies.<br />
* Provide ability to view full check and remittance information on a daily basis.<br />
* Appropriate handling of all remittance materials including matching gift forms, letters, cards, etc.<br />
* Entry of information from donor checks/remittance based on business rules established during conversion period.<br />
* Transmission file of donor and check information available to WMF for import into CiviCRM, our donor database.<br />
* Weekly processing of donor acknowledgement letters.<br />
* Communication on a regular and recurring basis with key WMF staff.<br />
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=== Preference given to organizations that: ===<br />
* demonstrate an understanding of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement<br />
* can handle the processing of foreign currencies (as allowable by US law)<br />
* cage/process checks as well as produce acknowledgement letters<br />
* adhere to all WMF privacy policies: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donor_Privacy_Policy<br />
* are licensed and bonded<br />
<br />
=== Point of contact for future correspondence ===<br />
Joshua VanDavier, Development Associate <br /><br />
rfp{{@}}wikimedia.org 415-839-6885 ext. 6730<br />
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=== Further Background === <br />
Ways to Give Information<br />
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en<br />
<br />
Frequently Asked Questions<br />
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions<br />
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2009-2010 Annual Report<br />
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/AR_web_all-spreads_24mar11_72_FINAL.pdf<br />
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2010 Fundraiser<br />
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010<br />
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Wikimedia Blog<br />
http://blog.wikimedia.org/<br />
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Todos los proyectos principales de la [[Acerca de Wikimedia|Fundación Wikimedia]] son desarrollados colaborativamente por sus usuarios a través del software [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]. El contenido es libre y se encuentra disponible bajo la [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Atribución-Licenciamiento Recíproco 3.0 Creative Commons] (excepto Wikinoticias, con el tipo de licencia [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Atribución 2.5 Creative Commons]), lo cual singifica que su contenido puede usarse, modificarse, copiarse y redistribuirse libremente bajo las condiciones de tal licencia. Vea también nuestro [[Special:SiteMatrix|vínculo a todos los proyectos]].<br />
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'''Por favor note que aunque otros sitios también pueden usar el software [[MediaWiki]] y por lo tanto parecerse a nuestros proyectos, o pueden tener un nombre que incluye 'Wiki-' o '-pedia' o un nombre de dominio similar, los únicos proyectos que son parte de la Fundación Wikimedia son los abajo enumerados.'''<br />
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== Wikipedia ==<br />
[[Image:Wikipedia.png|right|150px]]<br />
Wikipedia es un proyecto para construir enciclopedias gratuitas en todos los idiomas del mundo. Virtualmente cualquier persona con un acceso a Internet puede contribuir, al contribuir información neutral y citada.<br />
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Wikipedia inició en enero del 2001 y actualmente ofrece más de diez millones de artículos en 250 idiomas. La Wikipedia más grande está en Inglés con más de tres millones de artículos, es seguida por las ediciones en Alemán, Francés, Polaco e Italiano, cada una de las cuales contiene más de medio millón de artículos; veintitrés ediciones en otros lenguajes contienen más de 100,000 artículos, y más de otros 100 lenguajes contienen más de 1,000 artículos.<br />
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Wikipedia también es conocida por su comunidad; en 2004 ganó el Premio Webby por "Comunidad" y el Prix Ars Electronica's Golden Nica por "Comunidades Digitales". Desde el inicio del proyecto, más de 650,000 usuarios registrados han hecho al menos diez modificaciones. El número total de cuentas creadas para la versión en inglés por si misma pasa de 10 millones. Sin embargo la mayoría de las modificaciones en la edición de ese lenguaje vienen de unos miles de usuarios muy dedicados.<br />
