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<div>[[Image:James Owen May 2009.jpg|thumb|200px|James Owen, Executive Assistant]]<br />
'''James Owen''' has been [[Staff|Executive Assistant]] to the Executive and Deputy Directors of the Wikimedia Foundation since March 2009. His position also holds responsibilities for managing and coordinating with the Foundation's Board of Trustees, and Advisory Board. <br />
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Prior to joining the Foundation, James worked with a variety of small and large non-profit organizations, including most recently the [[w:Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<br />
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* By e-mail at jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org<br />
* In the office at (415) 839 6885 x 604<br />
* Mobile- (415) 509-5444<br />
* AIM: jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org<br />
* His Username on the Wikimedia projects is James Owen<br />
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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, currently studying 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 />
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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 />
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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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I think that it's safe to assume that editors here know how to log in without the aid of a "log in" link at the top. I think that it would make the site look a lot cleaner if we CSS-ed out the login link. This can be done, and still allow logged in users to keep the user tools. [[User:Thunderhead|Thunderhead]] 04:24, 8 September 2008 (UTC)</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policy:Privacy_policy&diff=27414Policy:Privacy policy2008-06-05T05:11:25Z<p>Thunderhead: fixing link in example log</p>
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== Summary ==<br />
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If you only read the Wikimedia project websites, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.<br />
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If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are '''publishing''' every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages and talk pages. Some limited exceptions are described below.<br />
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==Publishing on the wiki and public data ==<br />
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Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see [[#Private logging|private logging]] below).<br />
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When you edit any page in the wiki, '''you are publishing a document'''. This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit as its author.<br />
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=== Identification of an author ===<br />
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When you publish a page in the wiki, you may be logged in or not.<br />
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If you are logged in, you will be identified by your user name. This may be your real name if you so choose, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account.<br />
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If you have not logged in, you will be identified by your network IP address. This is a series of four numbers which identifies the Internet address from which you are contacting the wiki. Depending on your connection, this number may be traceable only to a large Internet service provider, or specifically to your school, place of business, or home. It may be possible that the origin of this IP address could be used in conjunction with any interests you express implicitly or explicitly by editing articles to identify you even by private individuals. <br />
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It may be either difficult or easy for a motivated individual to connect your network IP address with your real-life identity. Therefore if you are very concerned about privacy, you may wish to log in and publish under a pseudonym. <br />
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When using a pseudonym, your IP address will not be available to the public except in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a wiki page by you or by another user with the same IP address. In all cases, your IP address will be stored on the wiki servers and can be seen by Wikimedia's server administrators and by users who have been granted "[[meta:CheckUser|CheckUser]]" access. Your IP address, and its connection to any usernames that share it may be released under certain circumstances (see below).<br />
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If you use a company mail server from home or telecommute and use a DSL or cable Internet connection, it is likely to be very easy for your employer to identify your IP address and find all of your IP based Wikimedia project contributions. Using a user name is a better way of preserving your privacy in this situation. However, remember to log out or disconnect yourself after each session using a pseudonym on a shared computer, to avoid allowing others to use your identity.<br />
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=== Cookies ===<br />
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The wiki will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) whenever you visit the site. If you do not intend to ever log in, you may deny this cookie, but you cannot log in without it. It will be deleted when you close your browser session.<br />
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More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit. These last up to 30 days. You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your username to future users of the machine. (If so, clear the browser cache as well.)<br />
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=== Passwords ===<br />
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Many aspects of the Wikimedia projects' community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a history of valued contributions. User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history. All users are encouraged to select strong passwords and to never share them. No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.<br />
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== Private logging ==<br />
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Every time you visit a web page, you send a lot of information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using. It is not the intention of the Wikimedia projects to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.<br />
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These logs are used to produce the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics site statistics pages]; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks.<br />
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Here's a sample of what's logged for one page view:<br />
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64.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000]<br />
"GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084<br />
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump"<br />
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"<br />
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Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site. IP addresses of users, derived either from those logs or from records in the database are frequently used to correlate usernames and network addresses of edits in investigating abuse of the wiki, including the suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruption of the wiki.<br />
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=== Policy on release of data derived from page logs ===<br />
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It is the policy of Wikimedia that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database via the CheckUser feature, may be released by the system administrators or users with CheckUser access, in the following situations:<br />
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# In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement<br />
# With permission of the affected user<br />
# To the chair of Wikimedia Foundation, his/her legal counsel, or his/her designee, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.<br />
# Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.<br />
# Where the user has been vandalising articles or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers<br />
# Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the Wikimedia Foundation, its users or the public.<!-- this line borrowed from Google--><br />
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Wikimedia policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.<br />
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== Sharing information with third parties ==<br />
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Except where otherwise specified, all text added to Wikimedia projects is available for reuse under the terms of the GFDL, except for Wikinews, where the text is available under a Creative Commons License.<br />
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Wikimedia will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information.<br />
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==Security of information==<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information may be available to anyone with access to the servers. A partial list of those people can be found in the [[m:developers|developers]] list.<br />
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== E-mail, mailing lists and IRC==<br />
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=== E-mail ===<br />
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You may provide your e-mail address in your Preferences and enable other logged-in users to send email to you through the wiki. Your address will not be revealed to them unless you respond, or possibly if the email bounces. The email address may be used by the Wikimedia Foundation to communicate with users on a wider scale.<br />
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If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it. However, you may contact one of the Wikimedia server administrators to enter a new mail address in your preferences.<br />
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You can remove your email address from your preferences at any time to prevent it being used.<br />
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=== Mailing lists===<br />
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If you subscribe to one of the project [http://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailing lists], your address will be exposed to any other subscriber. The list archives of most of Wikimedia's mailing lists are public, and your address may find itself quoted in messages. The list archives are also archived by Gmane and other services. Mails are usually not deleted or modified, but it may be done in extreme cases.<br />
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=== Information email addresses ===<br />
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Some email addresses (see below) may forward mail to a team of volunteers trusted by the Foundation to use a ticket system such as OTRS to view them and answer them. Mail sent to the system is not publicly visible, but is visible to this group of Wikimedia volunteers. By sending a mail to one of these addresses, your address may become public within this group. The ticket system team may discuss the contents of your mail with other contributors in order to best answer your query.<br />
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Addresses that direct to the ticket system system include:<br />
*info-de AT wikipedia DOT org<br />
*info-en AT wikipedia DOT org<br />
*info-es AT wikipedia DOT org<br />
*info-fr AT wikipedia DOT org<br />
*info-it AT wikipedia DOT org<br />
*info-nl AT wikipedia DOT org<br />
*info-pl AT wikipedia DOT org<br />
