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'''Our projects''' are the core of the [[m:Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]]. All major projects of the [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]] are collaboratively developed by users around the world using the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software. All contributions are released under a [[w:en:Creative Commons license|free Creative Commons license]], meaning that any project content may be freely used, edited, copied, and redistributed, subject to the terms of the license. A full listing of Wikimedia projects is available here: [[Special:SiteMatrix]].<br />
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Please note: while other sites use the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software (often giving them a similar visual appearance) or have a name that includes "Wiki-" or "-pedia", only the projects listed below are part of the Wikimedia Foundation.<br />
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== Wikipedia ==<br />
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Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Virtually anyone with Internet access is free to contribute by contributing neutral, cited information.<br />
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Wikipedia started in January 2001, and currently offers more than 24 million articles written in 284 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English, with more than four million articles; it is followed by the Japanese, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Chinese editions, each of which contain more than 600,000 articles. Over 30 other language editions contain 100,000+ articles, and more than 200 other languages contain 1,000+ articles.<br />
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* [//www.wikipedia.org Multilingual portal]<br />
* [[m:List of Wikipedias|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wiktionary ==<br />
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Wiktionary is a project to create a multilingual free content dictionary in every language. This means each project seeks to use a particular language to define all words in ''all'' languages. It actually aims to be much more extensive than a typical dictionary, including thesauri, rhymes, translations, audio pronunciations, etymologies, and quotations. The project started in December 2002, and as of May 2013 is available in over 150 languages with over 16,000,000 entries in all. The largest language edition is English, with 3,380,000 entires. Then Malagasy, French, Chinese, and Lithuanian follow. All four of them have more than 600,000 entries each, while 24 other languages have more than 100,000 entries each. 73 other languages have at least 1,000 entries.<br />
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Wiktionary works in collaboration with the Wikimedia Commons. Many sound files have been uploaded to Commons to provide Wiktionary and other projects with examples of pronunciation. <br />
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* [//www.wiktionary.org Multilingual portal]<br />
* [[m:Wiktionary|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wikiquote ==<br />
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Wikiquote is a repository of quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are also included in Wikiquote. The project started in July 2003.<br />
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* [//www.wikiquote.org Multilingual portal]<br />
* [[m:Wikiquote|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wikibooks ==<br />
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Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in high schools and universities. <br />
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As of May 2013, the largest Wikibooks is in the English language, with over 46,000 modules from over 2,600 developing books. The German, French, and Hungarian follow, each has over 10,000 modules. The project started in July 2003 and now has over 185,000 modules from over 5,000 developing books, across over 100 languages.<br />
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* [//www.wikibooks.org/ Multilingual portal]<br />
* [[m:Wikibooks|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wikisource ==<br />
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Wikisource is a multilingual project, started in November 2003, to archive a collection of free and open content texts. It is not only a superior format for storing classics, laws, and other free works as hypertext, but it also serves as a base for translating these texts. At the beginning, source texts in all languages (except Hebrew) were all on one wiki. However, Wikisource now has several editions in many individual languages. <br />
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As of May 2013, Wikisource offers 3,800,000 source texts in total. The largest is the French Wikisource, with over 1,350,000 works. Then German, English, Italian, Polish, Russian and Chinese with each containing over 100,000 source texts.<br />
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* [//wikisource.org/ Wikisource (multilingual)]<br />
* [[m:Wikisource|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wikispecies ==<br />
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Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. Launched 14 September 2004, Wikispecies is aimed specifically at the needs of scientific users, and as of January 2013, has over 350,000 entries. There are plans to help Wikispecies collaborate with the [[w:Encyclopedia of Life|Encyclopedia of Life]] project when the latter is more fully underway.<br />
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* [//species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies]<br />
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== Wikinews ==<br />
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The Wikinews project was launched in December 2004 with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports range from original reporting and interviews to summaries of news from external sources. All reports are required to be written from a neutral point of view.<br />
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Unlike other Wikimedia projects, Wikinews is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.5] rather than [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0].<br />
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Currently Wikinews has two aims: providing a free content alternative to commercial news sites and making sure that articles are fact-checked and reviewed thoroughly.<br />
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* [//www.wikinews.org Multilingual portal]<br />
* [[m:Wikinews|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wikiversity ==<br />
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Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities, as well as research. It was set up as a Wikimedia project (in "beta" phase) on 15 August 2006 with the English and German Wikiversities, as well as the multilingual coordination hub. Despite what its name may suggest, Wikiversity is not limited to university (or tertiary) level materials, but is open to materials and communities of all learner levels. The way it can facilitate learning activities and communities is still being explored, but is centered around the model of 'learning by doing', or 'experiential learning'.<br />
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As of October 2010 there are over 30,000 learning resource entries across 12 languages. The English version contains over 13,000 and both French and German have over 2,000 entries.<br />
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* [//www.wikiversity.org/ Multilingual portal]<br />
* [[m:Wikiversity|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== Wikivoyage ==<br />
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Wikivoyage aims to create the world's largest free, complete and up-to-date world-wide travel guide. Wikivoyage was launched in January 2013 and is written by volunteers in the same spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. The project began in December 2006 as a German language fork of a site named Wikitravel, and joined the Wikimedia Foundation project family as a beta with 50,000 articles in seven languages. Wikivoyage is now available in nine languages.<br />
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* [//www.wikivoyage.org/ Multilingual portal]<br />
* [[m:Wikivoyage|Full list of languages]]<br />
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== {{anchor|Commons}}Wikimedia Commons ==<br />
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Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004 to provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.<br />
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The project is growing rapidly. In December 2012, it reached [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/10/15-million-free-media-files-on-wikimedia-commons/ fifteen million] multimedia files, having surpassed 10 million in April of the previous year. Wikimedia Commons received an honorary mention for Digital Community at the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica awards.<br />
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The project has three community-driven mechanisms for highlighting quality contributions: [[commons:Commons:Featured pictures|Featured pictures]] which acknowledge the cream of the crop, and [[commons:Commons:Quality Images|Quality images]], which recognise well-composed creations by Wikimedia editors. Since 2006 it has run a [[commons:Commons:Picture of the Year|Picture of the Year]] competition, which invites the wider Wikimedia community to share in the celebration of the inspiring free content imagery. Two pages, [[commons:Commons:Meet our photographers|Meet our photographers]] and [[commons:Commons:Meet our illustrators|Meet our illustrators]], showcase a selection of the highly skilled contributors who choose to use free content licenses and donate their work to the Wikimedia Commons.<br />
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For more information on Commons, please see [[Spotlight on Wikimedia Commons]]. <br />
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== Wikidata ==<br />
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Wikidata was launched in October 2012 and aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It provides data in all the languages of the Wikimedia projects, and allow for the central access to data in a similar vein as Wikimedia Commons does for multimedia files.<br />
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* [//www.wikidata.org Wikidata]<br />
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== MediaWiki ==<br />
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The MediaWiki open source community maintains several software projects. The [[mw:Manual:What is MediaWiki?|MediaWiki engine]] is used by all Wikimedia projects and [[mw:Sites using MediaWiki|many other sites]]. Its core functionality can be expanded through [[mw:Manual:Extensions|extensions]], [[mw:Gadget kitchen|customizations]], and [[mw:Mobile|mobile applications]]. Developers can use the MediaWiki [[mw:API:Main page|API]] to build applications interacting with sites like Wikipedia. MediaWiki [[mw:How to contribute|welcomes]] technical volunteers for development, testing, system administration, documentation, design, and promotion.<br />
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== Meta-Wiki ==<br />
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Meta-Wiki is a project used as a central hub for various coordination and organization tasks, such as discussions affecting multiple wikis or planning upcoming events. It has been used for a wide range of purposes, from documenting [[m:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies|wiki philosophy]] to submitting [[m:Grants:Index|grant proposals]]. Other notable uses of Meta include [[m:Requests for new languages|"Requests for new languages"]] and the public center for [[m:Stewards|steward]] activity and some [[m:Fundraising|fundraising-related discussions]]. Like Wikidata and Commons, it aims to be multilingual.<br />
