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+== 2012 ==
-{{News-en}}
+{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-12|{{News-en/2012-12}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-11|{{News-en/2012-11}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-10|{{News-en/2012-10}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-09|{{News-en/2012-09}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-08|{{News-en/2012-08}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-07|{{News-en/2012-07}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-06|{{News-en/2012-06}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-05|{{News-en/2012-05}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-04|{{News-en/2012-04}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-03|{{News-en/2012-03}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-02|'''Telenor and the Wikimedia Foundation partner to offer Wikipedia free to mobile customers in Asia and Southeastern Europe'''<br />
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+Up to 135 million Telenor customers in Asia and Southeastern Europe with mobile access can access Wikipedia without incurring data charges.
-'''End of fall fundraising'''<br>
+[[Press releases/Telenor_and_WMF_partner_on_Wikipedia_mobile|Read more]] (28 Feb 2012)
-The Wikimedia fundraising drive ended late Thursday, with the final tally of $243,930 USD, more than 20% over the initial goal. A decline in donations was noticed over the last third week, with relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina in the spotlight, however, donations still came pouring in from all over the world. A minor edit war resulted at some point when the administrators of the english wikipedia [[w:en:MediaWiki_talk:Sitenotice|argued over]] whether linking to the Red Cross or other charities from the fundraising sitenotice was prudent, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  The argument ended when Jimbo Wales removed the links, and ordered other users not to add it back.
+----<!-- {{News-en/2012-02}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-01|'''Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation partner to offer Wikipedia in Africa and the Middle East at no extra cost'''<br />
-The 3 weeks long fundraising drive started on August 19, aiming to pay in particular for the significant [[m:server]] costs, which have risen dramatically recently. Next fundraising should probably be expected at the end of 2005. <small>([[User:Anthere|Florence Devouard]])</small>
+More than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access can access Wikipedia with no data charges.
+[[Press releases/Orange_and_WMF_partner_on_Wikipedia_mobile|Read more]] (24 Jan 2012)
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-'''New Chief Research Officer'''<br />
+'''Statement from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding developments in Washington on SOPA and PIPA'''<br />
-[[w:en:User:Jdforrester|James Forrester]] has been appointed to the position of [[meta:Chief Research Officer|Chief Research Officer]] by Jimmy Wales. The exact nature of the role is in the process of being changed; initial discussions can be found on [[meta:Talk:Official_positions#Rethinking_the_r.C3.B4le_of_Research_Officer|Meta]]. <small>([[User:Angela|Angela Beesley]], 12 October 2005)</small>
+Comments from Sue Gardner in response to developments in Washington this morning.
+[[Press releases/Statement_on_Jan_20_events_in_Washington|Read more]] (20 Jan 2012)
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+'''Wikipedia blackout affirms overwhelming support for free and open Internet'''<br />
-'''New license for Wikinews'''<br>
+Millions "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge" and act to oppose SOPA/PIPA
-The Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License [CC-BY 2.5] was the favored
+[[Press releases/Wikipedia blackout supports free and open internet|Read more]] (18 Jan 2012)
-license in the recent poll at [[meta:Wikinews/Licensure Poll]].
-people supported the license, which was an 82% supporting vote;
-including over 87% of the Wikinewsies who voted.  Many other options had few voters. Of the options with more than 12 voters, the GFDL was supported by 21% of voters, and Wikinews License 0.2 by 60% of its 17 voters (64% of Wikinewsies).
+----
-CC-BY 2.5 has now been agreed upon by the Wikimedia Foundation to
+'''English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA'''<br />
-be the new license for all existing and future versions of Wikinews.
+The Wikipedia community has chosen to protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. [[Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark|Read more]] (16 Jan 2012)
-Any edits made previously remain public domain - only new edits
-will need to be under this Creative Commons License.