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Mail to board members' private addresses may also be forwarded to the OTRS team.<br />
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=== IRC ===<br />
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[[m:IRC channels|IRC channels]] are not officially part of Wikimedia proper. By participating in an IRC channel, your IP address may be exposed to other participants. Different channels have different policies on whether logs may be published. <br />
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== User data ==<br />
Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available via "user contributions" lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.<br />
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=== Removal of user accounts ===<br />
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Once created, user accounts will not be removed. It may be possible for a username to be changed (depending on the policies of your local wiki). The Wikimedia Foundation does not guarantee that a name will be changed on request. <br />
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Whether specific user information is deleted is dependant on the deletion policies of the project that contains the information.<br />
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== Deletion of content ==<br />
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Removing text from Wikimedia projects does not permanently delete it. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any user with "administrator" access on the wiki, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Information can be permanently deleted by those people with access to the servers, but there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action.<br />
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''See also [[policies]]''<br />
== Passed resolutions 2008 ==<br />
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=== May 2008 ===<br />
* <small>2008-05&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of Wikimedia Russia|Approval of Wikimedia Russia]]<br />
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===April 2008===<br />
* <small>2008-04&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Bylaws amendments and board structure|Bylaws amendments and board structure]]<br />
* <small>2008-04&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of December 2007 Minutes|Approval of December 2007 Minutes]]<br />
* <small>2008-04&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of March 2008 Minutes|Approval of March 2008 Minutes]]<br />
* <small>2008-04&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:New Trustee Appointment April 2008|New Trustee Appointment April 2008]]<br />
* <small>2008-04&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Data Retention Policy|Data Retention Policy]]<br />
* <small>2008-04&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Privacy policy update April 2008|Privacy policy update April 2008]]<br />
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===March 2008===<br />
* <small>2008-03&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Election Committee Officers - March 2008|Election Committee Officers - March 2008]]<br />
* <small>2008-03&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of Wikimedia Hong Kong|Approval of Wikimedia Hong Kong]]<br />
* <small>2008-03&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Secretary, March 2008|Secretary, March 2008]]<br />
* <small>2008-03&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of Wikimedia Australia|Approval of Wikimedia Australia]]<br />
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===February 2008===<br />
* <small>2008-02&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of Wikimedia Austria|Approval of Wikimedia Austria]]<br />
* <small>2008-02&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of Wikimedia Czech Republic|Approval of Wikimedia Czech Republic]]<br />
* <small>2008-02&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Financial statements June 2006-2007|Financial statements June 2006-2007]]<br />
* <small>2008-02&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> Board Membership - January 2008 ([http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vote:_board_membership_-_january_08 not public])<br />
* <small>2008-02&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Credit Card Usage Policy|Credit Card Usage Policy]] <br />
* <small>2008-02-04:</small> [[Resolution:Executive Director Job Description|Executive Director Job Description]]<br />
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=== January 2008 ===<br />
* <small>2008-01&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Update of Gift Policy - January 2008|Update of Gift Policy - January 2008]]<br />
* <small>2008-01-04:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters committee membership - December 2007|Chapters committee membership - December 2007]]<br />
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== Passed resolutions 2007 ==<br />
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===December 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-12-22:</small> [[Resolution:Board expansion - December 2007|Board expansion - December 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-12-11:</small> [[Resolution:Cape Town Open Education Declaration|Cape Town Open Education Declaration]]<br />
* <small>2007-12-11:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of Wikimedia Sverige|Approval of Wikimedia Sverige]]<br />
* <small>2007-12-11:</small> [[Resolution:Approval of Wikimedia Argentina|Approval of Wikimedia Argentina]]<br />
* <small>2007-12-11:</small> [[Resolution:Minutes approval October 2007|Minutes approval October 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-12-01:</small> [[Resolution:License update|License update]]<br />
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===November 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-11-26:</small> [[Resolution:Appointment of Sue Gardner as ED|Appointment of Sue Gardner as ED]]<br />
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=== October 2007 ===<br />
* <small>2007-10-07:</small> [[Resolution:Executive Secretary term 2007-2008|Executive Secretary term 2007-2008]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-07:</small> [[Resolution:Board Vice Chair term 2008-2009|Board Vice Chair term 2008-2009]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-07:</small> [[Resolution:Board Chair term 2007-2008|Board Chair term 2007-2008]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-07:</small> [[Resolution:Jan-Bart de Vreede reappointment|Jan-Bart de Vreede reappointment]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-07:</small> [[Resolution:Jimmy Wales reappointment|Jimmy Wales reappointment]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-06:</small> [[Resolution:Budget approval 2007|Budget approval 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-06:</small> [[Resolution:Donor privacy policy|Donor privacy policy]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-06:</small> [[Resolution:Code of conduct|Code of conduct]]<br />
* <small>2007-10-06:</small> [[Resolution:Travel approvals policy|Travel approvals policy]]<br />
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===September 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-09-12:</small> [[Resolution:Greenspun illustration project|Greenspun illustration project]]<br />
* <small>2007-09-04:</small> [[Resolution:Whistleblower policy, update August 2007|Whistleblower policy, update August 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-09-03:</small> [[Resolution:Minutes approval June 2007|Minutes approval June 2007]]<br />
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===July 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-07-12:</small> [[Resolution:Replacement Board member 1 2007|Replacement Board member 1 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-07-12:</small> [[Resolution:Replacement Board member 2 2007|Replacement Board member 2 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-07-12:</small> [[Resolution:Replacement Board member 3 2007|Replacement Board member 3 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-07-12:</small> [[Resolution:Board Elections 2007|Board Elections 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-07-05:</small> [[Resolution:Management Consultant|Management Consultant]]<br />
* <small>2007-07-05:</small> [[Resolution:Travel Policy|Travel Policy]]<br />
* <small>2007-07-04:</small> Carolyn Doran ([http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Carolyn_Doran not public])<br />
* <small>2007-07-04:</small> [[Resolution:Wikimedia Taiwan|Wikimedia Taiwan]]<br />
* <small>2007-07-01:</small> [[Resolution:Legal Coordinator 2|Legal Coordinator 2]]<br />
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===June 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-06-12:</small> [[Resolution:Minutes approval March 2007|Minutes approval March 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-06-12:</small> [[Resolution:Audit Charter 2|Audit Charter 2]]<br />
* <small>2007-06-12:</small> [[Resolution:Whistleblower policy|Whistleblower policy]]<br />
* <small>2007-06-02:</small> [[Resolution:Access to nonpublic data policy update|Access to nonpublic data policy update]]<br />
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===April 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-04-16:</small> [[Resolution:ED search committee 2|ED search committee 2]]<br />
* <small>2007-04-16:</small> [[Resolution:Access to nonpublic data|Access to nonpublic data]]<br />
* <small>2007-04-11:</small> [[Resolution:Mission and Vision statement|Mission and Vision statement]]<br />
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===March 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-03-23:</small> [[Resolution:Licensing policy|Licensing policy]]<br />
* <small>2007-03-18:</small> [[Resolution:Hardware purchase March 2007|Hardware purchase March 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-03-18:</small> [[Resolution:Volunteer coordinator|Volunteer coordinator]]<br />
* <small>2007-03-18:</small> [[Resolution:Computer technician|Computer technician]]<br />
* <small>2007-03-18:</small> [[Resolution:Legal Coordinator|Legal Coordinator]]<br />
* <small>2007-03-09:</small> [[Resolution:Brad Patrick's resignation|Brad Patrick's resignation]]<br />
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===February 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-02-28:</small> [[Resolution:Requirements and guidelines for future chapters|Requirements and guidelines for future chapters]]<br />
* <small>2007-02-11:</small> [[Resolution:Chief Research Coordinator|Chief Research Coordinator]]<br />
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===January 2007===<br />
* <small>2007-01-31:</small> Legal tasks February March 2007 ([http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Legal_tasks_feb_march_2007 not public])<br />
* <small>2007-01-27:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters coordinator - Delphine Ménard|Chapters coordinator - Delphine Ménard]]<br />
* <small>2007-01-24:</small> [[Resolution:COO - Carolyn Doran|COO - Carolyn Doran]]<br />
* <small>2007-01-24:</small> [[Resolution:ED Search Firm|ED Search Firm]]<br />
* <small>2007-01-14:</small> [[Resolution:Officer elections - January 2007|Officer elections - January 2007]]<br />
* <small>2007-01-12/14:</small> [[Resolution:Gift Policy|Gift Policy]]<br />
* <small>2007-01-12/14:</small> [[Resolution:Audit Committee Jan07|Audit Committee Jan07]]<br />
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== Passed resolutions 2006 ==<br />
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===December 2006===<br />
* <small>2006-12&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:RBC|RBC]]<br />
* <small>2006-12-07:</small> [[Resolution:Bylaws revision|Bylaws revision]]<br />
* <small>2006-12-07:</small> [[Resolution:Board expansion|Board expansion]]<br />
* <small>2006-12-07:</small> [[Resolution:Agreement between chapters and Wikimedia Foundation|Agreement between chapters and Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