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* [//meta.wikimedia.org Meta-Wiki]<br />
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== {{anchor|Incubator}} Wikimedia Incubator ==<br />
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The Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki used for developing new wikis. In other words, it is where new editions of Wikimedia content projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.) are created before going "live" to a subdomain like en.wikipedia.org or fr.wikipedia.org. Each wiki being created there is called a "test wiki", and is identified by a code for the project family (such as "Wp" for Wikipedia) and its [[w:ISO 639|ISO 639 code]]. For example, the Votic Wikipedia is being incubated as [[incubator:Wp/vot|Wp/vot]]. Note that Wikisource and Wikiversity have separate "incubators", [[oldwikisource:|www.wikisource.org]] and [[betawikiversity:|Beta Wikiversity]], respectively. Like Meta, Commons, and Wikidata, it aims to have its policies translated into many languages.<br />
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* [//incubator.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Incubator]<br />
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== {{anchor|Labs}} Wikimedia Labs ==<br />
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Wikimedia Labs is a project aimed to help volunteers get involved in Wikimedia operations and software development, and to make it easier for system administrators and developers to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki. Wikitech is a site for internal technical documentation of Wikimedia infrastructure, and it is connected with the Wikimedia Labs project.<br />
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* [//wikitech.wikimedia.org Wikitech]<br />
* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs Wikimedia Labs at MediaWiki.org]<br />
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* {{{wikimediaatwork|[http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork @wikimediaatwork] on identi.ca and [http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork Twitter] (Human Resource Updates Job Openings, Hire Announcements, Contracts and more...)}}}<br />
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{{{category|[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]}}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=70459User:GerardM2011-10-10T18:01:45Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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I work for the Wikimedia Foundation as an Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant and am part of the [[Localisation team]]. I am a [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com very frequent blogger].<br />
Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] 18:00, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=70458User:GerardM2011-10-10T18:00:42Z<p>GerardM: new text for my userpage</p>
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I work for the Wikimedia Foundation as an Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant and am part of the [[:Wikimedia:Localisation_team|Localisation team]]. I am a [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com very frequent blogger].<br />
Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] 18:00, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=70457User:GerardM2011-10-10T17:46:24Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
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In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Template:Staff_and_contractors&diff=70456Archive:Template:Staff and contractors2011-10-10T17:43:13Z<p>GerardM: Adding the Localisation team</p>
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* {{{wikimediaatwork|[http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork @wikimediaatwork] on identi.ca and [http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork Twitter] (Human Resource Updates Job Openings, Hire Announcements, Contracts and more...)}}}<br />
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{{{category|[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]}}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=70452User:GerardM2011-10-10T16:45:42Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
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In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.<br />
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
<br />
In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.<br />
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| username = GerardM<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Gerard Meijssen.jpg<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Niklas|Niklas Laxström}}}<br />
| username = :meta:user:Nikerabbit<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Santhosh|Santhosh Thottingal}}}<br />
| username = :meta:user:Nikerabbit<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Santhosh Thottingal.jpg <br />
| team = {{{Localisation team|Localisation team}}}<br />
}}<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Siebrand|Siebrand Mazeland}}}<br />
| username = Siebrand<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Siebrand Mazeland.jpg <br />
| team = {{{Localisation team|Localisation team}}}<br />
}}<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Sue|Sue Gardner}}}<br />
| username = Sue Gardner<br />
| position = {{{ED|Executive Director}}}<br />
| image = Wikimedia Foundation Sue Gardner Sept 2010.jpg<br />
| team = {{{test|test}}}<br />
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
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In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{GerardM|Gerard Meijssen}}}<br />
| username = GerardM<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Gerard Meijssen.jpg<br />
| team = {{{Localisation team|Localisation team}}}<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Nlaxström|Niklas Laxström}}}<br />
| username = :meta:user:Nike<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Niklas Laxström.jpg <br />
| team = {{{Localisation team|Localisation team}}}<br />
}}<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Sue|Sue Gardner}}}<br />
| username = Sue Gardner<br />
| position = {{{ED|Executive Director}}}<br />
| image = Wikimedia Foundation Sue Gardner Sept 2010.jpg<br />
| team = {{{test|test}}}<br />
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
<br />
In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{GerardM|Gerard Meijssen}}}<br />
| username = GerardM<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Gerard Meijssen.jpg<br />
| team = {{{Localisation team|Localisation team}}}<br />
}}<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Sue|Sue Gardner}}}<br />
| username = Sue Gardner<br />
| position = {{{ED|Executive Director}}}<br />
| image = Wikimedia Foundation Sue Gardner Sept 2010.jpg<br />
| team = {{{test|test}}}<br />
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
<br />
In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{GerardM|Gerard Meijssen}}}<br />
| username = meta:User:GerardM<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Gerard Meijssen.jpg<br />
| team = {{{Localisation team|Localisation team}}}<br />
}}<br />
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{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Sue|Sue Gardner}}}<br />
| username = Sue Gardner<br />
| position = {{{ED|Executive Director}}}<br />
| image = Wikimedia Foundation Sue Gardner Sept 2010.jpg<br />
}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=70353User:GerardM2011-10-10T15:38:52Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
<br />
In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.<br />
<br />
{{staff member<br />
| name = {{{Gerard|Gerard Meijssen}}}<br />
| username = GerardM<br />
| position = Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant<br />
| image = Localisation team - Gerard Meijssen.jpg<br />
| team = {{{Localisation team|Localisation team}}}<br />
}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mark_Bergsma_(WMF)&diff=47994User:Mark Bergsma (WMF)2010-09-17T19:38:19Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>[[File:Mark Bergsma June08.JPG|thumb|200px|Mark Bergsma, Networking Coordinator]]<br />
'''Mark Bergsma''' has been the Wikimedia Foundation's Networking Coordinator since September 2006. He became in September 2010 the [[Operations Engineering Programs Manager]]</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:NeilK&diff=47619User:NeilK2010-08-09T19:36:34Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>[[File:NKandalgaonkar April 2010 wikimedia 03 10 374.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Neil Kandalgaonkar]]<br />
'''Neil Kandalgaonkar''' has been the Software Developer of the [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/02/ford-foundation-awards-300k-grant-for-wikimedia-commons Wikimedia Multimedia Usability Project] since January 2010. <br />
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Neil Kandalgaonkar brings in the breadth of experience in software engineering from major social networking web sites such as Flickr and Upcoming.org. Neil oversaw improving payment system and performance of FlickrMail interface at Flickr, integrated Upcoming.org into Yahoo properties and helped expand the team. Prior to Yahoo!, Neil was with Google and his main responsibility was to enable Google Checkout system for non-US markets. Neil holds Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_Trustees&diff=46796Board of Trustees2010-05-18T20:16:19Z<p>GerardM: /* Kat Walsh */</p>
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The Wikimedia '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of ten Trustees:<br />
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* [[#Michael Snow|Michael Snow]], Chair <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]], Vice-chair <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Stu West|Stu West]], Treasurer <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Samuel Klein|Samuel Klein]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
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The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
* Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
* [[m:Template:BoardChart|A chart]] illustrating Board seats over time<br />
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=== Michael Snow ===<br />
[[Image:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|left|thumb|Michael Snow]]<br />
[[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]] was named Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2008. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:Wales WMF Board Sept 2009 Goldberg.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===<br />
[[Image:DeVreede WMF Board Sept 2009 GOLDBERGN-9028.jpg|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] was named Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation in January 2007 after having joined the board in December 2006. <br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and the Wikiwijs project which has the goal of creating a large OER movement within the Netherlands. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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=== Kat Walsh ===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, she recently graduated from her study technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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=== Stu West ===<br />
[[Image:StuWest April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] joined the Wikimedia Board in April 2008. He brings over 17 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Chen Sept 09 WMF Board.jpg|right|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was elected a Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 and his term started officially in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
[[Image:2008503_Halprin_16high_resolution_2.jpg|right|thumb|Matt Halprin]]<br />
Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
[[Image:Joi-sj-narrow.jpg|left|thumb|In Taipei in 2007.]]<br />