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Algunas Wikipedias publican o planean publicar su estado regularmente. La versión en alemán es publicada dos veces al año como un DVD en colaboración con Directmedia Publishing, y la edición polaca ha liberado un DVD de su contenido.<br />
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* [http://www.wikipedia.org Portal plurilingüe]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia en inglés]<br />
* [http://de.wikipedia.org Wikipedia en alemán]<br />
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org Wikipedia en francés]<br />
* [http://pl.wikipedia.org Wikipedia en polaco]<br />
* [http://i.wikipedia.org Wikipedia en italiano]<br />
* [http://es.wikipedia.org Wikipedia en español]<br />
* [[m:List of Wikipedias|Lista completa de idiomas]]<br />
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== Wikcionario ==<br />
[[Image:Wiktprintable without text.svg|right|150px]]<br />
Wikcionario es un proyecto para crear un diccionario de contenido plurilingüe gratuito en cada lenguaje. Esto significa que cada proyecto busca usar un lenguaje particular para definir todas las palabras en "todos" los lenguajes. De hecho su objetivo es ser mucho más extenso que un diccionario típico, incluyendo sinónimos, rimas, traducciones, pronunciaciones en audio, atimologías y citas. El proyecto inició en diciembre de 2002 y en enero de 2010 se encuentra disponible en más de 100 idiomas con más de 6,900,000 entradas en total. La edición más grande es la del idioma francés, seguida por inglés, turco y vietnamita. Los cuatro tienen más de 250,000 entradas cada uno, mientras que 17 idiomas en total tienen más de 100,000 entradas cada uno; otros 67 lenguajes tienen al menos 1,000 entradas.<br />
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Wikcionario ha estado colaborando con Wikimedia Commons, muchos archivos de sonido han sido cargados a Commons para proveer a Wikcionario y otros proyectos ejemplos de pronunciación.<br />
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* [http://www.wiktionary.org Portal plurilingüe]<br />
* [http://en.wiktionary.org Wikcionario en inglés]<br />
* [http://fr.wiktionary.org Wikcionario en francés]<br />
* [http://tr.wiktionary.org Wikcionario en turco]<br />
* [http://vi.wiktionary.org Wikcionario en vietnamita]<br />
* [http://es.wiktionary.org Wikcionario en español]<br />
* [[m:Wiktionary|Lista completa de idiomas]]<br />
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== Wikiquote ==<br />
[[image:Wikiquote-logo-en.png|right|150px]]<br />
Wikiquote es un repositorio de citas tomadas de personas famosas, libros, discursos, filmes o cualquier material intelectualmente interesante. También se incluyen proverbios, nemotecnias, o slogans.<br />
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El proyecto inició en julio del 2003; en enero del 2010 incluye más de 100,000 páginas en casi 90 idiomas.El Wikiquote más grande está en inglés con más de 17,000 páginas. Las versiones italiana, polaca y alemana contienen más de 7 artículos cada una<br />
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* [http://www.wikiquote.org Portal plurilingüe]<br />
* [http://en.wikiquote.org Wikiquote en inglés]<br />
* [http://it.Wikiquote.org Wikiquote en italiano]<br />
* [http://pl.Wikiquote.org Wikiquote en polaco]<br />
* [http://de.wikiquote.org Wikiquote en alemán]<br />
* [http://es.wikiquote.org Wikiquote en español]<br />
* [[m:Wikiquote|Lista completa de idiomas]]<br />
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== Wikilibros ==<br />
[[Image:Wikibooks-logo-es.svg|right|150px]]<br />
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Wikilibros busca crear una colección de libros electrónicos gratuitos incluyendo libros de texto, cursos de idiomas, manuales y libros del dominio público. Busca ayudar tanto la (propio-)instrucción de estudiantes y maestros en preparatorias y universidades.<br />
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En enero de 2010 el Wikilibros más grande está en el idioma inglés con más de 38,000 módulos. Las versiones en alemán y francés le siguen teniendo cada uno más de 8,000 módulos.<br />
El proyecto inició en julio del 2003 y ahora tiene más de 132,000 módulos en más de 120 idiomas.<br />