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===November 2006===<br />
* <small>2006-12-08:</small> [[Resolution:Redo events committee|Redo events committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-12-08:</small> [[Resolution:ED Search committee|ED Search committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-12-08:</small> [[Retreat 2006 Board actions and outcomes]]<br />
* <small>2006-12-08:</small> [[Resolution:Domain names workgroup|Domain names workgroup]]<br />
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===October 2006===<br />
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* <small>2006-10-21:</small> [[Resolution:Officers election 2006|Officers election 2006]]<br />
* <small>2006-10-07:</small> [[Resolution:Freenode Donation|Freenode Donation]]<br />
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===September 2006===<br />
* <small>2006-09-28:</small> [[Resolution:Hardware Sept-06|Hardware Sept-06]]<br />
* <small>2006-09-25:</small> [[Resolution:Replacement Board member 2006|Replacement Board member 2006]]<br />
* <small>2006-09-25:</small> [[Resolution:Conflict of interest|Conflict of interest]]<br />
* <small>2006-09-21:</small> [[Resolution:Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland|Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland]]<br />
* <small>2006-09-02:</small> [[Resolution:Election officials2|Election officials2]]<br />
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===August 2006===<br />
''A meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was held in person at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on August 5, 2006. In attendance were Angela Beesley, Michael Davis, Florence Devouard, Tim Shell, Jimmy Wales, and Brad Patrick. Minutes of decisions will apparently not be reported. It was decided to organise a board retreat in October 2006.''<br />
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* <small>2006-08-20:</small> [[Resolution:Fundraising committee/Membership|Fundraising committee/Membership]]<br />
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=== July 2006 ===<br />
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* <small>2006-07-31:</small> [[Resolution:Advisory board|Advisory board]]<br />
* <small>2006-07-30:</small> [[Resolution:Wikiversity|Wikiversity]]<br />
* <small>2006-07-24:</small> [[Resolution:Hardware Purchase Jul-06|Hardware Purchase Jul-06]]<br />
* <small>2006-07-23:</small> [[Resolution:Ombudsperson checkuser|Ombudsperson checkuser]]<br />
* <small>2006-07-23:</small> [[Resolution:WiktionaryZ|WiktionaryZ]]<br />
* <small>2006-07-20:</small> [[Resolution:Election officials|Election officials]]<br />
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=== June 2006 ===<br />
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* <small>2006-06-26:</small> [[Resolution:Board election|Board election]]<br />
* <small>2006-06-21:</small> [[Resolution:Danish Wikipedia and DR|Danish Wikipedia and DR]]<br />
* <small>2006-06-20:</small> [[Resolution:Privacy policy update, June 2006|Privacy policy update, June 2006]]<br />
* <small>2006-06-07:</small> [[Resolution:Fundraising committee|Fundraising committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-06-04:</small> [[Resolution:Special Project committee/Scope|Special Project committee/Scope]]<br />
* <small>2006-06-02:</small> [[Resolution:CEO|CEO]]<br />
* <small>2006-06-02:</small> [[Resolution:Hardware Jun-06|Hardware Jun-06]]<br />
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=== May 2006 ===<br />
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* <small>2006-05-26:</small> [[Resolution:OTRS|OTRS]]<br />
* <small>2006-05-24:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters committee/Access to internal|Chapters committee/Access to internal]]<br />
* <small>2006-05-21:</small> [[Resolution:Special Project committee/Members|Special Project committee/Members]]<br />
* <small>2006-05-20:</small> [[Resolution:Communications committee/Scope|Communications committee/Scope]]<br />
* <small>2006-05-20:</small> [[Resolution:Communications committee/Members|Communications committee/Members]]<br />
* <small>2006-05-17:</small> [[Resolution:Foundation wiki accounts|Foundation wiki accounts]]<br />
* <small>2006-05-16:</small> [[Resolution:MarkMonitor|MarkMonitor]]<br />
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=== April 2006 ===<br />
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* <small>2006-04-21:</small> [[Resolution:IDPF Conference|IDPF Conference]]<br />
* <small>2006-04-19:</small> [[Resolution:Auditor selection|Auditor selection]] ([http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Auditor_Selection full resolution not public])<br />
* <small>2006-04-14:</small> [[Resolution:CH Chapter|CH Chapter]]<br />
* <small>2006-04-04:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters committee/Rules of procedure|Chapters committee/Rules of procedure]]<br />
* <small>2006-04-04:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters committee/Scope|Chapters committee/Scope]]<br />
* <small>2006-04-04:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters committee/Delegations|Chapters committee/Delegations]]<br />
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=== March 2006 ===<br />
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* <small>2006-03-22:</small> [[Resolution:Spending Authorization Colo Space|Spending Authorization Colo Space]] ([http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Spending_Authorization_Colo_Space full resolution not public])<br />
* <small>2006-03-21:</small> [[Resolution:Travel costs for chapter meetups Q2 2006|Travel costs for chapter meetups Q2 2006]]<br />
* <small>2006-03-15:</small> [[Resolution:Domain names responsibility|Domain names responsibility]]<br />
* <small>2006-03-14:</small> [[Resolution:MobilED partnership|MobilED partnership]]<br />
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===February 2006===<br />
* <small>2006-02&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;:</small> [[Resolution:Hardware purchase February 2006|Hardware purchase February 2006]]<br />
* <small>2006-02-27:</small> [[Resolution:Consent resolutions|Consent resolutions]]<br />
* <small>2006-02-27:</small> [[Resolution:Additional developer|Additional developer]]<br />
* <small>2006-02-21:</small> [[Resolution:Communications committee creation|Communications committee creation]]<br />
* <small>2006-02-15:</small> Spending authorization PowerMedium ([http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Spending_Authorization_PowerMedium not public])<br />
* <small>2006-02-15:</small> [[Resolution:Special projects committee creation|Special projects committee creation]]<br />
* <small>2006-02-15:</small> Securities account ([http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Securities_Account not public])<br />
* <small>2006-02-04:</small> [[Resolution:MySQL Conference 2006|MySQL Conference 2006]]<br />
* <small>2006-02-04:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters committee creation|Chapters committee creation]]<br />
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===January 2006===<br />
* <small>2006-01-23:</small> [[Resolution:Spending authorization|Spending authorization]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-23:</small> [[Resolution:Office space|Office space]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Financial committee|Financial committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Technical committee|Technical committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Events committee|Events committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Executive committee|Executive committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Communications committee|Communications committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Special projects committee|Special projects committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Board expansion committee|Board expansion committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> Search committee (not public)<br />
* <small>2006-01-15:</small> [[Resolution:Chapters committee|Chapters committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-14:</small> [[Resolution:Insurance committee|Insurance committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-14:</small> [[Resolution:Audit committee|Audit committee]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-14:</small> [[Resolution:Nondiscrimination|Nondiscrimination]]<br />
* <small>2006-01-14:</small> [[Resolution:Trademarks|Trademarks]] (amended 14 January 2006)<br />
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==Understanding resolutions==<br />
<br />
*'''Approve''' means ''the board member voted and this vote was YES''.<br />
*'''Oppose''' means ''the board member voted and this vote was NO''.<br />
*'''Abstain''' means ''the board member voted and this vote was "no opinion". Abstain counts as a vote''.<br />
*'''Missing''' means ''the board member was not present at the board meeting, or did not come to vote on the wiki page". Missing counts as a vote''.<br />
*'''Recuse''' means ''the board member was present, but did not vote because of a declared conflict-of-interest. A recusal does not count as a vote''.<br />
<br />
As of June 2008, the total number of voters is 8. When no board members recuse themselves, a resolution passes with 5 YES votes. When there is a recusal, a resolution passes with 4 YES votes, because the number of voting members is reduced to 7.<br />
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'''See also'''<br />
*[http://www.activefilings.com/resources/content/corporate_actions.htm Corporate Actions]<br />
*[http://www.activefilings.com/resources/content/how_resolutions_work.htm How Resolutions Work]<br />
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==Links==<br />
* [[Resolutions/Archives failed]]<br />
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'''See also'''<br />
* [[Meetings]]<br />
* [[Messages]]<br />
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[[Category:English]]</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Contact_us&diff=27389Contact us2008-06-01T06:42:30Z<p>Thunderhead: IRC and Mailing lists aren't exactly official - noting that they're community discussion mostly</p>
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__NOTOC__<br />
__NOEDITSECTION__</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthere&diff=27388User talk:Anthere2008-06-01T06:35:16Z<p>Thunderhead: clarify</p>
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<div>==joyeux anniversaire florence==<br />
et plein de bonnes choses pour les 365 jours jusqu'au prochain ;D [[User:Alvaro|Alvaro]]<br />
<br />
==No more donations needed?==<br />
Why did you remove "[[Fundraising|And we need your help]]" from the [[Home|home page]]? [[User:Angela|Angela]] 22:16, 18 September 2005 (UTC)<br />
:Since there is already one mention on the main page and one on the bar, I thought it was only there during Fundraising drive. And the Fundraising is over. If we keep it, then we should remove the other link in the page... [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<br />
==relecture==<br />
Salut Florence. J'ai relu [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:News-fr cette page], y apportai quelques modifs mais bloquai sur le deuxième paragraphe ;D que veux-tu dire par ''le logiciel 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition sera mié de la page 'Outils de la Wikipédia anglophone (English Wikipedia Tools).'' ? Surtout, je ne connais pas le verbe '''mier''' ;D byz [[User:Alvaro|Alvaro]]<br />
:Pffft. Et en regardant la version anglaise ? ;-) Réponse [[User Talk:Alvaro|ici]]. [[User:Notafish|notafish]] [[User Talk:Notafish|}<';>]] 12:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)<br />
:j'y avions point pensé ;D Quand je te dis que j'ai pas les neurones d'équerre ! [[User:Alvaro|Alvaro]] 22:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Spaces ==<br />
<br />
Hmm, interesting. I've been wondering why a lot of non-native english speakers do that, for several years now... :) --[[User:Phroziac|Phroziac]] ([[User talk:Phroziac|talk]] 22:51, 4 November 2005 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== The chinese wikinews site is ready to be launched ==<br />
<br />