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] (born in 1978 in New York) was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he leads local content creation and develops global advocacy for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing access to knowledge and communication networks to children everywhere. He has worked with children and teachers in Peru, Uruguay, and Nepal to organize content and software jams and to teach others what they learn.<br />
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Samuel has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for 6 years. He has spent much of that time writing and speaking about the Projects. In 2005 he published a Wikimedia newsletter in 6 languages, and served as a cross-project translation lead. He also served on the Communications and Special Projects Committees in their first year. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.<br />
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Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before working on universal education.<br />
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More information about Samuel is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]].<br />
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=== Bishakha Datta ===<br />
[[Image:Bish in Whistler1.jpg|right|thumb|Bishakha Datta in Whistler, British Columbia.]]<br />
Bishakha Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. Currently the leader of India-based non-profit [http://www.pointofview.org Point of View], she brings two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world including Kenya, Uganda, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Bishakha received an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]], as well as an MA in English Literature and BA in Economics from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]]. She lives and works in Mumbai.<br />
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== Former Board members ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
File:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
File:Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
File:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
File:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
File:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France<br />
File:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy<br />
File:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania<br />
</gallery><br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Milan where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008 after being re-elected again as board member and president of Wikimedia Italia.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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==Roles of board members and officers==<br />
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* [[Board member]]<br />
* [[Treasurer]]<br />
* [[Chair]]<br />
* [[Secretary]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)<br />
* [[Resolutions]]<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:JayWalsh&diff=46374User talk:JayWalsh2010-04-08T14:47:52Z<p>GerardM: /* license picture */ new section</p>
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<div>{{welcome}}--[[User:Aphaia|Aphaea]] 16:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== News about position "Head_of_Communications" ==<br />
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Hi! <br />
I noticed news [[:n:en:Jay_Walsh_named_Wikimedia_Foundation_Head_of_Communications]] - and not seen her on this website. Probably need it [[Current events|here]]? And, may be, need update text of [[Current staff]] page ? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 17:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:Kaganer, I think we are going to a batch update of all of that (the [[Current staff]] page and [[User:Cbrown1023/Relocation updates|other updates]]) after the Relocation and the large amount of staffing changes are over. Possibly we could include this all in one press release as well? '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 01:22, 20 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
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You're both correct - and I appreciate the prompting. We'll be doing some major updating to the Foundation wiki this week, clarifying the new SF personnel etc. Stay tuned!<small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:JayWalsh|JayWalsh]] ([[User talk:JayWalsh|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/JayWalsh|contribs]]) 05:52, 21 January 2008</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --><br />
:Thanks for the reply, Jay. :-) On talk pages, you can use four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) to automatically add your name and the date at the end of your posts. '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 15:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: I are saw, and began translate to russian ;) --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 14:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== release ==<br />
I have made a couple of ammendments. I suggest we go out on Wed sometime? --[[User:AndrewCates|AndrewCates]] 21:15, 20 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== license picture ==<br />
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Hoi, would you be so kind and add a license to [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Bish_in_Whistler1.jpg this picture]? thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] 14:47, 8 April 2010 (UTC)</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rebecca_Handler&diff=45581User:Rebecca Handler2010-01-26T23:38:53Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>[[File:Rebecca Handler June08.JPG|Rebecca June 2008|thumb|right|350px]]<br />
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Rebecca is the Head of Major Gifts for the Wikimedia Foundation.<br />
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Prior to joining the Wikimedia team, Rebecca worked as an independent fundraising & marketing consultant. Her most recent project involved working with the Branson School providing fundraising recommendations, training Alumni in donation solicitation and writing fundraising materials. Prior to the Branson School, Rebecca worked for the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco where she implemented a comprehensive fundraising, marketing and membership plan for the new $83MM community center, managed a portfolio of Major Donor relationships and directed an Annual Plan for the Center's preschools. Her previous<br />
experience included work for the Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired (where she is now on the Board of Directors) and Project Bread, an umbrella funding organization for emergency food programs. Rebecca has an M.B.A from the University of San Francisco and a B.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rand_Montoya&diff=40831User:Rand Montoya2009-11-03T17:50:41Z<p>GerardM: a picture paints a thousand words</p>
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Rand Montoya is the Foundation's [[Current staff|Head of Community Giving]] (since July 2008). <br />
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Rand has over 13 years experience working in the non-profit sector and is an experienced development professional. He comes to us from the [[w:American Red Cross|American Red Cross]] (Bay Area Chapter) where he served as the Development Services Manager. In that role, he directed a $3MM per year fundraising program. Prior to that, Rand was with the [[w:Alta_Bates|Alta Bates Summit Foundation]] as the Information Systems Coordinator. Rand also spent 5 years with [http://www.hospicebythebay.org/ Hospice of Marin] where he worked in various database and fundraising capacities.<br />
Rand holds a degree in [[w:University_of_California%2C_Berkeley_School_of_Social_Welfare|Social Welfare]] from the [[w:Uc_berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]]. He will work immediately on this year's Online Fundraising campaign.<br />
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Rand can be reached via...<br />
* Email: rand@wikimedia.org<br />
* Phone: 415.839.6885 x615<br />
* Fax: 415.882.0495<br />
* AIM: wikirand</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rand_Montoya&diff=40830User:Rand Montoya2009-11-03T17:49:39Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>[[File:Rand Montoya June08.JPG|Rand Montoya June 2008|thumb|250pX]]<br />
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Rand Montoya is the Foundation's [[Current staff|Head of Community Giving]] (since July 2008). <br />
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Rand has over 13 years experience working in the non-profit sector and is an experienced development professional. He comes to us from the [[w:American Red Cross|American Red Cross]] (Bay Area Chapter) where he served as the Development Services Manager. In that role, he directed a $3MM per year fundraising program. Prior to that, Rand was with the [[w:Alta_Bates|Alta Bates Summit Foundation]] as the Information Systems Coordinator. Rand also spent 5 years with [http://www.hospicebythebay.org/ Hospice of Marin] where he worked in various database and fundraising capacities.<br />
Rand holds a degree in [[w:University_of_California%2C_Berkeley_School_of_Social_Welfare|Social Welfare]] from the [[w:Uc_berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]]. He will work immediately on this year's Online Fundraising campaign.<br />
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Rand can be reached via...<br />
* Email: rand@wikimedia.org<br />
* Phone: 415.839.6885 x615<br />
* Fax: 415.882.0495<br />
* AIM: wikirand</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Shuhari&diff=40061User:Shuhari2009-08-22T06:36:12Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>[[File:Naoko Komura December 2008.jpg|350px|thumb|Naoko Komura December 2008]]<br />
Naoko Komura is the Program Manager for the [[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|Stanton Foundation Usability Project]].<br />
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Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Naoko had worked as a Senior Program Manager and Project Manager for Yahoo! Mail, Postini (now a Google company), Cygnus Solutions, and GolfWeb. Naoko often contributes to Wikimedia Commons, which she believes plays a crucial role in social media and citizen journalism. Another Wiki project close to her heart is Wikispecies, a catalog of species which helps raise awareness of identified endangered species. She has a MA in International Development Policy from Stanford University, an MS in Economics from Kobe University, as well as a BA in Cultural Studies from Osaka University. Naoko practices [[w:Aikido|Aikido]], loves surfing, playing with legos, and knitting. She's also a native speaker of Japanese.<br />
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In addition to the Usability Project, Naoko has previously worked with the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor shepherding two important projects: the [[Press releases/UNU survey agreement|reader/contributor survey]], which was successfully launched and received tens of thousands of responses, and the [[wm2008:Survey|Wikimania 2008 postmortem]] analysis. She's also project managed the [[Press releases/2008-9 Annual Giving Campaign Launch|fundraiser translation work]], the development of the Stanton Foundation grant proposal, and another grant proposal for the [[Press releases/Wikimedia Ford Foundation Grant July 2009|Wikimedia Commons]].<br />
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Naoko's email address is nkomura{{@}}wikimedia.org.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Parul_Vora&diff=40060User:Parul Vora2009-08-22T06:34:32Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>[[File:Parul Vora May 2009.jpg|thumb|350px|Parul Vora May 2009]]<br />
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'''Parul Vora''', a former Resident Designer of the Design Innovation Team at Yahoo! and intern researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, joined the [[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|Stanton Usability Team]] as [[Staff#Wikipedia Usability Project|Interaction Designer]] in February 2009.<br />