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* [http://www.wikibooks.org/ Portal plurilingüe]<br />
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/ Wikilibros en inglés]<br />
* [http://de.wikibooks.org/ Wikilibros en alemán]<br />
* [http://fr.wikibooks.org/ Wikilibros en francés]<br />
* [http://es.wikibooks.org/ Wikilibros en españól]<br />
* [[:en:b:Wikibooks portal|Lista completa de idiomas]]<br />
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== Wikisource ==<br />
[[Image:Wikisource-newberg-de.png|150px|right]]<br />
Wikisource es un proyecto plurilingüe que inició en noviembre del 2003 para archivar una colección de textos que podían ser distribuidos como contenido gratuito y abierto. No sólo es un formato superior para guardar clásicos, leyes y otras obras gratuitas como hypertexto, sino que sirve como una base para la traducción de éstos textos. En un inicio los textos fuente en todos los idiomas (excepto hebreo) estaban en un wiki. Sin embargo, Wikisource ahora tiene varias ediciones en muchos idiomas individuales.<br />
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Siendo enero del 2010 Wikisource ofrece más de 785,00 textos fuente. La versión más grande es la del idioma inglés con más de 138,00 obras.<br />
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* [http://wikisource.org/ Wikisource (plurilingüe)]<br />
* [http://en.wikisource.org Wikisource en inglés]<br />
* [http://zh.wikisource.org Wikisource en chino]<br />
* [http://pt.wikisource.org Wikisurce en portugués]<br />
* [http://es.wikisource.org Wikisource en español]<br />
* [[m:Wikisource|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wikispecies==<br />
[[Image:Wikispecies-logo.png|right|150px]]<br />
Wikispecies es un proyecto abierto basado en wiki que busca mantener una base de datos central y extensa para taxonomía. Iniciado el 14 de septiembre de 2004, Wikispecies apunta específicamente a las necesidades de usuarios científicos, y en enero de 2010 contenía más de 200,000 artículos. Existen planes para ayudar a Wikispecies a colaborar con el proyecto de la [[w:Enciclopedia de la vida|Enciclopedia de la vida]] cuando éste se encuentre más desarrollado<br />
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* [http://species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies]<br />
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== Wikinoticias ==<br />
[[Image:Wikinews-logo.png|200px|right|Wikinews logo]]<br />
El proyecto Wikinoticias inició en diciembre de 2004 con la misión de reportar sobre noticias en una gran variedad de temas. Siendo enero del 2010 existen versiones de 28 lenguajes, habiendo producido más de 100,000 artículos en total (Se puede subscribir a algunas versiones, incluyendo español, a través de RSS). Los artículos son escritos en colaboración por contribuidores de todo el mundo. Los reportajes van desde producciones originales y entrevistas a resúmenes de las noticias de fuentes externas; es obligatorio que todo se escriba desde un punto de vista neutral.<br />
Actualmente, Wikinoticias tiene dos objetivos: proporcionar una alternativa libre a los sitios informativos comerciales y asegurarse de que los artículos verifiquen sus hechos y sean extensivamente corroborados.<br />
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*[http://www.wikinews.org Portal de Wikinoticias]<br />
*[http://sr.wikinews.org Wikinoticias en serbio]<br />
*[http://en.wikinews.org Wikinoticias en inglés]<br />
*[http://pl.wikinews.org Wikinoticias en polaco]<br />
*[http://es.wikinews.org Wikinoticias en español]<br />
*[[m:Wikinews|Lista completa de idiomas]]<br />
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== Wikiversidad ==<br />
[[Image:Wikiversity-logo.svg|right|150px]]<br />
Wikiversidad es un proyecto dedicado a materiales y comunidades de aprendizaje así como de investigación. Se creó como un proyecto Wikimedia (en fase de pruebas) el 15 de agosto de 2006 con las wikiversidades en inglés y alemán así como la coordinación plurilingüe; desde entonces se han unido las versiones en francés, griego, italiano y español. A pesar de lo que su nombre puede sugerir Wikiversidad no está limitada a materiales de nivel universitario, sino que está abierto a materiales y comunidades de cualquier nivel de aprendizaje.<br />