The chinese wikinews site is ready to be launched. there is a new vote<br />
after a long discussion among the wikipedians on chinse wikipedia<br />
community. the vote page on meta is:<br />
<br />
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote/Zh<br />
<br />
the project has been supported by over 30 people in the past week.<br />
according to the policy, after one week of voting, there is more than<br />
90% of overall agreement, it can be launched immediately.<br />
<br />
so please help us to lauched the project. <br />
<br />
any questions about the detail of this vote, please talk to [[w:zh:user:vipuser|me]]. Thank you very much!--[[User:Vipuser|Vipuser]] 02:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Spring-cleaning ==<br />
<br />
Plop Florence, je te cop/col le message en anglais que j'ai laissé à Angela :<br />
<br />
Hi Angela. I went through the whole list of pages on this wiki and built an [[User:Jd/Inventory]]. By the way, I'm not an admin here so I can't do much of the work I planned on this page. I would like to know if Anthere, you and Michael Snow (the bureaucrats here) would agree to make me admin here so I can maintain the wiki (templates, deletion, bla bla bla and all the nitty-gritty details). Meta needs spring-cleaning too, but it's far more difficult I guess. Lastly, I don't know how to get feedback on the inventory. Should I contact several members, here and/or on meta, or is there an appropriate mailing-list (wikipedia-l is not a good choice I guess).<br />
<br />
I also wrote some notes as I reached some pages: [[User:Jd/Proposal]].<br />
<br />
Thanks :) [[User:Jd|Jd]] 14:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Et félicitations (et courage ;) pour le petit dernier, je ne me souviens plus si je te l'ai dit ^_^<br />
<br />
== TOC ==<br />
<br />
Salut !<br />
<br />
Eh bien cela fait un peu plus de deux semaines que le magazine TOC est dans les presses, merci pour tout le temps que tu as passé avec David Congnard. J'aime beaucoup le dossier qui a été fait.<br />
<br />
Bon vent ! J'espère que tu vas bien.[[User:Pabix|Pabix]] 15:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)<br />
<br />
[[WorkGroup]]<br />
<br />
==Fundraising==<br />
{{tl|fundraising}}<br />
<br />
==Mailing list link==<br />
Hello Anthere. I've updated the old links to the mailing lists<sub>[http://en.wikizine.org/2007/01/year-2007-week-02-number-57.html <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]</sub> on this wiki, except for one you [{{fullurl:Talk:Frequently Asked Questions|diff=16534}} added on 09 December 2006] labelled 'letter of intent'. I can't find the message it probably refers to, and it isn't linked to from elsewhere that might provide more information on the contents. Do you remember which message you were linking to? —<small>[[User talk:Pathoschild/s|Pathoschild]] 05:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)</small><br />
:oh ! It was never written I think :-) Sorry [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<br />
<br />
:: Okay, that makes updating it easier. Thanks. :) —<small>[[User talk:Pathoschild/s|Pathoschild]] 02:49, 23 January 2007 (UTC)</small><br />
<br />
== 10 wishes for 2008 ==<br />
<br />
Hi, Anthere!<br />
What is [[edit:wishes]] link in your [[10 wishes for 2008]] ? Where it should link? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 20:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:hello, NOWHERE. It is a sort of pun. People can edit their own wishes :-) I guess your comment show that it is not self-explanatory... hmmm Thanks [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 12:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
::I do not fully understand how it should appear in the Russian translation ;) May be to remove the link from announcing, in order to facilitate the translations main page ? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 14:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:::Sigh.... just remove the link. Replace [[edit:wishes]] by "wishes". Sigh :-) [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 17:46, 4 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Gendarmerie==<br />
Hello Anthere, I just read your story on foundation-l about the Castle-copyvio and the French Gendarme; too bad it cost you (and him) so much time, but a great story it is :) [[User:Fruggo|Fruggo]] 21:23, 15 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:eh :-) [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 14:59, 17 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Your revert ==<br />
<br />
You [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=R%C3%A9solutions&diff=27016&oldid=25874 reverted] my edit here and didn't even use an edit summary to explain to me why. Can you elaborate here? The page is outdated and, per the agreement of Transcom, we are going to ''replace'' all pages that have not been updated since before August 2007 with {{tl|update needed}} and just add {{tl|update needed}} to the top of the page and hope someone will update it if it was updated ''after'' August 2007. '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 20:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:Lol. I did not "revert" you. I thought I was updating the page, after Teofilo pointed out that he had translated these resolutions, and was asking for additional checks. I did not check the history page, so I had no idea I was reverting you.<br />
::Ahh, sorry, I should've assumed better faith. :-)<br />
:I find the idea of removing *everything* when pages are not updated a bit strange (and rather dismissive of the work done by previous translators).<br />
::The thinking was that pages get so outdated that they are no longer useful (and may end up giving mis-information). For examples, see the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Hoofdpagina&oldid=22203 nl/Nederlands] and [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Pagina_principal%C4%83&oldid=21847 ro/Română] translations of the [[Home]] page.<br />
:First, readers do not find any version of french, even though over a year of resolutions were already translated, so we fail as a service. Second, translators have little idea that a lot of the job has already been done, so could feel that the amount of work to provide is huge.<br />
::Hmm, good point. However, [[Resolutions]] is a strange case because it is one of the few pages that we do not "officially" ask for translation. Other pages are linked to the workspace on Meta-Wiki where the translations can be prepared and where (most of the time) the old translation is to expand.<br />
:It is not as if some information was no more valid (and in this case, it indeed is better removed), but simply some information is missing (which we could very well indicate at the top of the page.<br />
::You are correct for the [[Résolutions]] page.<br />
:Would we blank entirely a wikipedia article because it is not finished ? What were the arguments to decide to remove all unfinished things ? Also, is there an effort to find some editors to try to help finishing the translations till summer 07 ? [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 21:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
::We had a multi-month house-cleaning process outlined and announced on the Translators' mailing list ([[mail:translators-l|translators-l]]), you can see the initial announcement [[mailarchive:translators-l/2008-March/000633.html|here]] and the most recent update [[mailarchive:translators-l/2008-April/000646.html|here]]. '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 22:35, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== [[Resolution:Approval of December 2008 Minutes]] ==<br />
<br />
2008 hasn't happened yet. Moved :-) [[User:Thunderhead|Thunderhead]] 06:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resolution:Approval_of_December_2008_Minutes&diff=27387Resolution:Approval of December 2008 Minutes2008-06-01T06:34:01Z<p>Thunderhead: Resolution:Approval of December 2008 Minutes moved to Resolution:Approval of December 2007 Minutes: December 08 hasn't happened yet</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Resolution:Approval of December 2007 Minutes]]</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resolution:Approval_of_December_2007_Minutes&diff=27386Resolution:Approval of December 2007 Minutes2008-06-01T06:34:01Z<p>Thunderhead: Resolution:Approval of December 2008 Minutes moved to Resolution:Approval of December 2007 Minutes: December 08 hasn't happened yet</p>
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<div>It is hereby resolved that:<br />
<br />
* the Board approves the [http://board.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minutes/December_11%2C_2007&oldid=6762 Board Minutes] from the December 11, 2007 Board meeting.<br />
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<br />
Florence, Jan-Bart, Jimmy, Kat: yes<br />
<br />
Frieda: missing</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthere&diff=27385User talk:Anthere2008-06-01T06:33:50Z<p>Thunderhead: /* Resolutions */ new section</p>
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<div>==joyeux anniversaire florence==<br />
et plein de bonnes choses pour les 365 jours jusqu'au prochain ;D [[User:Alvaro|Alvaro]]<br />
<br />
==No more donations needed?==<br />
Why did you remove "[[Fundraising|And we need your help]]" from the [[Home|home page]]? [[User:Angela|Angela]] 22:16, 18 September 2005 (UTC)<br />
:Since there is already one mention on the main page and one on the bar, I thought it was only there during Fundraising drive. And the Fundraising is over. If we keep it, then we should remove the other link in the page... [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<br />
==relecture==<br />
Salut Florence. J'ai relu [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:News-fr cette page], y apportai quelques modifs mais bloquai sur le deuxième paragraphe ;D que veux-tu dire par ''le logiciel 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition sera mié de la page 'Outils de la Wikipédia anglophone (English Wikipedia Tools).'' ? Surtout, je ne connais pas le verbe '''mier''' ;D byz [[User:Alvaro|Alvaro]]<br />
:Pffft. Et en regardant la version anglaise ? ;-) Réponse [[User Talk:Alvaro|ici]]. [[User:Notafish|notafish]] [[User Talk:Notafish|}<';>]] 12:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)<br />
:j'y avions point pensé ;D Quand je te dis que j'ai pas les neurones d'équerre ! [[User:Alvaro|Alvaro]] 22:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Spaces ==<br />
<br />
Hmm, interesting. I've been wondering why a lot of non-native english speakers do that, for several years now... :) --[[User:Phroziac|Phroziac]] ([[User talk:Phroziac|talk]] 22:51, 4 November 2005 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== The chinese wikinews site is ready to be launched ==<br />
<br />
The chinese wikinews site is ready to be launched. there is a new vote<br />
after a long discussion among the wikipedians on chinse wikipedia<br />
community. the vote page on meta is:<br />
<br />
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote/Zh<br />
<br />
the project has been supported by over 30 people in the past week.<br />
according to the policy, after one week of voting, there is more than<br />
90% of overall agreement, it can be launched immediately.<br />
<br />
so please help us to lauched the project. <br />
<br />
any questions about the detail of this vote, please talk to [[w:zh:user:vipuser|me]]. Thank you very much!--[[User:Vipuser|Vipuser]] 02:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Spring-cleaning ==<br />
<br />
Plop Florence, je te cop/col le message en anglais que j'ai laissé à Angela :<br />
<br />
Hi Angela. I went through the whole list of pages on this wiki and built an [[User:Jd/Inventory]]. By the way, I'm not an admin here so I can't do much of the work I planned on this page. I would like to know if Anthere, you and Michael Snow (the bureaucrats here) would agree to make me admin here so I can maintain the wiki (templates, deletion, bla bla bla and all the nitty-gritty details). Meta needs spring-cleaning too, but it's far more difficult I guess. Lastly, I don't know how to get feedback on the inventory. Should I contact several members, here and/or on meta, or is there an appropriate mailing-list (wikipedia-l is not a good choice I guess).<br />