-The license can be read at [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ creativecommons.org]
-(that page links to other language versions of the license, and the
-full legal code). <small>([[User:Anthere|Florence Devouard]] - 8 October 2005)</small>
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+'''Wikimedia Foundation Rings In New Year With Record-breaking Fundraiser'''<br />
-'''A very successful fundraising : $243,930 USD raised'''<br>
+This year's annual campaign raised a record-breaking US$20 million from more than one million donors in nearly every country in the world. [[Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation Rings In New Year With Record-breaking Fundraiser|Read more]] (2 Jan 2012)
-The third quarter 2005 fund drive was held from Friday 19 August to Friday 9 September 2005 (2005.08.19 &ndash; 2005.09.09). The primary goal was to raise US$200,000 (<small>[http://finance.yahoo.com/currency?u Yahoo! Currency Converter]</small>) to meet income requirements in the [[Budget/2005|third quarter 2005 budget]]. More information can be found at [[Fund drives/2005/Q3]]. <small>([[User:Anthere|Florence Devouard]])</small>
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-'''New Wikimedia Foundation appointment'''<br>
-Danny Wool has accepted the offer of a job
-at the Wikimedia Foundation to be the Executive Assistant for the
-foundation.  This job will primarily entail removing work from me so
-that I ([[Board of Trustees#Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales|Jimbo Wales]]) can better focus on the parts of my job that I am best at.
+----<!-- {{News-en/2012-01}} -->}}
-Danny has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector and has been our
-(volunteer) grant co-ordinator for some time.  I have worked with Danny
-on many projects and we are an excellent working team with a fine
-personal relationship.
+== 2011 ==
-It is envisioned that Danny's staff role as my assistant will be
+{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-12|{{News-en/2011-12}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-11|'''Brin Wojcicki Foundation Announces $500,000 Grant to Wikimedia'''<br />
-temporary as he comes in and sets up professional systems for our work
+The Brin Wojcicki Foundation has also funded such organizations as the Michael J. Fox Foundation. [[Press releases/Brin Wojcicki Foundation Announces $500,000 Grant to Wikimedia|Read more]] (18 Nov 2011)
-and begins to look for a replacement Executive Assistant (sometime
-within a year, depending on the flow of events) so that he can focus
-more and more over time in writing grant proposals.
+----
-[[meta:Wikimedia_Assistant|This page]] has a very
-cursory look at the position. <small>([[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimmy Wales]]) 19:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)</small>
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-'''Boston and Toronto shortlisted as host cities for Wikimania 2006:'''<br />
-After a long debate from the jury to chose among 4 excellent propositions, namely [[m:Wikimania 2006/Boston|Boston]], [[m:Wikimania 2006/London|London]], [[m:Wikimania 2006/Milano|Milano]] and [[m:Wikimania 2006/Toronto|Toronto]], the shortlist for host cities for [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania 2006]] comprises [[m:Wikimania 2006/Boston|Boston]] in the US and [[m:Wikimania 2006/Toronto|Toronto]] in Canada . The second round of deliberations will elect the host city for the conference in mid-October. <small>([[User:Notafish|Delphine Ménard]]), 5 October 2005</small>
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-'''Database crash'''<br>
-The disc subsystem on ''Adler'', one of the two main database servers, crashed a week ago, decreasing our database power. It has been fixed and re-synced, restoring most of the power. We currently have issues with the other main database server, ''Samuel'', but hope to resolve them soon. Three new database servers have been ordered and should be deployed within two or three weeks. <small>(Domas) 08:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)</small>
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-'''New servers - 15 September 2005'''<br>
-In the past few days, we have set up a few Squid servers on the newly installed Yahoo! cluster in Seoul, South Korea. They have started
-serving requests from several Asian countries last night, as can be seen on [http://noc.wikimedia.org/stats.php our stats] (yellow = yahoo, blue = florida, green = amsterdam, purple = paris)
+'''Wikipedia's Contributors and Authors at the Center of Wikimedia's Eighth Annual Fundraiser'''<br />
-Work is underway to experiment with using the remaining boxes in the Yahoo cluster as apache/mediawiki application servers, to offload the
+The annual fundraiser brings in critical revenue so that Wikipedia and its sister projects can remain freely available to people around the world. Funds raised in this campaign by Wikimedia and its regional chapters will be used to maintain Wikimedia's server infrastructure and improve software, expand global reach, and provide direct support to a global volunteer community. The Foundation's total 2011-12 planned spending is US$28.3 million. [[Press_releases/Wikipedia's_Contributors_and_Authors_at_the_Center_of_Wikimedia's_Eighth_Annual_Fundraiser|Read more]] (16 Nov 2011)