La manera en que puede facilitar las actividades y comunidades de aprendizaje aún está siendo explorada pero está centrada alrededor del modelo de "aprender al hacer" o "aprendizaje empírico"<br />
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* [http://www.wikiversity.org/ Portal Wikiversidad]<br />
* [http://en.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversidad inglés]<br />
* [http://fr.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversidad francés]<br />
* [http://de.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversidad alemán]<br />
* [http://es.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversidad español]<br />
* [http://beta.wikiversity.org/ Coordinación multilingüe de Wikiversidad]<br />
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==Wikimedia Commons==<br />
[[Image:Commons-logo.svg|right|150px|]]<br />
Wikimedia Commons inició en septiembre de 2004 para formar un repositorio central para archivos multimedia libre como imágenes, diagramas, mapas, videos, animaciones, música, sonidos, textos hablados y otros. Es un proyecto plurilingüe con contribuidores en docenas de idiomas que sirve como repositorio central para todos los proyectos Wikimedia.<br />
El proyecto crece rápidamente, en julio del 2008 alcanzó [[commons:Commons:Press releases/3M/es|tres millones]] de archivos, un año después de alcanzar [[commons:Commons:Press releases/2M/es|dos milliones]]; actualmente contiene más de seis millones de archivos. Wikimedia Commons recibió una mención honorífica por "Comunidad Digital" en los premios Prix Ars Electronica 2005.<br />
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El proyecto tiene dos mecanismos basados en la comunidad para resaltar contribuciones de gran calidad: [[commons:Commons:Imágenes destacadas|Imágenes destacadas]] las cuales señalan imágenes que la comunidad considera particularmente valiosas, e [[commons:Commons:Imágenes de calidad|Imágenes de calidad]] que reconoce buenas contribuciones por los editores de Wikimedia. Desde 2006 ha habido la competencia de [[commons:Commons:Imagen del año|Imagen del año]] la cual involucra toda la comunidad Wikimedia para compartir y celebrar las imágenes libres más inspiradoras. Dos páginas, [[commons:Commons:Meet our photographers|Conoce a nuestros fotófrafos]] y [[commons:Commons:Conoce nuestros ilustradores|Conoce a nuestros ilustradores]], muestran una selección de contribuidores con mucha habilidad que escogen usar licencias de contenido libre y donan su trabajo a Wikimedia Commons.<br />
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*[http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons]<br />
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===Meta===<br />
[[Image:Wikimedia-logo-meta.png|right]]<br />
"Meta" es una wiki central para coordinar y desarrollar todos los proyectos Wikimedia. La Meta wiki incluye la guía de ayuda al software MediaWiki, así como propuestas, discusiones sobre proyectos, políticas, temas sobre desarrollo y administración de todas las wikis de Wikimedia.<br />
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/ Meta wiki de Wikimedia]<br />
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==Proyectos relacionados==<br />
=== MediaWiki ===<br />
[[Image:Mediawiki.png|right|MediaWiki Logo]]<br />
[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] es una plataformaa [[:es:wiki|wiki]] liberada bajo la licencia [[:es:GPL|GPL]]. El software MediaWiki es usado por todos los proyectos Wikimedia y [[w:en:Wikipedia:Sites using MediaWiki|muchos otros sitios]].<br />
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En el 2005, MediaWiki ganó el premio [http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2 les Trophées du Libre] en la categoría ''premio php especial''. En 2007 MediaWiki ya estaba en uso en una enorme cantidad de sitios y proyectos alrededor del mundo y ya había sido descargada más de un millón de veces<br />
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Visita [[MediaWiki]], ve su [[w:es:MediaWiki|artículo en Wikipedia]], o [http://mediawiki.org su sitio web] para más información.<br />
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Hi, I'm Az1568, a Wikimedian since 2006.<br />
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I am part of the Office IT team for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. My work on this username is in my capacity as a volunteer. ''' Official acts by me in the line of my work will be done from my office account, [[User:Azariv]]. ''' <br />