<br />
I also wrote some notes as I reached some pages: [[User:Jd/Proposal]].<br />
<br />
Thanks :) [[User:Jd|Jd]] 14:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Et félicitations (et courage ;) pour le petit dernier, je ne me souviens plus si je te l'ai dit ^_^<br />
<br />
== TOC ==<br />
<br />
Salut !<br />
<br />
Eh bien cela fait un peu plus de deux semaines que le magazine TOC est dans les presses, merci pour tout le temps que tu as passé avec David Congnard. J'aime beaucoup le dossier qui a été fait.<br />
<br />
Bon vent ! J'espère que tu vas bien.[[User:Pabix|Pabix]] 15:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)<br />
<br />
[[WorkGroup]]<br />
<br />
==Fundraising==<br />
{{tl|fundraising}}<br />
<br />
==Mailing list link==<br />
Hello Anthere. I've updated the old links to the mailing lists<sub>[http://en.wikizine.org/2007/01/year-2007-week-02-number-57.html <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]</sub> on this wiki, except for one you [{{fullurl:Talk:Frequently Asked Questions|diff=16534}} added on 09 December 2006] labelled 'letter of intent'. I can't find the message it probably refers to, and it isn't linked to from elsewhere that might provide more information on the contents. Do you remember which message you were linking to? —<small>[[User talk:Pathoschild/s|Pathoschild]] 05:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)</small><br />
:oh ! It was never written I think :-) Sorry [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<br />
<br />
:: Okay, that makes updating it easier. Thanks. :) —<small>[[User talk:Pathoschild/s|Pathoschild]] 02:49, 23 January 2007 (UTC)</small><br />
<br />
== 10 wishes for 2008 ==<br />
<br />
Hi, Anthere!<br />
What is [[edit:wishes]] link in your [[10 wishes for 2008]] ? Where it should link? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 20:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:hello, NOWHERE. It is a sort of pun. People can edit their own wishes :-) I guess your comment show that it is not self-explanatory... hmmm Thanks [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 12:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
::I do not fully understand how it should appear in the Russian translation ;) May be to remove the link from announcing, in order to facilitate the translations main page ? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 14:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:::Sigh.... just remove the link. Replace [[edit:wishes]] by "wishes". Sigh :-) [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 17:46, 4 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Gendarmerie==<br />
Hello Anthere, I just read your story on foundation-l about the Castle-copyvio and the French Gendarme; too bad it cost you (and him) so much time, but a great story it is :) [[User:Fruggo|Fruggo]] 21:23, 15 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
:eh :-) [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 14:59, 17 January 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Your revert ==<br />
<br />
You [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=R%C3%A9solutions&diff=27016&oldid=25874 reverted] my edit here and didn't even use an edit summary to explain to me why. Can you elaborate here? The page is outdated and, per the agreement of Transcom, we are going to ''replace'' all pages that have not been updated since before August 2007 with {{tl|update needed}} and just add {{tl|update needed}} to the top of the page and hope someone will update it if it was updated ''after'' August 2007. '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 20:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:Lol. I did not "revert" you. I thought I was updating the page, after Teofilo pointed out that he had translated these resolutions, and was asking for additional checks. I did not check the history page, so I had no idea I was reverting you.<br />
::Ahh, sorry, I should've assumed better faith. :-)<br />
:I find the idea of removing *everything* when pages are not updated a bit strange (and rather dismissive of the work done by previous translators).<br />
::The thinking was that pages get so outdated that they are no longer useful (and may end up giving mis-information). For examples, see the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Hoofdpagina&oldid=22203 nl/Nederlands] and [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Pagina_principal%C4%83&oldid=21847 ro/Română] translations of the [[Home]] page.<br />
:First, readers do not find any version of french, even though over a year of resolutions were already translated, so we fail as a service. Second, translators have little idea that a lot of the job has already been done, so could feel that the amount of work to provide is huge.<br />
::Hmm, good point. However, [[Resolutions]] is a strange case because it is one of the few pages that we do not "officially" ask for translation. Other pages are linked to the workspace on Meta-Wiki where the translations can be prepared and where (most of the time) the old translation is to expand.<br />
:It is not as if some information was no more valid (and in this case, it indeed is better removed), but simply some information is missing (which we could very well indicate at the top of the page.<br />
::You are correct for the [[Résolutions]] page.<br />
:Would we blank entirely a wikipedia article because it is not finished ? What were the arguments to decide to remove all unfinished things ? Also, is there an effort to find some editors to try to help finishing the translations till summer 07 ? [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 21:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
::We had a multi-month house-cleaning process outlined and announced on the Translators' mailing list ([[mail:translators-l|translators-l]]), you can see the initial announcement [[mailarchive:translators-l/2008-March/000633.html|here]] and the most recent update [[mailarchive:translators-l/2008-April/000646.html|here]]. '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 22:35, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Resolutions ==<br />
<br />
2008 hasn't happened yet. Moved :-) [[User:Thunderhead|Thunderhead]] 06:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thunderhead&diff=26563User:Thunderhead2008-04-26T02:41:21Z<p>Thunderhead: </p>
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<div>Hi, everyone! I'm [[n:User:Thunderhead|Thunderhead]]. Here to help however I can.<br />
<br />
== To-Do ==<br />
* (Continuing) Regular maintenance of WMF pages<br />
* Work on [[User:Jd/Inventory]]<br />
<br />
== Need-to-Know ==<br />
* Real Name: '''Dodge Story'''<br />
* Email: '''dodge.story@wikinewsie.org'''</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Home&diff=26363Talk:Home2008-04-13T00:28:52Z<p>Thunderhead: re</p>
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<div>[http://wikimediafoundation.org{{localurl:{{PAGENAME}}|&action=purge}} purge cache]<br />
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<br />
''see [[meta:Wikimedia site feedback|the feedback page]] for discussion of this site''<br />
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== Notes from the editors ==<br />
<br />
There should be a link to the press release on the Home page. [[User:Yann|Yann]] 11:46, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I've increased the width the "about" part of the page occupies to 60% as it contains the most important content, and the amount "below the fold" needed to be reduced. I've also explained the Board on the main page - before that, there was just a single small link to the board page - easily missed. This also provides explanation for the list of board meetings that was already there!<br />
<br />
The text for the board part is an abridged part of [[Board of trustees]] - the translations should already exist.<br />
<br />
I've also moved the Quarto link to below the Latest news section. It was completely out of place in the "About the..." section, and, being the newsletter, belongs rather more by the news section. [[User:Dan|Dan100]] 17:45, 20 August 2005 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== March 03, 2007 by Florence Devouard, Wikimedia Chair ==<br />
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March or may ? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 22:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)<br />
:March I think, since it was posted to the foundation-l at first in March. But it is my guessing. --[[User:Aphaia|Aphaea]] 00:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)<br />
::march. I started another report 2 weeks ago, but it is not cooking well. So I thought of putting this one already, since it was more recent than the previous one. [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<br />
:::Eh-he... Where March - and where are we ? ;) Are need update [[meta:Translation_requests/WMF/Home/source|source for translations]] ? --[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]] 10:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)<br />
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== 15 most visited websites ==<br />
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Shall we change this to "one of the 10 most visited websites"? [[User:Cary Bass|Cary Bass]] 21:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)<br />
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== Columns ==<br />
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Right column (news) is much taller than the left one. This is not a good design, and I propose a section to be added to the left side, or the right column being made a little shorter (by archival of older news, perhaps). [[User:Huji|Huji]] 18:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)<br />
:I got rid of the January news, so they're about the same now. [[User:Thunderhead|Thunderhead]] 00:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thunderhead&diff=26145User:Thunderhead2008-03-31T06:08:45Z<p>Thunderhead: </p>
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== To-Do ==<br />
* (Continuing) Regular maintenance of WMF pages<br />
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The '''Wikimedia Foundation Inc.''' is the parent organization of various [[Our projects|free-content projects]], most notably [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], the award-winning online encyclopedia.<br />
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== What is the mission of the Foundation ? ==<br />
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The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a [[w:en:free content|free content license]] or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.<br />
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In collaboration with a [[Local chapters|network of chapters]], the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki [[our projects|projects]] and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet [[w:en:gratis|free of charge]], in perpetuity.<br />
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See also our [[mission statement]].<br />
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==Are you a charity?==<br />
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Wikimedia is a [[w:en:non-profit|non-profit]] charitable corporation organized under the laws of [[w:en:Florida|Florida]], [[w:en:United States|USA]]. Fully audited, The Wikimedia Foundation is now listed as a charitable organization at [http://www.guidestar.org Guidestar] and <br />
its partner sites. The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. <br />
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<!--Previous forms 990 are available for our organization at [[form 990]]. -->The existence of the Wikimedia Foundation was [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html officially announced] by Wikipedia founder [[Board of Trustees#Jimmy_Wales|Jimmy Wales]] on June 20, 2003. The [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws|bylaws of Wikimedia Foundation Inc.]] are available online.<br />
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==Which projects do you support?==<br />