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Parul brings a unique combined talent of user experience research, design, and technology to the team. She worked on various research and design projects such as experimental information interfaces and an online application for event-based media sharing. At Intel Research Labs, she researched open-source physical computing platforms, sensors and actuators, and visual programming languages for mobile phone platforms. Parul holds a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Laboratory, and a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science from University of California Berkeley. She is currently on a leave of absence from the doctoral program at Program in Design (d.school) at Stanford.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=34389User:GerardM2008-11-07T07:41:39Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
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In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in ''other'' languages suffers.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=34388User:GerardM2008-11-07T07:41:18Z<p>GerardM: Who I am and what I do.</p>
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort. <br />
<br />
In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in other languages suffers.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_of_Partnerships_and_Foundation_Relations_Job_Description&diff=34387Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations Job Description2008-11-07T07:36:34Z<p>GerardM: New page: ;Job Title Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations, Wikimedia Foundation ;Job Purpose As head of partnerships, your job is to develop and execute a strategy that will enable the F...</p>
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<div>;Job Title<br />
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Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations, Wikimedia Foundation<br />
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;Job Purpose<br />
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As head of partnerships, your job is to develop and execute a strategy that will enable the Foundation to better fulfill its mission and further its goals through partnerships, particularly ones which fit into the higher level strategic planning of the Foundation. This is not a public/stakeholder/community outreach or relationship-building role: the intent is to partner with institutions, particularly non-profits, to create mission-driven projects, and get them funded and executed.<br />
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;Job Summary<br />
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This position will develop and execute a partnerships strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation designed to further its mission of providing free information for everyone in the world. Currently the Foundation has very little experience in building partnerships: this is in many ways a start-up role. This role requires a strong ability to analyze, to think strategically, understand the Foundation’s goals and maintain a sharp focus on what will further them.<br />
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;Responsibilities:<br />
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* Develop strategy: including identifying the major assets and capabilities that the Foundation brings to partnership activities and relationships, and developing and implementing a process for evaluating opportunities and ideas in terms of mission/goals fit and organizational capacity;<br />
* Manage ongoing activities, including triaging all opportunities; developing relationships with partners and potential partners; managing the partnerships pipeline; researching opportunities and selecting the most appropriate to be developed; creating and implementing realistic project plans and timelines; coordinating and managing multiple projects simultaneously;<br />
* Develop and track measures of success and create progress reports for all partnerships;<br />
* Create templates and processes for partnership deals and grants proposals enabling the Foundation volunteer community to initiate partnerships of its own;<br />
* Secure funding sources for partnerships, including grants;<br />
* Develop and maintain a database of partners and prospective partners;<br />
* Work closely with the head of fundraising and the head of business development;<br />
* Other duties as required.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_of_Partnerships_and_Foundation_Relations&diff=34386Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations2008-11-07T07:32:23Z<p>GerardM: New page: '''The current HHead of Partnerships and Foundation Relations information may be found at Current staff''' ==WMF Job Description: Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations== {{:He...</p>
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==WMF Job Description: Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations==<br />
{{:Head of Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations Job Description}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_of_Business_Development_Job_Description&diff=34384Head of Business Development Job Description2008-11-07T07:19:12Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>;Job Title<br />
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Head of Business Development, Wikimedia Foundation<br />
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;Job Purpose<br />
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As head of business development for the Wikimedia Foundation, your job is to develop and execute a business development strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its mission, vision, values, and overall strategy. This position reports to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer.<br />
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;Job Summary<br />
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This position will develop and execute a business development strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. The primary focus of this role will be to identify and develop earned-income activities with for-profit companies, particularly where those activities can help to make the Foundation’s educational and informational materials more widely available, in multiple forms, for people around the world. The role mainly involves developing new deals, although it includes some management of existing deals.<br />
<br />
;Responsibilities:<br />
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* Develop strategy: including identifying the major assets and capabilities that the Foundation brings to business development activities and developing and implementing a process for evaluating opportunities in terms of financial gain, mission/strategy fit and organizational capacity;<br />
* Manage ongoing activities, including triaging all incoming opportunities; developing relationships with external partners and potential partners; managing the deals pipeline; researching opportunities and selecting the most appropriate to be developed; creating and implementing realistic business plans; working with legal counsel to develop contracts; coordinating and managing multiple projects simultaneously;<br />
* Create key performance metrics during the execution of business planning and strategy development for specific programs, including market analysis, revenue planning, activity forecasting, and development of pro forma financial statements;<br />
* Achieve annual business income targets, as established during the budgeting process;<br />
* Prepare verbal and written communications, reports, and presentations;<br />
* Stay on top of industry trends (e.g. acceptance/adoption of new technologies, etc.);<br />
* Other duties as required.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_of_Business_Development_Job_Description&diff=34383Head of Business Development Job Description2008-11-07T07:18:34Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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;Job Title<br />
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Head of Business Development, Wikimedia Foundation<br />
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;Job Purpose<br />
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As head of business development for the Wikimedia Foundation, your job is to develop and execute a business development strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its mission, vision, values, and overall strategy. This position reports to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer.<br />
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;Job Summary<br />
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This position will develop and execute a business development strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. The primary focus of this role will be to identify and develop earned-income activities with for-profit companies, particularly where those activities can help to make the Foundation’s educational and informational materials more widely available, in multiple forms, for people around the world. The role mainly involves developing new deals, although it includes some management of existing deals.<br />
<br />
;Responsibilities:<br />
<br />
* Develop strategy: including identifying the major assets and capabilities that the Foundation brings to business development activities and developing and implementing a process for evaluating opportunities in terms of financial gain, mission/strategy fit and organizational capacity;<br />
* Manage ongoing activities, including triaging all incoming opportunities; developing relationships with external partners and potential partners; managing the deals pipeline; researching opportunities and selecting the most appropriate to be developed; creating and implementing realistic business plans; working with legal counsel to develop contracts; coordinating and managing multiple projects simultaneously;<br />
* Create key performance metrics during the execution of business planning and strategy development for specific programs, including market analysis, revenue planning, activity forecasting, and development of pro forma financial statements;<br />
* Achieve annual business income targets, as established during the budgeting process;<br />
* Prepare verbal and written communications, reports, and presentations;<br />
* Stay on top of industry trends (e.g. acceptance/adoption of new technologies, etc.);<br />
* Other duties as required.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_of_Business_Development_Job_Description&diff=34382Head of Business Development Job Description2008-11-07T07:17:38Z<p>GerardM: New page: WMF Job Description: Head of Development WMF Job Description: Head of Business Development JOB TITLE Head of Business Development, Wikimedia Foundation JOB PURPOSE As head of business...</p>
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WMF Job Description: Head of Business Development<br />
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JOB TITLE<br />
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Head of Business Development, Wikimedia Foundation<br />
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JOB PURPOSE<br />
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As head of business development for the Wikimedia Foundation, your job is to develop and execute a business development strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its mission, vision, values, and overall strategy. This position reports to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer.<br />
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;JOB SUMMARY<br />
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This position will develop and execute a business development strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. The primary focus of this role will be to identify and develop earned-income activities with for-profit companies, particularly where those activities can help to make the Foundation’s educational and informational materials more widely available, in multiple forms, for people around the world. The role mainly involves developing new deals, although it includes some management of existing deals.<br />