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Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]], where I'm an administrator. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent and as a [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
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*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
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==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com / azariv{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
* AIM: az1658<br />
* Google Talk: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
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* ICQ: 442931924<br />
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''Please also see the [[Donor Privacy Policy]].''<br />
== Purpose ==<br />
This policy defines the basic guidelines governing Wikimedia Foundation’s acceptance and acknowledgment of gifts and grants to further its mission of 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. <br />
== Policy ==<br />
===Types of Gifts===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation will accept the following:<br />
*Cash and cash-equivalent gifts, offered without condition, of up to $100,000.<br />
*Publicly traded securities, which will be liquidated upon receipt.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation may accept the following, subject to the other provisions of this policy:<br />
*Real estate, subject to title search and environmental audit. Real estate will be sold within two years of donation. Minimum value of a gift of real estate must be $1 million.<br />
*Other assets, including but not limited to stock in closely held businesses, patents, stock options, collectibles such as artwork, manuscripts and copyrighted works, stamps, coins, and memorabilia, provided that the minimum value of such gifts, in themselves or as part of a larger gift, is $1 million.<br />
===Restricted Gifts===<br />
*Cash and cash-equivalent gifts, offered without condition, of more than $100,000.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation encourages donors to make unrestricted gifts. Restricted gifts may be accepted for particular purposes or projects, as specified by the Foundation. When a donor wishes to make a restricted gift, that donor shall determine gift parameters in advance with the Wikimedia Foundation. Such parameters may include the following: <br />
*Donation amount and type<br />
*Restrictions and designation<br />
*Gift date<br />
*Distribution term<br />
*Reporting requirements<br />
*Provisions for disposition of gifts when the purpose or project terminates or becomes impossible to achieve.<br />
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===Accepting Gifts/Private Grants -- Board Approval===<br />
Approval from the Board of Trustees is required to accept gifts/private grants to the Foundation which:<br />
*are valued in excess of $100,000; <br />
*do not conform with approved Foundation policies; or<br />
*obligate the Foundation to expenditures or costs for which there is no established fund source. <br />
The Foundation may accept all pledges and gifts/private grants that do not require Board approval per subsections 1-3 of this section (C). The Foundation reserves the right to refuse any gift. The Foundation reviews gift offers to ensure that the terms are in conformity with Foundation policy and do not unduly restrict the usefulness or desirability of the gift.<br />
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===Pledges===<br />
Donors may commit to future gifts ("pledges"), which the Foundation will generally treat as gifts of cash. A donor who commits to a future gift of $100,000 or more may sign a Wikimedia Foundation pledge agreement. <br />
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===Required Accompanying Documentation===<br />
Electronic donations made on the Foundation website need no further indication of donative intent. All other gifts must be clearly identified as gifts by the donor. Checks may be accompanied by a declaration of donor's intent. In-kind donations such as computer or office equipment may be accompanied by a declaration of donor's intent, and delivery should be arranged with Foundation staff. Gifts must also be accompanied by other documentation as required by applicable state and federal law. Endowments must be accompanied by a statement in writing from the donor, which must: <br />