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WMF supports Wikipedia, the famous online encyclopedia, which was among the 10 most visited websites in the world in mid-2007. From the founding of Wikipedia in January 2001, and the incorporation of the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2003, our growth has been staggering. The English-language Wikipedia, our first project, has expanded from 135,000 articles at the time of incorporation to 1.8 million articles today. Wikipedias in 8 other languages boast over 250,000 articles of their own.<br />
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However, the Foundation also operates several projects beside Wikipedia, such as Wikimedia Commons, the repository of free images and other media, which surpassed 1 million images in November 2006. Wiktionary, the free dictionary, has 8 dictionaries with more than 50,000 entries, three of which have more than 200,000 definitions. Wikisource, an original source repository, is nearing 150,000 pages of content. Wikiquote (quotations), Wikibooks (collaboratively written books), Wikinews (citizen journalism), and Wikiversity (curriculum development) all continue to grow along the same trend line.<br />
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Overall, our projects have more than 7.8 million pages, 2.2 million images, and 5 million registered accounts.<br />
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Wikitravel, Omegawiki and Wikia are separate wikis which are ''not'' managed by the Wikimedia Foundation.<br />
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More information may be found at [[our projects]]. For example, here is a report on the [[Danny Wool on Wikisource|state of Wikisource]].<br />
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==How is the Foundation run? ==<br />
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The Wikimedia Board of Trustees manages the nonprofit organization and supervises the solicitation and disposition of donations. The Board of Trustees is the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]). The Board has the power to direct the activities of the foundation.<br />
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This site includes a complete list of [[meetings|notes from Board meetings]] till the end of 2005.<br />
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In 2006, we switched to a dual system, featuring both meeting minutes (usually not published), and [[resolutions]]. We also set up a collection of [[m:Wikimedia committees|committees]] and hired our first Executive Director, Brad Patrick, in June 2006. Most of the interaction between board members, staff, committee members, developers and community happens online, on our wikis, on mailing lists, and through electronic chat (IRC). We do, however, have face to face opportunities, during [[Wikimania]] (our annual conference), during [[Retreat 2006 Board actions and outcomes|board retreat]]s or real life board meetings.<br />
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We have only one office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where several of our employees are working. All other board members and staff work remotely. The [[current staff|staff]] is eleven people (as of mid-2007); this does not include the many volunteers, from board members to proofreaders. <br />
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At the end of 2006, major changes in the organization took place, including four new board members in three months, change of the chair of the Foundation, setup of an [[Advisory Board|advisory board]], and revised bylaws. <br />
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More information about Foundation activity may be found at<br />
*[[Policies]]<br />
*[[Resolutions]]<br />
*[[Chair letters and appeals]]<br />
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==Who are the members of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees? ==<br />
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In January 2004, Jimmy Wales appointed Tim Shell and Michael Davis to the [[Board of Trustees]] of the Wikimedia Foundation and later made a call for candidates for community representatives [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014868.html]. In June 2004, an election was held for two user representative Board members. Following one month of campaigning and two weeks of online voting, Angela Beesley and Florence Nibart-Devouard were elected to join the board. They were reelected the following year in July 2005.<br />
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In July 2006, Angela Beesley announced her resignation and in September 2006, Erik Möller was elected as her replacement. In October 2006, Florence Devouard became the new chair. In December 2006, the Wikimedia Foundation appointed two new board members, Kat Walsh and Oscar van Dillen. Tim Shell chose to resign from the board and was replaced by Jan-Bart de Vreede, who was appointed vice-chair. In July 2007, an election was held for the expiring terms of Möller, Walsh, and van Dillen. Möller and Walsh both kept their seats, and van Dillen was replaced with Frieda Brioschi. End of 2007, Erik Moeller and Michael Davis left the board, and February 2008, Michael Snow and Domas Mituzas were appointed . <br />
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As of February 2008, the list of board members is<br />
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* Frieda Brioschi<br />
* Florence Devouard (chair)<br />
* Domas Mituzas <br />
* Michael Snow<br />
* Jan-Bart de Vreede (vice chair)<br />
* Jimmy Wales<br />
* Kat Walsh<br />
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Biographies and terms of current board members may be found at [[Board]].<br />
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==How does the Foundation serve its mission?==<br />
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First, the Wikimedia Foundation owns the [[m:Wikimedia servers/hardware orders|Wikimedia servers]] along with the domain names and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and the MediaWiki software. It generally supports all the costs of having the projects up and in working order. Contributors retain the copyright to their own content but must release it under a free license, most commonly the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License], allowing anyone to continue to use it for any purpose, in perpetuity. Through this principle of [[w:free content|free content]], we ensure that our work will never be lost to humankind.<br />
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The Foundation also plays an important innovative part in further developing the projects, connecting people, promoting collaboration with other parties, and so on. In particular, each of [[our projects]] has unique technological requirements, which are met by our small but efficient team of software developers. The highest priority in 2007 will be a renewed focus on quality assurance. This will include mechanisms to identify trusted versions of content such as Wikipedia articles.<br />
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Ensuring success in all endeavors of the Foundation will make it necessary to collaborate with organizations and companies around the planet. Our financial planning includes professional staff who will pursue such strategic partnerships, as well as coordinate our growing network of [[Local chapters|chapter organizations]] in various countries.<br />
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==How is the revenue spent?==<br />
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The majority of WMF expenditures support our programs. Foremost are our expenses for the hardware and bandwidth that keep our websites up and running. <br />
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The single greatest expenditure for WMF is hardware, followed by hosting and bandwidth costs. The WMF has seen its inventory of [[meta:Wikimedia servers|computer hardware]] increase steadily to meet demand. Here is a frequently updated status of this hardware: [[meta:Wikimedia hardware status|Wikimedia hardware status]].<br />
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The main reason for the increase is our growth in traffic. At the end of the year 2006, Comscore listed "Wikipedia Sites" as the number six site in the world, measured by unique visitors (*). Wikipedia, our flagship website, received about 285,000 page views per minute. The WMF is concerned about the capitalization and operational commitments necessary to keep these systems running reliably. These costs alone will exceed $2.5 million in the year 2007.<br/><br />
<small>(*) Excludes traffic from mobile phones, PDAs, and public computers such as Internet cafes.</small><br />
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Domain registration and trademarks are another part of Wikimedia's expenditures. The Foundation already owns some of its active and secondary/tangentially-related [[w:en:domain names|domain names]], while others are still free or already owned. <br />
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Due to the increase in [[current staff|office staff]], administrative costs increased. Overall, however, the allocation of expenses for fundraising is low, due to WMF's reliance on online donations for the majority of its revenue. WMF does not engage in "direct mail" advertising campaigns. Given WMF's presence online, it makes sense to communicate and ask for donations in the same virtual space. To date, it has been effective.<br />
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Costs have been kept low in the past three years, in particular because the largest majority of people helping are volunteers.<br />
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See also: [[Planned Spending Distribution 2007-2008]]<br />
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==Where does the money come from?==<br />
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As of July 2007, Wikimedia is funded primarily through private donations, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The WMF receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. Most of the donations to WMF come from English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia). Over half of these donations are anonymous. Though individual donations are relatively small, their sheer numbers have ensured our success.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation aims to increase revenue by finding alternative means of support, including grants and sponsorship as well as selling WikiReaders (textbook or PDF versions of articles from Wikipedia). There has also been discussion of selling a print version of a significant portion of Wikipedia, such as a "Wikipedia 1.0" project.<br />
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We are presently not using advertising as a source of revenue.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax deductible. See [[deductibility of donations]] for details. Please see our [[fundraising]] page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact Sue Gardner at <tt>sgardner at wikimedia.org</tt>.<br />
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==Do you have audited financial statements?==<br />
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Our financial statements have been audited for fiscal years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Gregory Sharer & Stuart [http://www.gsscpa.com] and are compliant with generally accepted accounting principles.<br />
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Links to the financial statements: [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_2007_fs.pdf Financial statements 2006-2007]<br />
Latest financial information may be found at [[Finance report]].<br />
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== What is Wikia? Is it part of Wikipedia? Is it one of the Wikimedia Foundation projects? ==<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is a registered not-for profit dedicated to the development and promotion of free content. In 2004, Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley founded Wikia, Inc. with the idea of using the same model as the Wikimedia projects to create a vast collection of wikis devoted to content that does not fit the model of any Wikimedia project. Among the initial members of Wikia were Jimmy Wales, Angela Beesley, and Michael Davis, who at the time were three board members of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikia is, however, a completely separate company.<br />