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;Responsibilities:<br />
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* Develop strategy: including identifying the major assets and capabilities that the Foundation brings to business development activities and developing and implementing a process for evaluating opportunities in terms of financial gain, mission/strategy fit and organizational capacity;<br />
* Manage ongoing activities, including triaging all incoming opportunities; developing relationships with external partners and potential partners; managing the deals pipeline; researching opportunities and selecting the most appropriate to be developed; creating and implementing realistic business plans; working with legal counsel to develop contracts; coordinating and managing multiple projects simultaneously;<br />
* Create key performance metrics during the execution of business planning and strategy development for specific programs, including market analysis, revenue planning, activity forecasting, and development of pro forma financial statements;<br />
* Achieve annual business income targets, as established during the budgeting process;<br />
* Prepare verbal and written communications, reports, and presentations;<br />
* Stay on top of industry trends (e.g. acceptance/adoption of new technologies, etc.);<br />
* Other duties as required.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deputy_Director_Job_Description&diff=34381Deputy Director Job Description2008-11-07T07:15:54Z<p>GerardM: New page: ;Job Title Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation<br> ;MISSION OF THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to coll...</p>
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<div>;Job Title<br />
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation<br><br />
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;MISSION OF THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION <br />
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop neutral educational content under a free content license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.<br />
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep the educational content from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.<br />
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;REPORTS TO<br />
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Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation<br />
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;POSITIONS REPORTING TO THIS ONE<br />
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CTO. Authority over non-technical staff as delegated by the Executive Director<br />
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;Job summary<br />
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The purpose of this role is to support the executive director in the development and implementation of the Foundation’s strategic plans and policies, and to provide leadership and direction to the CTO and other technical staff.<br />
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RESPONSIBILITIES<br />
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* Full delegated authority to act on behalf of the Executive Director in her absence;<br />
* Responsible for the development and execution of the Foundation's technical strategy;<br />
* Provides leadership and direction for technical staff, setting an effective agenda and ensuring performance goals are met and set;<br />
* Serves as a mentor, coach and guide to senior staff, particularly with regards to the Wikimedia community and wiki technology;<br />
* Represents the organization to the public, key stakeholders and business partners;<br />
* Provides guidance, as requested by the Executive Director, for fundraising and donor management, business development and partnership activities;<br />
* Provides guidance, as requested by the Executive Director, for program activities including outreach, volunteer coordination and partnerships development, as well as marketing, media relations, public relations and issues management activities;<br />
* Other duties as requested by the Executive Director.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deputy_Director&diff=34380Deputy Director2008-11-07T07:08:35Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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==WMF Job Description: Deputy Director==<br />
{{:Deputy Director Job Description}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_of_Mobile_and_Business_Development&diff=34379Head of Mobile and Business Development2008-11-07T07:06:46Z<p>GerardM: New page: '''The current Head of Business Development information may be found at Current staff''' ==WMF Job Description: Head of Business Development== {{:Head of Business Development Job Desc...</p>
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==WMF Job Description: Head of Business Development==<br />
{{:Head of Business Development Job Description}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_of_Public_Outreach&diff=34378Head of Public Outreach2008-11-07T07:01:34Z<p>GerardM: New page: '''The current Head of Public Outreach information may be found at Current staff''' ==WMF Job Description: Head of Public Outreach== {{:Head of Public Outreach Job Description}}</p>
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==WMF Job Description: Head of Public Outreach==<br />
{{:Head of Public Outreach Job Description}}</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Staff_and_contractors&diff=34377Staff and contractors2008-11-07T07:00:38Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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|Sue=Sue Gardner<br />
|SueText=[[Executive Director]] since December 2007.<br />
|Erik=Erik Möller<br />
|ErikText=[[Deputy Director]] since December 2007.<br />
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|Technology=Technology<br />
|Brion=Brion Vibber<br />
|BrionText=[[m:Chief Technical Officer|Chief Technical Officer]] since August 2005.<br />
|Tim=Tim Starling<br />
|TimText=[[MediaWiki software developer]], since April 2006.<br />
|Tomasz=Tomasz Finc<br />
|TomaszText=[[Software Developer]] since August 2008.<br />
|Rob=Rob Halsell<br />
|RobText=[[IT Manager|IT Manager]], since December 2006.<br />
|Mark=Mark Bergsma<br />
|MarkText=[[Networking Coordinator]], since September 2006.<br />
|MichaelDale='''Michael Dale''' works in the San Francisco office on open source video collaboration technology. His work is sponsored by [http://www.kaltura.com Kaltura, Inc.] (see [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/23/kaltura-sponsors-michael-dale-open-source-video-developer/ related blog post])<br />
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|Programs=Programs<br />
|Jay=Jay Walsh<br />
|JayText=[[Head of Communications]] since January 2008.<br />
|Frank=Frank Schulenburg<br />
|FrankText=[[Head of Public Outreach]] since July 2008.<br />
|Cary=<span id="Cary_Bass">Cary Bass</span><br />
|CaryText=[[Volunteer Coordinator]], since April 2007.<br />
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|FinanceAdminLegal=Finance / Administration / Legal<br />
|Veronique=Véronique Kessler<br />
|VeroniqueText=[[Chief Financial and Operating Officer]] since February 2008.<br />
|Rand=Rand Montoya<br />
|RandText=[[Head of Community Giving]] since July 2008.<br />
|Rebecca=Rebecca Handler<br />
|RebeccaText=[[Head of Major Gifts]] since August 2008.<br />
|Sara=Sara Crouse<br />
|SaraText=[[Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations]] since July 2008.<br />
|Patti=Patti Melton<br />
|PattiText=[[Personal Assistant to the Executive and Deputy Director]] since July 2008.<br />
|Mike=Mike Godwin<br />
|MikeText=[[General Counsel and Legal Coordinator]] since July 2007.<br />
|Kul=Kul Wadhwa<br />
|KulText=[[Head of Business Development]] since January 2008.<br />
|Erica=Erica Ortega<br />
|EricaText=[[Office Manager]] in the San Francisco office since December 2007 (until September 2008).<br />
|MaryLou=Mary Lou Secoquian<br />
|MaryLouText=[[Accountant]] since March 2008.<br />
|Anya=Anya Shyrokova<br />
|AnyaText=[[Development Associate]] since August 2008.<br />
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|SueText=[[Executive Director]] since December 2007.<br />
|Erik=Erik Möller<br />
|ErikText=[[Deputy Director]] since December 2007.<br />
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|Technology=Technology<br />
|Brion=Brion Vibber<br />
|BrionText=[[m:Chief Technical Officer|Chief Technical Officer]] since August 2005.<br />
|Tim=Tim Starling<br />
|TimText=[[MediaWiki software developer]], since April 2006.<br />
|Tomasz=Tomasz Finc<br />
|TomaszText=[[Software Developer]] since August 2008.<br />
|Rob=Rob Halsell<br />
|RobText=[[IT Manager|IT Manager]], since December 2006.<br />
|Mark=Mark Bergsma<br />
|MarkText=[[Networking Coordinator]], since September 2006.<br />
|MichaelDale='''Michael Dale''' works in the San Francisco office on open source video collaboration technology. His work is sponsored by [http://www.kaltura.com Kaltura, Inc.] (see [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/23/kaltura-sponsors-michael-dale-open-source-video-developer/ related blog post])<br />
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|Jay=Jay Walsh<br />
|JayText=[[Head of Communications]] since January 2008.<br />
|Frank=Frank Schulenburg<br />
|FrankText=[[Head of Public Outreach]] since July 2008.<br />
|Cary=<span id="Cary_Bass">Cary Bass</span><br />
|CaryText=[[Volunteer Coordinator]], since April 2007.<br />
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|FinanceAdminLegal=Finance / Administration / Legal<br />
|Veronique=Véronique Kessler<br />
|VeroniqueText=[[Chief Financial and Operating Officer]] since February 2008.<br />
|Rand=Rand Montoya<br />
|RandText=[[Head of Community Giving]] since July 2008.<br />
|Rebecca=Rebecca Handler<br />
|RebeccaText=[[Head of Major Gifts]] since August 2008.<br />
|Sara=Sara Crouse<br />
|SaraText=[[Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations]] since July 2008.<br />
|Patti=Patti Melton<br />
|PattiText=[[Personal Assistant to the Executive and Deputy Director]] since July 2008.<br />
|Mike=Mike Godwin<br />
|MikeText=[[General Counsel and Legal Coordinator]] since July 2007.<br />
|Kul=Kul Wadhwa<br />
|KulText=[[Head of Business Development]] since January 2008.<br />
|Erica=Erica Ortega<br />
|EricaText=[[Office Manager]] in the San Francisco office since December 2007 (until September 2008).<br />
|MaryLou=Mary Lou Secoquian<br />
|MaryLouText={{Accountant]] since March 2008.<br />
|Anya=Anya Shyrokova<br />
|AnyaText=[[Development Associate]] since August 2008.<br />
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|Executive=Executive<br />
|Sue=Sue Gardner<br />
|SueText=[[Executive Director]] since December 2007.<br />
|Erik=Erik Möller<br />
|ErikText=[[Deputy Director]] since December 2007.<br />
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|Technology=Technology<br />
|Brion=Brion Vibber<br />
|BrionText=[[m:Chief Technical Officer|Chief Technical Officer]] since August 2005.<br />
|Tim=Tim Starling<br />
|TimText=[[MediaWiki software developer]], since April 2006.<br />
|Tomasz=Tomasz Finc<br />
|TomaszText=[[Software Developer]] since August 2008.<br />
|Rob=Rob Halsell<br />
|RobText=[[IT Manager|IT Manager]], since December 2006.<br />
|Mark=Mark Bergsma<br />
|MarkText=[[Networking Coordinator]], since September 2006.<br />
|MichaelDale='''Michael Dale''' works in the San Francisco office on open source video collaboration technology. His work is sponsored by [http://www.kaltura.com Kaltura, Inc.] (see [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/23/kaltura-sponsors-michael-dale-open-source-video-developer/ related blog post])<br />
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|Programs=Programs<br />
|Jay=Jay Walsh<br />
|JayText=[[Head of Communications]] since January 2008.<br />
|Frank=Frank Schulenburg<br />
|FrankText=[[Head of Public Outreach]] since July 2008.<br />
|Cary=<span id="Cary_Bass">Cary Bass</span><br />
|CaryText=[[Volunteer Coordinator]], since April 2007.<br />