*express the donor's intent to make a gift; <br />
*describe the gift; <br />
*declare the irrevocability of the transfer; <br />
*if the donor wishes, designate the purpose(s) for which the gift is to be used; <br />
*authorize the Foundation to:<br />
*combine the endowment with other funds for investment purposes; <br />
*transfer the income to the principal; <br />
*authorize the Executive Director to identify a new purpose if the original purpose is no longer valid, and to transfer funds to other Foundation priorities; <br />
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===Determining Value of Gift===<br />
The dollar amount of a gift/private grant shall be the amount of cash actually received; or, if in the form of a pledge, the full amount pledged; or the equivalent to the fair market value of securities or other property. The valuation of stock depends upon the date of its receipt.<br />
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===Conflicts of Interest===<br />
There may be a conflict of interest if the acceptance of a gift is placed in a fund in which the recipient retains control of expenditures (e.g., if an employee or Board member makes a gift in support of a project or department the employee or Board member administers). All such gifts should be assigned to an account over which the Executive Director has signature authorization that is not shared by the designated recipient.<br />
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===Accepting Gifts of Securities===<br />
The Foundation is the official custodian of all securities (e.g., stocks and bonds). When securities are received by any department, that fact should be made known immediately to the Executive Director or to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer. <br />
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===Accepting Bequests or Devises===<br />
All papers and documents relating to probate matters, including notices of hearings, wills, documentary evidence of assets, and forms of receipt for distribution as assets, should be forwarded promptly to the Executive Director or to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer. Acknowledgment of a testamentary gift is generally made after distribution from the estate. In some cases, however, acknowledgment prior to receipt may be appropriate. The Executive Director or the Chief Financial and Operating Officer should be consulted in advance concerning prior acknowledgment of a testamentary gift.<br />
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===Accepting Gifts-in-Kind===<br />
Gifts-in-kind may only be accepted by the Executive Director or by an officer delegated in writing by the Executive Director with the authority to accept such a gift. <br />
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==Donor Benefits and Constraints==<br />
===Tax Consequences===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is unable to offer tax advice to would-be donors. Donors who are concerned about tax-deductibility of donations should consult with their own tax advisers. The Foundation is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization operating under United States law as a Florida corporation.<br />
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===Naming Opportunities===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation does not normally offer naming opportunities.<br />
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===Donor Expenses===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation does not typically cover donors' donation-related expenses such as travel, shipping, and appraisals.<br />
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Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]], where I'm an administrator. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent and as a [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
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*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
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==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com / azariv{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
* AIM: az1658<br />