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In some ways Wikia sites are similar to Wikipedia: both offer free content which anyone can edit. In others ways they are different: Wikia tends to have more specialized content, and features fan guides, travel information, how-to wikis, and Uncyclopedia, a popular parody of Wikipedia. Unlike Wikipedia, which is funded by donations, Wikia is funded by investors and by advertising.<br />
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Wikimedia and Wikia have a healthy relationship, and people from one often contribute to the other. They are, however, separate companies with different business models.<br />
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See [[Press releases/Wikia, Inc. is not the commercial counterpart to Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation|Wikia, Inc is not the commercial counterpart to Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation]] for further details on the relationships between Wikia and Wikimedia.<br />
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== What is Wikimania? Is it a Wikimedia project? ==<br />
Wikimania is an annual conference organized by Wikimedia volunteers across the world. While not technically a Wikimedia project, the Foundation sponsors and assists the conference team in promotion, hosting, and financial issues. See [[Wikimania]] for more details about this conference.<br />
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== How can I contact the Foundation? ==<br />
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See the "[[Contact us]]" page for details.<br />
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[[Category:About Wikimedia|*]]<br />
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<div>Resolved that: Elections to the Board of Trustees shall be held in June 2008. An election commission is hereby formed, consisting of two inspectors of the election (as provided in the bylaws) to oversee the conduct of the election. The qualifications of voters, the deadline for nominations, and all other matters related to the conduct of this election are to be determined by the commission, subject to review by the Board.<br />
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The Board appoints Arria Belli, Jon Harald Søby, Kwan Ting Chan (KTC), Mark Ryan, Daniel Bryant, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild), and Philippe Beaudette as inspectors of the election.<br />
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The [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]] is grateful for every donation made to the project, be it time, money or hardware. This page is dedicated to some of the larger donations made by companies and individuals since December 2006 which help to sustain the projects of Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Benefactors.<br />
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While only a select number of donors are listed on this page, every [[fundraising|donation]] to the Wikimedia Foundation helps enrich the quality of our projects. The complete list of donations made since October 2007 is available [http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore_browse here].<br />
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Other donors chose to support our annual conference, [[Wikimania]].<br />
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''Note: All figures are in $US''<br />
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== Major benefactors ([http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore/list?edit%5Bminimum%5D=50000 $50,000 or more]) ==<br />
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* On March 25, 2008, '''The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation''' announced an annual donation of $1 million for three years. They stated that "Wikipedia represents a quantum leap in collecting human knowledge from diverse sources, organizing it without commercial or other bias, and making it freely available to people everywhere." ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|Press release]])<br />
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* On March 24, 2008, '''Vinod and Neeru Khosla''' announced a $500,000 donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, calling Wikipedia "a valuable global education resource." ([[Press Releases/Khosla Gift|Press release]])<br />
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* Special thanks to a '''friend of the Wikimedia Foundation''', who has made a matching donation of $286,000 in stocks, and who has chosen to remain anonymous. (December 2006)<br />
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* The '''Virgin Foundation''', operating under the working name of '''[http://www.virginunite.co.uk/virgin_home.phtml Virgin Unite]''', is the charitable arm of Virgin Group. The "Virgin Unite" campaign was launched in 2004. The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank Virgin Unite for its generosity in matching donations during this fundraiser. (December 2006)<br />
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* A $100,000 donation was made to the Wikimedia Foundation from '''Stephen J. Luczo, Chairman of the Board of Seagate Technology''', on March 19, 2007. This appears to be the largest single donation received from a single individual in the history of the Wikimedia Foundation, not counting matching funds-related donations. (March 2007)<br />
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== Patrons ([http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore/list?edit%5Bminimum%5D=15000 $15,000 to $49,999]) ==<br />
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; [http://www.twosigma.com/ Two Sigma Investments LLC] (December 2006)<br />
: $25,000<br />
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; Jeff Moe (en.wikipedia [[:en:user:jebba|user jebba]])<br />
: Over $20,000 total : $6,666 in one time donations and $11,000 from $1000 [http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/legacy/ongoing/index.php/2005-10-27/detail/ monthly] donations since [http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/legacy/ongoing/index.php/2005-08-24/detail/ July 2005]; $4,096 given in December 2006<br />
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; [http://philip.greenspun.com Philip Greenspun] (August 2007)<br />
: $20,000<br />
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; [http://www.retailmenot.com RetailMeNot.com] (November 2007)<br />
: $20,000<br />
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; Richard E Merit<br />
: $15,000<br />
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; [http://www.cfsv.org/ Community Foundation Silicon Valley], Nicholas Palvesky fund (January 2007)<br />
: $15,000<br />
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== Leading donors ([http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore/list?edit%5Bminimum%5D=5000 $5000 to $14,999]) ==<br />
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; Michael Minor (November 2007)<br />
: $10,000<br />
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; Select Equity Group Foundation (April 2007)<br />
: $10,000<br />
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; The [http://www.charitablegift.org/ Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund] (December 2006)<br />
: $10,000<br />
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; [http://www.edwardtufte.com/ Graphics Press, LLC] (December 2006)<br />
: $10,000 (2*$5,000)<br />
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; Alan Bauer Charitable Gift Fund<br />
: $10,000<br />
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; The [http://www.charitablegift.org/ Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund]<br />
: $10,000<br />
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; [https://www.easymatch.com/google Google Matching Gifts] (May 2007)<br />
: $6,450<br />
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; [http://craigslist.org/ Craigslist, Inc.] (December 2006)<br />
: $5,000<br />
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; Burt and Diana Cutler Family Foundation (December 2006)<br />
: $5,000<br />
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; Mr. William Richley, P.A. (December 2006)<br />
: $5,000<br />
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; The Sims/Mae's Foundation, Inc (December 2006)<br />
: $5,000<br />
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; The Zephyr Charitable Foundation, Inc (December 2006)<br />
: $5,000<br />
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== Sustaining donors ([http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore/list?edit%5Bminimum%5D=1000 $1000 to $4999]) ==<br />
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: [http://www.talkgold.com Kevin Klinekole] (February 2008)<br />
: [http://www.sklatch.net Michael Webb] (January 2008)<br />
: Gary Steinmetz (December 2007)<br />
: Robert D Hall & Ana F Barreto (December 2007)<br />
: Brooke Burgess, Ubermind, Inc. (December 2007)<br />
: RuthAnn Harnisch (December 2007)<br />
: Max Pucher (November 2007)<br />
: Alex Poon (November 2007)<br />
: Max Levchin (November 2007)<br />
: Robert Keeley (November 2007)<br />
: Andrew MacMillan (November 2007)<br />
: Bill Liao (November 2007)<br />
: Tyko Strassen (October 2007)<br />
: [http://schwabcharitable.org/ Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving] (September 2007)<br />
: [http://www.justgive.org/ Just Give] (September 2007)<br />
: Jill Efting (August 2007)<br />
: Joichi Ito (July 2007)<br />
: [http://www.misk.com/ Misk] (July 2007)<br />
: Duc Vu (June 2007)<br />
: [http://www.fizber.com For Sale By Owner] (June 2007) <br />
: Alla Kapralova (May 2007)<br />
: Royce Family Foundation (May 2007)<br />
: [http://www.viaden.com Viaden-Media] (May 2007)<!-- $1000 on 2007-05-10 Dexxia, not yet on fundraising.wikimedia.org --><br />
: Elecia White (May 2007)<br />
: Coutts and Co (April 2007)<br />
: Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund (April 2007)<br />
: [http://www.rbsgc.com RBS Greenwich Capital] (December 2006, April 2007)<br />
: Ms Elaine B Fortowsky (September 2006, February 2007)<br />
: [http://www.gbtco.com/ Greater Bay Trust Company] (February 2007)<br />
: Andreas Maladinski (February 2007)<br />
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: Takao Nakamura (February 2007)<br />
: Peter Flamini (January 2007)<br />
: Bennett Lewis (January 2007)<br />
: Lyons (Januray 2007)<br />
: [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia Wikia, Inc.] (January 2007)<br />
: John Baldridge (December 2006)<br />
: Andrew Bloch (December 2006)<br />
: Bridgewater Associates, Inc (December 2006)<br />
: David Bydeley (December 2006)<br />
: Michael E Chastain (December 2006)<br />
: Eamon Daly (December 2006)<br />
: John Eckstein (December 2006)<br />
: Gary Frisch (December 2006)<br />
: Mr Dominic J Froio (December 2006)<br />
: Hitz Foundation (December 2006)<br />
: Francis Hogle (December 2006)<br />
: Lawler (December 2006)<br />
: [http://lessig.org/ Lawrence Lessig] (December 2006)<br />
: Elon Musk (December 2006)<br />
: Garry Osgood ([http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/legacy/ongoing/index.php/2006-12-17/detail/ December 2006])<br />
<!-- $2000 on 2007-02-01, wm-de --><br />
: Pickar Family Foundation (December 2006)<br />
: Harrity Snyder, LLP (December 2006)<br />
: Michael Webb (December 2006)<br />
: Ali Webster (December 2006)<br />
: Ross Mayfield of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]] ([http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/legacy/ongoing/index.php/2006-12-17/detail/ December 2006])<br />
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== Equipment and Services ==<br />
; [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet] (May 2005 - today)<br />