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|FinanceAdminLegal=Finance / Administration / Legal<br />
|Veronique=Véronique Kessler<br />
|VeroniqueText=[[Chief Financial and Operating Officer]] since February 2008.<br />
|Rand=Rand Montoya<br />
|RandText=[[Head of Community Giving]] since July 2008.<br />
|Rebecca=Rebecca Handler<br />
|RebeccaText=[[Head of Major Gifts]] since August 2008.<br />
|Sara=Sara Crouse<br />
|SaraText=[[Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations]] since July 2008.<br />
|Patti=Patti Melton<br />
|PattiText=[[Personal Assistant to the Executive and Deputy Director]] since July 2008.<br />
|Mike=Mike Godwin<br />
|MikeText=[[General Counsel and Legal Coordinator]] since July 2007.<br />
|Kul=Kul Wadhwa<br />
|KulText=[[Head of Business Development]] since January 2008.<br />
|Erica=Erica Ortega<br />
|EricaText=[[Office Manager]] in the San Francisco office since December 2007 (until September 2008).<br />
|MaryLou=Mary Lou Secoquian<br />
|MaryLouText=accountant since March 2008.<br />
|Anya=Anya Shyrokova<br />
|AnyaText=[[Development Associate]] since August 2008.<br />
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<div>[[Image:Sara Crouse June08.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Sara, June 2008]]<br />
'''Sara Crouse''' is the [[Current staff|Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations]] (since July 2008). Before that, she worked with us for several months in the fundraising area on a contract basis.<br />
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Sara has several years of fundraising experience. She spent the last 5<br />
years in various positions with Cambridge in America: the most recent<br />
as Associate Director of Research. In that role, she identified and<br />
researched donor prospects, worked on cultivation strategy and worked<br />
with volunteer leadership and supporters to advance Major Gifts efforts.<br />
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Prior to Cambridge in America, Sara worked for [[w:RKO Pictures|RKO Pictures]] and<br />
TransPerfect Translations. Sara also worked in special events for the<br />
[[w:Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]] in New York.<br />
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She holds an M.A. from [[w:NYU|NYU]] and a B.A from [[w:Georgetown University|Georgetown University]].</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:2008-2009_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers&diff=31746Archive:2008-2009 Annual Plan Questions and Answers2008-10-29T07:55:21Z<p>GerardM: add a needed space</p>
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<div>*[[Finance report]]<br />
**[[:Image:FY_2008_09_Annual_Plan.PDF |2008/2009 Annual Plan presentation (PDF)]]<br />
**[[2008-2009 Annual Plan Questions and Answers]]<br />
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;'''What's the total budget in this year's annual plan and how does it compare with previous years?'''<br />
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:The total budget for 2008-09 annual plan is $5.9 million. By contrast, the 07-08 budget totaled $4.6 million; the actual amount (estimated) that was spent was $2.9 million. In 06-07, the Foundation spent $2.1 million; in 05-06 it spent $800K; in 04-05 it spent $200K. In general, spending has increased every year, as the projects and the organization have grown.<br />
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;'''The projected budget for the 07-08 annual plan was $4.6 million: what were the actuals?'''<br />
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:Fiscal year 07-08 doesn't end until June 30, so we don't yet know how much was spent in total. However, we can tell you that $2.5 million was spent, as of April 30, 2008. Spending in 07-08 will probably total about $2.9 million.<br />
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;'''Why did the actuals turn out to be so much less than the projected spending?'''<br />
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:The 07-08 annual plan was constructed with very little historical information, and was really a series of “best guesses.” As it turns out, under-spending in some areas was canceled out by overspending in other areas, resulting in a total underspend of $1.7 million. Because the technical budget was under-spent by $1.7 million, once technical under-spending is factored out, the actuals will turn out to have been within 1% of what was budgeted. <br />
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;'''How confident are you this year?'''<br />
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:This year, we have one additional year of data that we didn't have last year, so we are in a better position to make accurate predictions. However, 07-08 was not a typical year (we relocated, and there were lots of staffing changes), which means we are still working with projections and estimates, rather than predictable steady state spending. <br />
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;'''What's the total expected revenue in 08-09, and how does it compare to previous years?'''<br />
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:We project that in 07-08, we will bring in total revenues of $4.6 million. For 08-09, we have set a total revenue target of $7.3 million. We are assuming that we will bring in $3 million via small individual donations, $3 million in large donations (from individuals, corporations and foundations), and $811K from business development initiatives (AKA “earned revenue”), as well as $24K in “other revenue” (mainly interest income) and $500K in in-kind donations. To give some perspective for those numbers: thus far in 2007-08, we have brought in just under $2.2 million in small individual donations, plus $2.1 million in large donations, plus a nominal amount of revenue from business development initiatives.<br />
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;'''Are those targets realistic?'''<br />
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:We think so, yes. We aim to achieve growth in small individual donations, by optimizing and fine-tuning the annual winter fundraiser, and by beginning some e-mail outreach campaigns. We plan to grow major donations by bringing in a Head of Major Gifts, and we will begin the year knowing we will receive $1 million from the Sloan Foundation. And we expect business development revenues to grow fairly significantly, due to the work the Head of Business Development has begun.<br />
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;'''What's the business development target, and how do you plan to reach it?'''<br />
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:The business development target is $811K. Up until now, our Head of Business Development has focused on understanding the existing deals, and developing a strategy for new deals. That strategy will begin to pay off this coming year. Really, $811K is an extremely conservative target for Wikimedia. More funds could be generated, but we intend to focus on business deals that help us achieve our mission-related goals (e.g., disseminating Wikimedia's educational materials off-wiki), rather than simply maximizing revenue.<br />
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;'''What are your other revenue sources, and how will you ensure that money comes in?'''<br />
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:Our primary revenue source is donations from individuals, supplemented by donations from corporations and foundations. We are happy that we have a solid base, via the online fundraiser, of tens of thousands of contributions. The Executive Director and Deputy Director are actively cultivating major individual donors and foundations, and we are also speaking with a few large companies about “in kind” donations of goods or services.<br />
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;'''What's the target for the 08-09 online fundraiser?'''<br />
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:No specific target has yet been set, but it will probably be roughly $2.5 million. We want to bring in $3 million during 08-09, via the online fundraiser and from ongoing small donations during the rest of the year. <br />
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;'''What will you do if you fall short overall?'''<br />
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:We plan to spend $5.9 million, but our revenue targets total $7.3 million. That means we can absorb a revenue shortfall of $1.4 million without needing to cut planned spending (which is already budgeted to be fairly conservative). In the event that we fall short of our targets by more than $1.4 million, we have built into the annual plan a fair amount of room to scale back. For example, we have plans to add additional staff throughout the year, but if we are falling short of our targets we could defer the new hires. We can also tighten spending in a number of simple ways: for example, we could defer hardware purchases, cancel our winter all-staff meeting, scale back staff participation at Wikimania, etc. <br />
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;'''What's the upshot here: how much bigger is this year's budget compared with last year's? Where are you spending more, and why?'''<br />
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:Planned spending totals $5.9 million, which is an increase of $3 million over the 07-08 projected actuals. The single biggest increase is hardware purchases deferred from 07-08, that total $965K. <br />
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:The second-largest increase is $510K for fundraising expenses: this includes three new positions (Head of Major Gifts, Head of Community Giving, and a Development Associate), as well as an allocation for fundraising expenses (technical help with the database, design support, usability and A/B testing money, fundraising related travel, an allocation for events, etc.). <br />
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:Other significant increases include increased hosting costs (+$200K), funding for five new technical staff and contractors (+$375K), strengthening our “program” (mission-related) work by hiring staff for public outreach and partnerships roles, plus a Chief Programs Officer (+$221K), an increase in travel costs (+210K), and a new allocation for staff and volunteer development (+$113K).<br />
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;'''When do you expect you will be hiring the new people?'''<br />
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:We plan to have the fundraising positions and two of the tech positions filled close to the beginning of the fiscal year. The remaining technical positions will be filled in October and February. The program positions will be filled in January. <br />
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;'''Will all the jobs be advertised publicly?'''<br />
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:Yes. Our general practice, with a few rare exceptions, is to [[Job_openings| advertise all jobs]] on the Wikimedia Foundation website. Normally we also advertise on [http://craigslist.org Craigslist], and other job sites. We expect to advertise for all the positions we have opening up in the coming year.<br />
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;'''How much did you spend on travel last year, and how does it compare with the what is budgeted for 08-09?'''<br />
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:Travel, which includes a mix of Board, Advisory Board and staff travel, is estimated to be $325K for 07-08, while the budgeted amount for travel in 08-09 is $535K. <br />
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;'''Why has travel gone up?'''<br />
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:We use lots of non-face-to-face communications methods such as IRC, IM, Skype, etc., but ultimately, we're an international organization, and that is reflected in our travel spending. <br />
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:Mostly, it is simply because we are growing. For example, we plan to bring the remote staff together twice a year for an all-staff meeting; more staff outside San Francisco means higher travel costs for those meetings. Three new board seats will mean increased travel costs for the 3-4 board meetings per year. The increase in travel also reflects that the organization is more systematically approaching fundraising, business development and partnerships than it ever has before.<br />