* Google Talk: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* IRC: Az1568 <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
* ICQ: 442931924<br />
* Skype: Az1658<html><br />
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==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
:''Fundraising 2011''<br />
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===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
*[[m:Special:CentralNotice|Central notice admin]]<br />
*[[m:Special:Watchlist|Meta watchlist]]<br />
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__NOEDITSECTION__</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Az1568&diff=58531User:Az15682011-02-01T08:40:49Z<p>Az1568: Up</p>
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| valign="top" | Hi, I'm Az1568, a Wikimedian since 2006.<br />
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Much of my time is spent on the [[Home|Foundation wiki]] and [[m:Main Page|Meta]], where I'm an administrator. I also serve as an [[m:OTRS|OTRS]] respondent and as a [[m:Transcom|translation coordinator]].<br />
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==Links==<br />
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*[[w:User:Az1568|My Wikipedia Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568|My Meta-Wiki Userpage]]<br />
*[[m:User:Az1568/matrix|My Matrix]]<br />
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==Contact Information==<br />
* My Meta talk page: [[m:User talk:Az1568]]<br />
* [[Special:Emailuser/Az1568|E-mail]]: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com / azariv{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
* AIM: az1658<br />
* Google Talk: alex{{@}}alexzariv.com<br />
* IRC: Az1568 <small>([[w:freenode|freenode]])</small><br />
* ICQ: 442931924<br />
* Skype: Az1658<html><br />
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==Useful Information==<br />
===To-do List===<br />
:''[[m:Fundraising 2010|Fundraising 2010]]''<br />
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===Helpful Pages===<br />
*[[m:Translation requests|Translation requests]]<br />
*[[m:Wikimedia site feedback|Wikimedia site feedback]]<br />
*[[Wikimedia:Welcome|More about this wiki...]]<br />
*[[Template:Add News|Add News]]<br />
*[[Special:RecentChanges]]<br />
*[[m:WMFACCOUNT|WMFACCOUNT]]<br />
*[[m:Special:CentralNotice|Central notice admin]]<br />
*[[m:Special:Watchlist|Meta watchlist]]<br />
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__NOEDITSECTION__</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:John_Vandenberg&diff=55705User talk:John Vandenberg2010-12-18T00:31:09Z<p>Az1568: </p>
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<div>{{#ifexist:Template:Welcome-fundraising2010|{{welcome-fundraising2010}}|Nice to see you here, John. Welcome!}} [[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 00:31, 18 December 2010 (UTC)</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:John_Vandenberg&diff=55703User talk:John Vandenberg2010-12-18T00:10:19Z<p>Az1568: w</p>
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<div>{{welcome}} [[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 00:10, 18 December 2010 (UTC)</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kpeterzell&diff=52469User:Kpeterzell2010-12-01T08:56:01Z<p>Az1568: Userpage.</p>
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<div>Keegan Peterzell is a Community Associate working on the 2010 Fundraiser.</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Klyman&diff=52468User:Klyman2010-12-01T08:52:47Z<p>Az1568: Userpage.</p>
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<div>Kelly Lyman is a Community Associate working on the 2010 Fundraiser.</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Schapman&diff=52467User:Schapman2010-12-01T08:51:56Z<p>Az1568: Userpage.</p>
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<div>Sam Chapman is a Community Associate working on the 2010 Fundraiser.</div>Az1568https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE&diff=49528প্রধান পাতা2010-10-31T17:02:48Z<p>Az1568: -</p>
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'''ভাবুন এমন এক পৃথিবীর কথা''' যেখানে প্রতিটি মানুষ সমস্ত জ্ঞান উন্মুক্তভাবে আদান প্রদান করতে পারবে। এটাই আমাদের অঙ্গীকার।<br />'''[[Donate|এবং এতে আপনার সাহায্যের প্রয়োজন।]] অনুগ্রহ করে আজই [[Donate|দান]] করে উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনকে সহায়তা করুন।'''<br />