: Hosting capacity for Wikimedia projects in Amsterdam. (PR: [[Press releases/Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects|EN]], [[Press releases/Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects/Nederlands|NL]])<br />
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; [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo!] (7 April 2005 - today)<br />
: Hosting capacity for Wikimedia projects in Yahoo's Asian facilities. Wikipedia content integrated into French-language Yahoo Search [http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=guatemala&meta=vl%3D shortcuts] as a test project. (PR: [[Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation annonce le soutien de Yahoo!|FR]], [[Press releases/Wikimedia announces Yahoo support|EN]])<br />
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; [http://www.ams-ix.net The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)] (November 2007 - today)<br />
: A free Gigabit Ethernet port for [[w:peering|peering]] in Amsterdam.<br />
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; [http://www.thinklogical.com/ Logical Solutions] (October 2004)<br />
: Donated a [http://www.thinklogical.com/products/sentinel32.html Sentinel32] 32-port secure console server and RJ45 to DB9 adapters.<br />
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|[[User:Alno|Alno]]<br />
| fr, en<br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Alvaro|Alvaro]]<br />
| fr, <small>en</small><br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<br />
| fr, en<br />
| [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Chair]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]]<br />
| en<br />
| Communications Committee member<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Arria Belli|Arria Belli]]<br />
|en, es, fr, <small>it, ca, pt, ru</small><br />
|[[m:Special projects subcommittees/Languages|LangCom]] member<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Astronomo|Astronomo]]<br />
| es, en<br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Bdamokos|Bdamokos]]<br />
| hu,en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]<br />
| en, eo <br />
| [[Current staff|Wikimedia employee, Developer]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Cary Bass|Cary Bass]]<br />
| en, fr<br />
| [[Current staff|Wikimedia employee, Volunteer Coordinator]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Cbrown1023|Cbrown1023]]<br />
| en, es-1<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:CE|CE]]<br />
| nl<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Chaos|Chaos]]<br />
| ar , en , (de)<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Daniel Mayer|Daniel Mayer]]<br />
| en<br />
| former [[m:Chief Financial Officer|Chief Financial Officer]] <br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Danny B.|Danny B.]]<br />
| cs, en, sk, (ru)<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Danutz|Danutz]]<br />
| ro, de, es, en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Datrio|Datrio]]<br />
| pl, en<br />
| [[m:Wikimedia Polska|Executive Secretary of Wikimedia Poland]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:DavidStrauss|David Strauss]]<br />
| en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[user:Effeietsanders|Effeiets]]'''[[w:nl:gebruiker:Effeietsanders|anders]]'''<br />
| nl, en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:ElC|ElC]]<br />
| en, he<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Elian|Elian]]<br />
| de, en, fr <br />
| [[m:Communication committee|Communication committee member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]]<br />
| de, en <br />
| [[Current staff|Wikimedia Deputy Director]], Developer<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Fantasy|Fantasy]]<br />
| de, en, it<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Frank Schulenburg|Frank Schulenburg]]<br />
| de, fr, en<br />
| [[m:Wikimedia Deutschland/Vorstand|Wikimedia Deutschland board member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Frieda|Frieda]]<br />
| it, en<br />
| [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Board Member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Fruggo|Fruggo]]<br />
| nl, en <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Gaillimh|gaillimh]]<br />
| ga, en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:GerardM|GerardM]]<br />
| nl<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Guillom|guillom]]<br />
| fr, en<br />
| [[m:Wikimedia France|Wikimedia France secretary]], former [[m:Communications committee|ComCom]] member, [[m:Marketing|Marketing]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Habj|habj]]<br />
| sv, en <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Hemanshu|Hemanshu]]<br />
| hi, en <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Huji|Huji]]<br />
| fa, en <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Isam|Isam]]<br />
| ar, en <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Jacob.jose|Jacob Jose]]<br />
| ml, en <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart]]<br />
| nl, en<br />
| [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Board member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Jd|Jd]]<br />
| fr, en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Jean-Christophe Chazalette|Jean-Christophe Chazalette]]<br />
| fr, en, es, it, pt <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]]<br />
| en <br />
| [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Chairman Emeritus]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Jon Harald Søby|Jon Harald Søby]]<br />
| nb, nn, en, da, sv, <small>de, es, eo</small><br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Kaganer|Kaganer]]<br />
| ru <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Kurt Jansson|Kurt Jansson]]<br />
| de, en <br />
| [[m:Wikimedia Deutschland/Vorstand|Wikimedia Deutschland Chair]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Lar|Lar]]<br />
| en <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Looxix|Looxix]]<br />
| fr, en <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:M7|M7]]<br />
| it, en, <small>fr, es, pt, de</small><br />
| [[m:Wikimedia Italia|Wikimedia Italia board member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:ManuelGR|ManuelGR]]<br />
| es, en <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:MaxSem|MaxSem]]<br />
| ru, en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Mbimmler|Mbimmler]]<br />
| de, en, fr<br />
| Wikimedia CH president<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Meno25|Meno25]]<br />
| ar, en<br />
|editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Michael Davis|Michael Davis]]<br />
| en <br />
| [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Treasurer]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Mido|Mido]]<br />
| ar,en<br />
|editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:MikkoM|MikkoM]]<br />
| fi, en <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Mschlindwein|Mschlindwein]]<br />
| pt, en, fr <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Notafish|Notafish]]<br />
| fr, en, de<br />
| [[Current staff|Wikimedia employee, chapters coordinator]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Oscar|oscar]]<br />
| nl<br />
| former [[Board of Trustees|Wikimedia Board member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Pabix|Pabix]]<br />
| fr<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Pathoschild|Pathoschild]]<br />
| en, fr<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]]<br />
| en, zh-2<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Phroziac|Phroziac]]<br />
| en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Pyb|Pyb]]<br />
| fr<br />
| [[m:Wikimédia France|Wikimédia France Chair]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:RoseParks|RoseParks]]<br />
| en <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Ryo|Ryo]]<br />
| fr, en, ja<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Sean Whitton|Sean Whitton]]<br />
|en<br />
|editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Snowdog|Snowdog]]<br />
| it, en<br />
| [[m:Wikimedia Italia|Wikimedia Italia Vice-Chair]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Shaihulud|Shaihulud]]<br />
| fr, en <br />
| editor (inactive)<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Shizhao|Shizhao]]<br />
| zh, ru, en <br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Sj|Sj]]<br />
| en <br />
| Special Project Committee member<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Solensean|Solensean]]<br />
| fr, en<br />
| editor (inactive)<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Spangineer|Spangineer]]<br />
| en, es<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Suisui|Suisui]]<br />
| ja, en <br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Tangotango|Tangotango]]<br />
| en, ja<br />
| [[m:Special projects subcommittees/Languages|Langcom]] member<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Thunderhead|Thunderhead]]<br />
| en, de, fr<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Tim Shell|Tim Shell]]<br />
| en <br />
| [[Board of Trustees| former Wikimedia Board member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]]<br />
| en<br />
| Developer<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Timichal|Timichal]]<br />
| cs, en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Timwi|Timwi]]<br />
| de, en<br />
| Developer<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Tipiac|Tipiac]]<br />
| fr, en<br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Tom-|Tom-]]<br />
| en<br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
| [[User:TOR|TOR]]<br />
| pl, en<br />
| [[m:Wikimedia Polska|Wikimedia Poland Chair]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Ugur Basak|Ugur Basak]]<br />
| tr, en<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Vipuser|Vipuser]]<br />
| zh<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Waerth|Waerth]]<br />
| nl, en, de, af, th<br />
| editor<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Walter|Walter]]<br />
| nl<br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Yann|Yann]]<br />
| fr, en<br />
| editor <br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Yuyu|Yuyu]]<br />
| zh, en, fr-2<br />
| [[m:Wikimedia Hong Kong|Deputy President, Wikimedia Hong Kong]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Zanimum|Zanimum]]<br />
| en, ik<br />
| [[m:Communications committee|Communications committee member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Zuirdj|Zuirdj]]<br />
| es, en<br />
| [[m:Communications committee|Communications committee member]]<br />
|}<br />
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==Advisory board==<br />
<br />
{| cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"<br />
|-<br />
|'''Name'''<br />
|'''Languages'''<br />
|'''Position'''<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Angela|Angela]]<br />
| en <br />
| Angela Beesley; [[Board of Trustees|former Wikimedia Board member]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Tatejoris|Tatejoris]]<br />
| en<br />
| Joris Komen<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Esperluette|Esperluette]]<br />
| en<br />
| Erin McKean<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:EthanZ|EthanZ]]<br />
| en<br />
| Ethan Zuckerman<br />
|}<br />
<br />
* [[User:Melissa|Melissa Hagemann]]<br />
* [[User:Aprabhala|Achal Prabhala]]<br />
* [[User:Cshirky|Clay Shirky]]<br />
* [[User:Trevorneilson|Trevor Neilson]]<br />
* [[User:Petersuber|Peter Suber]]<br />
* [[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|Benjamin Mako Hill]]<br />
* [[User:Rmackinnon|Rebecca MacKinnon]]<br />
* [[User:Mkapor|Mitch Kapor]]<br />
* [[User:Danny Hillis|Danny Hillis]]<br />
* [[User:Raoulw|Raoul Weiler]]<br />
* [[User:Jay Rosen|Jay Rosen]]<br />
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[[Category:English]]</div>Thunderheadhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thunderhead&diff=26045User:Thunderhead2008-03-28T08:04:22Z<p>Thunderhead: basic page</p>
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<div>Hi, everyone! I'm [[n:User:Thunderhead|Thunderhead]]. Here to help however I can.<br />
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== To-Do ==<br />
* (Continuing) Regular maintenance of WMF pages</div>Thunderhead