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:As an international organization supported by a growing network of chapter organizations in many countries, we have committed to subsidizing some costs of travel for the annual meeting of the international chapters. The Chapters Coordinator, needs to travel to spend time with the chapters, and to visit the Wikimania site. <br />
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:It's also important that as many staff members as possible can attend Wikimania: some because it's part of their core job to interact with volunteers, and some because they are new to Wikimedia, and Wikimania can greatly help to orient them to who we are and what we do. <br />
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;'''Why is there a discrepancy in the projected and actual legal budget for last year?'''<br />
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:Ultimately we found that the overall scope of some of our legal priorities, including an investigation into the use of our trademark, was larger than we originally thought. We also had to invest more time and money into systematizing and professionalizing our employment and labor law compliance. Both of these were critical aspects of the Foundation's overall management.<br />
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;'''How much do you plan to spend on Wikimania?'''<br />
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:Wikimania is intended to be self-funding through sponsorships, meaning that the amount of money taken in by the conference, and the amount of money spent on it, should be the same. That does not include the costs of staff, board and advisory board travel to Wikimania. The Wikimedia Foundation absorbs those costs itself, and they are represented in the 08-09 annual plan in the amount of $100K.<br />
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;'''Jimmy travels a lot. How much of his travel is paid for by the Wikimedia Foundation?'''<br />
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:None. Although The Foundation has paid for a very small amount of Jimmy's travel in the past, as part of the upcoming annual plan, he has requested that the Foundation not cover any of his expenses at all.<br />
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;'''What do you plan to spend on the advisory board, and how is it spent?'''<br />
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:The Wikimedia Foundation offers to pay to send advisory board members to Wikimania, although most of those who attend actually pay for themselves. We also pay for the costs of the facilitator for the annual board and advisory board meeting, which is held at Wikimania, and for any other costs associated with that meeting.<br />
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;'''Last year the tech budget was more than half of the overall budget. This year it isn't. Why not?'''<br />
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:Last year, technology represented 55% of the total annual plan, at $2.6 million out of $4.6 million. The actual spend turns out to have been an estimated $900K out of $2.9 million, which is 31% of the total spent. In the 08-09 annual plan, tech spending totals $2.7 million out of $5.9 million, which is 46% of the total. That includes the planned hiring of five new technical staff in 08-09, as well as an allocation for technical contractors. <br />
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;'''What is "staff and volunteer development" funding?'''<br />
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:This is a small amount of money set aside for staff and volunteer development. The staff piece includes funding for staff training and attendance at conferences such as the O'Reilly Velocity conference on web performance and scalability. This is the first time the Foundation's budget has included an allocation for staff development. <br />
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:The "volunteer development" money is an experiment, and if it works we will probably increase the size of allocation in future. It will pay for a variety of small, one-off initiatives - for example, it might be used to pay for printing costs for brochures for a volunteer outreach event. It might subsidize a workshop, or offset small costs for other specific initiatives.<br />
<br />
;'''Why so little for volunteer development?'''<br />
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:The volunteer development fund primarily relates to volunteer organizational work, such as press work, participation through chapters, technical contributions, and so forth. As we are still in the process of developing policies and best practices around volunteer development, we have deliberately kept the overall amount relatively low in this budget, but we hope to scale up these efforts intelligently in the coming years.<br />
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:It's not a new idea. The Wikimedia Foundation has always spent small amounts of money to encourage and reward organizational work by volunteers: The very first fundraising campaign by Wikimedia was accompanied by links to the "Brion Vibber notebook fund," to purchase a new laptop for Brion's technical work. Brion, who is today our Chief Technology Officer, was at the time a volunteer software developer and administrator.<br />
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:In general, enabling and empowering the Wikimedia volunteer communities to thrive is the Wikimedia Foundation's core function, and therefore virtually all spending is related to it.<br />
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;'''What is included for the Board's budget in the Annual Plan?'''<br />
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:The annual plan includes costs for three Board meetings per year (travel and facilitation), other travel costs (e.g., conferences), and an allocation for board development. <br />
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;'''What caused the $60K under-spending in the Board budget from last year?'''<br />
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:The $60K was an annual allocation for Board development separate from costs associated with Board meetings. For example, a Board member traveling to a conference relating to the Foundation's mission would have been been reimbursed against the $60K. The Board did very little travel/activity outside of the Board meetings so this was under-spent.<br />
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;'''What is included in the ED's budget in the Annual Plan?'''<br />
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:The budget of the Executive Director includes the salaries for the Executive Director and Deputy Director, as well as miscellaneous costs including travel, some fundraising expenses, the costs of the two annual all-staff meetings and some other staff development costs, and a budget for consultants and contractors. <br />
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;'''What is included in the Technology budget in the Annual Plan?'''<br />
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:The Technology budget includes salaries for tech staff, an allocation for contractors, and bandwidth and hardware costs. The biggest single allocation (about $1 million) will go to hardware costs such as servers. And $860K will go to hosting costs. The bulk of the remainder is salaries and contractor payments.<br />
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;'''What is included in the Finance & Administration budget in the Annual Plan?'''<br />
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:The Finance & Administration budget includes salaries for all finance and administrative staff; the Chief Financial and Operating Officer, the Accountant, the fundraising staff, the Head of Business Development, the Office Manager, and the Assistant to the ED and DD. It also includes some staff development and staff meeting expenses, the fees for the annual audit, some consultant costs, and some legal fees related to fundraising and employment law.<br />
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;'''What is included in the Programs budget in the Annual Plan?'''<br />
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:The Programs budget includes salaries for the programming staff; the Chief Program Officer, partnerships and public outreach staff, the Chapters Coordinator, the Volunteer Coordinator, and the Head of Communications. It also includes an allocation for volunteer development, funding for public outreach such as the Wikipedia Academies, costs for the annual chapters meeting in April and communication materials such as brochures and promotional products.<br />
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;'''What is included in the Legal budget in the Annual Plan?'''<br />
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:The Legal budget includes the salary expense for our in-house Counsel, business and legal-related costs for business registrations, state-by-state fundraising registrations, domain names, trademark registration and defense, employment and immigration support and external litigation fees.<br />
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;'''What is included in the Wikimania budget in the Annual Plan?'''<br />
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:As mentioned earlier, the Wikimania budget is intended to be self-funding through sponsorships, meaning that the amount of money taken in and the amount of money spent for the conference should be the same, not including the costs of staff, board and advisory board travel to Wikimania. The type of costs included in the self-balancing portion of Wikimania would include the rental of the conference site (meeting rooms, equipment rental), speaker costs and hotels/dorm room/meal costs for the participants.<br />
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[[Category:Questions and Answers]]</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sgardner&diff=21738User:Sgardner2007-08-02T10:52:02Z<p>GerardM: it is so empty without a picture ..</p>
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<div>[[Image:Sue Gardner Headshot A (medium) FULL.jpg|thumb|250px|Ms Sue Gardner]]<br />
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'''Sue Gardner''' is a consultant and special advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation, as of June 2007.<br />
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Gardner is a nonprofit internet executive who was most recently head of CBC.CA, the website of Canada’s national public broadcaster, and that country’s largest and most popular news site. Under her leadership, CBC.CA more than doubled its audience, and won dozens of international awards. Prior to running CBC.CA, Gardner was a journalist for 10 years, producing documentaries and talk programming primarily for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and also for media organizations such as the British Broadcasting Corporation and National Public Radio.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sgardner&diff=21737User:Sgardner2007-08-02T10:51:39Z<p>GerardM: it is so empty without a picture ..</p>
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<div>[[Image:Sue Gardner Headshot A (medium) FULL.jpg|thumb|250px|Ms Sue Gardner<br />
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'''Sue Gardner''' is a consultant and special advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation, as of June 2007.<br />
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Gardner is a nonprofit internet executive who was most recently head of CBC.CA, the website of Canada’s national public broadcaster, and that country’s largest and most popular news site. Under her leadership, CBC.CA more than doubled its audience, and won dozens of international awards. Prior to running CBC.CA, Gardner was a journalist for 10 years, producing documentaries and talk programming primarily for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and also for media organizations such as the British Broadcasting Corporation and National Public Radio.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minutes:2005-11-13&diff=11159Minutes:2005-11-132005-11-27T15:33:45Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<div>''Report by [[User:Tim Shell|Tim Shell]]''<br />