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[[About Wikimedia|উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশন]] একটি অলাভজনক দাতব্য প্রতিষ্ঠান, যা [[:bn:মুক্ত কন্টেন্ট|মুক্ত]] ও বহুভাষীক কন্টেন্টের বৃদ্ধি, মান্নোয়ন, ও প্রচারে উৎসাহিত করে; সেই সাথে এটি [[:bn:উইকি|উইকি]] ভিত্তিক প্রকল্পেগুলোর কন্টেন্টগুলি জনসাধারণের মাঝে বিনামূল্যে ব্যবহারের সুযোগ করে দেয়। উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশন [[Our projects|সমন্বিত উদ্যোগে সম্পাদিত পৃথিবীর সবচাইতে বড় প্রকল্পগুলো]] পরিচালনা করে। এর মধ্যে আছে [http://www.wikipedia.org উইকিপিডিয়া], যা পৃথিবীর চতুর্থ সর্বাধিক পরিদর্শনকৃত ওয়েবসাইট।<br />
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== উইকিমিডিয়া <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ব্লগ]</span> ==<br />
''উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের সাম্প্রতিক খবর ও অভিমত পড়ুন।''<br />
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== সাহায্য করুন ==<br />
উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশন সম্পূর্ণভাবে ব্যবহারকারীদের সাহায্যের উপরে নির্ভরশীল। অনুগ্রহ করে আমাদের সাহায্য করুন, যা '''[[Volunteer opportunities|সময়]] বা [[Fundraising|অর্থ]]''' প্রদানের মাধ্যমে হতে পারে । [[Benefactors|উপকারভোগী]] পাতাটি উৎসর্গ করা হয়েছে এমন কিছু ব্যক্তি ও প্রতিষ্ঠানকে যাঁদের নিয়মিত সাহায্যে উইকিমিডিয়ার প্রকল্পগুলো সঠিকভাবে পরিচালিত হচ্ছে। উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশন এসকল ব্যবসায়ীক উপকারভোগীদের অবদান বিশেষ গুরুত্বের সাথে প্রকাশ করে না।<br />
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উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশন মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের ৫০১(সি)(৩) ধারা অনুযায়ী একটি অলাভজনক প্রতিষ্ঠান হিসাবে স্বীকৃত, এবং এই প্রতিষ্ঠানে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের অধিবাসীদের কাছ থেকে প্রাপ্ত অনুদান শুল্কমুক্ত। পৃথিবীর অন্যান্য দেশের অধিবাসীরাও এই শুল্ক মওকুফের সুবিধা পেতে পারেন। বিস্তারিত জানার জন্য [[Deductibility of donations|শুল্কমুক্ত অনুদান]] পাতাটি দেখুন। পেপ্যাল, মানিবুকার্স, পোস্টাল মেইল বা সরাসরি দান করার পদ্ধতি সম্পর্কে বিস্তারিত জানতে [[Fundraising|তহবিল গঠন]] পাতাটি দেখুন। এছাড়াও অন্য কোনো মাধ্যমে দান করতে চাইলে অনুগ্রহপূর্বক আমাদের সাথে [[Contact us|যোগাযোগ করুন]]।<br />
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== ব্যবসায়িক বিবরণ ==<br />
উইকিমডিয়া [[Board of Trustees|বোর্ড অফ ট্রাস্টিস]], উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের মূল ব্যবসায়িক কর্তৃপক্ষ। ফাউন্ডেশনের যাবতীয় কর্মকাণ্ড পরিচালনার ক্ষমতা তাঁদের ওপরেই ন্যাস্ত। উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের গঠনতন্ত্র পাওয়া যাবে '''[[Bylaws|উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের গঠনতন্ত্র]]''' পাতায়। এছাড়াও বোর্ড কর্তৃক পাসকৃত অন্যান্য নীতিগুলো পাওয়া যাবে '''[[Policies|নীতিমালা]]''' পাতায়।<br />
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ফাউন্ডেশন '''বাজেট ম্যানেজ করে, যা প্রাথমিকভাবে কম্পিউটার সামগ্রী ও হোস্টিংয়ের''' কাজে ব্যয় হয়। অন্যান্য ব্যয়ের মধ্যে আছে উইকিমিডিয়া প্রকল্পগুলো পরিচালনার জন্য [[Staff|লোকবল]], যদিও বেশিরভাগ মানুষই এখানে স্বেচ্ছাসেবী। [[Meetings|বোর্ড মিটিংয়ের]] তালিকাও এই সাইটে পাওয়া যাবে।<br />
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'''বোর্ডের পাসকৃত সাম্প্রতিক সিদ্ধান্তগুলো পাওয়া যাবে [[Resolutions|রেজোলিউশন]]''' পাতায়।<br />
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== সাম্প্রতিক মাসিক প্রতিবেদন ==<br />
[[m:Wikimedia Foundation Report, August 2010|উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের আগস্টের মাসিক প্রতিবেদনটি এখন পাওয়া যাচ্ছে]]। এটির উন্নয়ন ও অনুবাদে আপনাকে স্বাগতম জানাচ্ছি!<br />
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''আরও তথ্যের জন্য দেখুন '''[[Current events|সমসাময়িক ঘটনাবলী]]'''।''<br />
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<div style="margin-top: 1em; font-size: 90%;">'''[[Privacy policy|গোপনীয়তার নীতি]]''': আপনি যদি উইকিমিডিয়ার কোনো প্রকল্পের ওয়েবসাইট পরিদর্শন করেন, তবে সার্ভার লগে সাধারণত যে সকল তথ্যাদি সংগ্রহ করা হয়, তার থেকে বেশি কিছু সংগৃহীত হয় না। আপনি যদি উইকিমিডিয়ার কোনো প্রকল্পে অবদান রাখেন তবে তা জনসাধারণের জন্য উন্মুক্ত থাকবে। আপনাকে ধরে নিতে হবে, যা কিছুই আপনি লিখুন না কেনো তা সবসময়ের জন্য উন্মুক্ত থাকবে। এর মধ্যে আছে, নিবন্ধ, ব্যবহারকারী পাতা, আলাপ পাতা, এবং ওয়েব পেজের অন্যান্য পাতাসমূহ। বিস্তারিত জানতে আমাদের [[Privacy policy|প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক নীতিমালা]] দেখুন।</div><br />
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