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A meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was held on irc on November 13, 2005. In attendance were Angela Beesley, Michael Davis, Florence Devouard, Tim Shell, and Jimmy Wales.<br />
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The following resolutions were voted upon:<br />
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Next meeting date: sometime after Dec. 3 to be determined in email. Schedules to be forwarded to Wikimedia Foundation office assistant for coordination, and Tim to finalize date as soon as possible.<br />
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Date for fund drive set for:<br />
*Dec 1 - 21; pending approval of CFO<br />
*fundraising meeting to take place before this,<br />
*Daniel Mayer will be in charge, Jimmy to go over details with him<br />
*We will have an open drive with no fixed goal.<br />
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Financial information about the last fiscal year will be published prior to the next fundraising.<br />
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Bank accounts in Europe: We have an account in Belgium. Wikimania money can be transferred from German account to this account. Jimmy to inquire about extending access to Belgium account to Michael and Florence. Some of the money in Belgium account to be wired to Florida bank account.<br />
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Paychex given limited power of attorney in conjunction with their role as Wikimedia Foundation payroll processor.<br />
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Registered agent: Michael Davis authorized to change registered agents.<br />
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Wikimania 2006 conference organizer: Will solicit proposals for professional organizer from the public.<br />
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The following topics were discussed:<br />
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Insurance: forms require we list review/policy procedures for our sites, which may differ from project to project, so clarifying this will be necessary before filing insurance forms. Forms to be copied and sent to Board members for feedback. If the media application takes much longer, Michael will submit the basic business insurance forms first.<br />
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Funding of chapters discussed, review of recent proposal regarding Wikimedia Foundation paying some chapter start-up costs (http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_chapter_start_up). Policy<br />
approved by vote.<br />
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By-laws of Serbia and Montenegro chapter to be reviewed by Florence prior to Board review.<br />
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Wikiversity proposal (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity) not approved, but we will approve it if some changes are made and if the community seems joyful about it, which may or may not require another vote. The board recommend rewriting the proposal to exclude credentials, exclude online-courses and clarify the concept of elearning platform. to be rewritten to exclude credntials and to clarify concept of e-learning. <br />
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Jimmy to meet with Florida attorney soon regarding bylaws changes.<br />
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Jimmy will consult with lawyers regarding trademarks and inform board by email.<br />
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Jimmy will try to extract a standard logo agreement for chapters from lawyers who are allegedly working on this.<br />
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seed wiki: more public discussion needed prior to Board voting on whether it should exist.<br />
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Jimmy to discuss with PR firm, announcement should be coming soon<br />
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Developers have requested $50,000 in additional hardware; this amount was approved, albeit with concerns that this could stretch thin available cash resources.</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=9149User:GerardM2005-07-15T18:56:33Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<small>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Commons] - [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Meta] - [http://nl.wikiwoordenboek.org/wiki/Gebruiker:GerardM nl:WikiWoordenboek] - [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/user:GerardM en:Wiktionary] - [[User:GerardM/Kladblok|Kladblok]]</small><br />
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My name is Gerard, I am from the Netherlands. I am intrested in cacti and succulent plants and have created a database on them. The information is largely based on info from [[IPNI]], ([http://www.ipni.org IPNI website]), created in Microsoft Access and is open source.<br />
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Because of this work I am interested in things like taxonomy. I am interested in ecology, have written some articles about area's that are important like the "Oostvaarderplassen" and the "Gelderse poort". (both are in the GOOGLE top 5). My MO is to have a topic and make sure that it relates to a lot of additional pages; the "Gelderse poort" is about rivers and fish, so I started my native fish project. <br />
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===Projects===<br />
*nl:Wikipedia<br />
**[[:nl:Lijst van zoetwatervissen in de Benelux|Native fish in the sweetwaters of Belgium and the Netherlands]]<br />
**[[:nl:Lijst van natuurlijk hout in de Benelux|Native trees in Belgium and the Netherlands]]<br />
**[[:nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject planten|Project to describe plants in our language, a milestone is currently every 250 new articles]]<br />
*nl:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)<br />
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.<br />
*en:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)<br />
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.<br />
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Please leave any messages on [[User_talk:GerardM|my talk page]] or [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:GerardM&action=edit&section=new leave a new message]. <br><br />
Thanks, Gerard<br />
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====Skype====<br />
I can be found as gerardmeijssen on [[w:Skype|Skype]]. :)<br />
<br />
====Blog====<br />
:[http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/ Blogspot]<br />
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*[[fa:GerardM]] <br />
*[[fr:Utilisateur:GerardMe]] <br />
*[[it:Utente:GerardM]]<br />
*[[nl:Gebruiker:GerardM]]<br />
*[[sv:Användare:GerardM]]</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GerardM&diff=9148User:GerardM2005-07-15T18:18:56Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<small>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Commons] - [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Meta] - [http://nl.wikiwoordenboek.org/wiki/Gebruiker:GerardM nl:WikiWoordenboek] - [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/user:GerardM en:Wiktionary] - [[User:GerardM/Kladblok|Kladblok]]</small><br />
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My name is Gerard, I am from the Netherlands. I am intrested in cacti and succulent plants and have created a database on them. The information is largely based on info from [[IPNI]], ([http://www.ipni.org IPNI website]), created in Microsoft Access and is open source.<br />
<br />
Because of this work I am interested in things like taxonomy. I am interested in ecology, have written some articles about area's that are important like the "Oostvaarderplassen" and the "Gelderse poort". (both are in the GOOGLE top 5). My MO is to have a topic and make sure that it relates to a lot of additional pages; the "Gelderse poort" is about rivers and fish, so I started my native fish project. <br />
<br />
===Projects===<br />
*nl:Wikipedia<br />
**[[:nl:Lijst van zoetwatervissen in de Benelux|Native fish in the sweetwaters of Belgium and the Netherlands]]<br />
**[[:nl:Lijst van natuurlijk hout in de Benelux|Native trees in Belgium and the Netherlands]]<br />
**[[:nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject planten|Project to describe plants in our language, a milestone is currently every 250 new articles]]<br />
*nl:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)<br />
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.<br />
*en:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)<br />
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.<br />
<br />
Please leave any messages on [[User_talk:GerardM|my talk page]] or [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:GerardM&action=edit&section=new leave a new message]. <br><br />
Thanks, Gerard<br />
<br />
====Skype====<br />
I can be found as gerardmeijssen on [[w:Skype|Skype]]. :)<br />
<br><br><br />
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====Blog====<br />
:[http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/ Blogspot]<br />
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*[[da:Bruger:GerardM]]<br />
*[[de:Benutzer:GerardM]] <br />
*[[en:User:GerardM]]<br />
*[[es:Usuario:GerardM]] <br />
*[[fa:GerardM]] <br />
*[[fr:Utilisateur:GerardMe]] <br />
*[[it:Utente:GerardM]]<br />
*[[nl:Gebruiker:GerardM]]<br />
*[[sv:Användare:GerardM]]</div>GerardMhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:OurProjects-multi&diff=8004Template:OurProjects-multi2005-04-29T11:53:21Z<p>GerardM: </p>
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<small>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Commons] - [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Meta] - [http://nl.wikiwoordenboek.org/wiki/Gebruiker:GerardM nl:WikiWoordenboek] - [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/user:GerardM en:Wiktionary] - [[User:GerardM/Kladblok|Kladblok]]</small><br />
<br />
My name is Gerard, I am from the Netherlands. I am intrested in cacti and succulent plants and have created a database on them. The information is largely based on info from [[IPNI]], ([http://www.ipni.org IPNI website]), created in Microsoft Access and is open source.<br />
<br />
Because of this work I am interested in things like taxonomy. I am interested in ecology, have written some articles about area's that are important like the "Oostvaarderplassen" and the "Gelderse poort". (both are in the GOOGLE top 5). My MO is to have a topic and make sure that it relates to a lot of additional pages; the "Gelderse poort" is about rivers and fish, so I started my native fish project. <br />
<br />
===Projects===<br />
*nl:Wikipedia<br />
**[[:nl:Lijst van zoetwatervissen in de Benelux|Native fish in the sweetwaters of Belgium and the Netherlands]]<br />
**[[:nl:Lijst van natuurlijk hout in de Benelux|Native trees in Belgium and the Netherlands]]<br />
**[[:nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject planten|Project to describe plants in our language, a milestone is currently every 250 new articles]]<br />
*nl:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)<br />
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.<br />
*en:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)<br />
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.<br />
<br />
Please leave any messages on [[User_talk:GerardM|my talk page]] or [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:GerardM&action=edit&section=new leave a new message]. <br><br />
Thanks, Gerard<br />
<br />
====Skype====<br />
I can be found as gerardmeijssen on [[w:Skype|Skype]]. :)<br />
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*[[da:Bruger:GerardM]]<br />
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*[[nl:Gebruiker:GerardM]]<br />
*[[sv:Användare:GerardM]]</div>GerardM