-Florida cluster and make things more redundant. As this will create many complex problems and management overhead, we are not sure if and when
-that situation will be used in production.<small>(Mark Bergsma) 08:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)</small> <br>
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-'''[[m:Chapter Coordinator|Chapter Coordinator]] appointed'''<br />
-To keep in touch with the current local chapters and help the creation of new chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed [[User:Notafish|Delphine Ménard]] as chapter co-ordinator.  The position, defined during a board-local chapters meeting during [[m:Wikimania|Wikimania 2005]], includes the following tasks: working with the Chief Financial Officer on financial matters concerning the chapters, and acting as a liaison between the Foundation Board and local chapters by ensuring information flow.  <small>([[user:Anthere|Florence Devouard]], 14 September 2005)</small>
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-'''[[Fundraising]] drive begins'''<br />
-The Wikimedia Foundation and all its [[our projects|projects]] are growing at a rate faster than we ever dreamed. To meet our [[Budget/2005|needs for this quarter]] alone, the [[Wikimedia needs your help|Wikimedia Foundation needs your help]] to raise $200,000 in our first fundraising drive in six months. See [[Fund drives/2005/Q3]] for feedback. <small>([[User:Angela|Angela Beesley]])</small>
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-'''[[Budget/2005|Budget]] for the third quarter of 2005 released for public scrutiny'''<br>
-Daniel Mayer published the last approved budget on 14th of august. The total amount of the budget is $198,000.00, 63% of this amount being dedicated to [[m:server|hardware]]. The next main expenses are planned for hosting costs (8%), and a financial reserve (10%). The Chief Technical Officer will now be employed full time, and the board is looking for a Hardware assistant as well as an Executive assistant. <small>([[user:Anthere|Anthere]])</small>
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+<!-- {{News-en/2011-11}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-10|'''Indigo Trust awards Wikimedia a Grant for Mobile Improvements'''<br />
-'''Chief Research Officer resigns'''<br />
+Funds will go toward upgrading Wikimedia's mobile platform, which will enable Wikimedia to better reach the millions of people in the developing world and low-income communities everywhere. [[Press releases/Indigo Trust awards Wikimedia a Grant for Mobile Improvements|Read more]] (14 Oct 2011)
-[[w:User:Eloquence|Erik Möller]], the Chief Research Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation has submitted his [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-August/003916.html resignation] to the Board, stating that fruitful collaboration is no longer possible due to personal differences and a fundamental disagreement about the nature and scope of the role. <small>([[User:Angela|Angela Beesley]])</small>
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+<!-- {{News-en/2011-10}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-09|'''Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for Technology Improvements'''<br />
-'''Wikimania 2005: The First International Wikimedia Conference'''<br />
+Grant will fund major investments in the technology infrastructure that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects.
-Wikimania 2005 was held between August 4 and August 8. This was the First International Wikimedia Conference and was attended by around 400 Wikimedians. See the official Wikimania site at [http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/ wikimania.wikimedia.org] for more information. <small>([[User:Angela|Angela Beesley]])</small>
+[[Press_releases/Stanton_Foundation_Awards_Wikimedia_$3.6_Million_for_Technology_Improvements|Read more]] (5 Oct 2011)
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+<!-- {{News-en/2011-09}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-08|'''Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2011-2012 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers'''<br />
+Announcement follows Board meeting at Wikimania, the annual gathering of Wikimedia volunteers in Haifa, Israel.  [[Press releases/August 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2011-2012 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers|Read more]] (3 August 2011)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2011-08}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-07|'''The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation renews $3 million commitment to Wikimedia'''<br />
+Funds will support Wikimedia's strategic plan that focuses on increasing quality, the number and demographic diversity of its editors, and reaching more readers.  [[Press_releases/July_2011_The_Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation_renews_$3_million_commitment_to_Wikimedia|Read more]] (11 July 2011)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2011-07}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-06|{{News-en/2011-06}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-05|{{News-en/2011-05}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-04|{{News-en/2011-04}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-03|{{News-en/2011-03}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-02|'''Wikimedia Foundation selects Watchmouse monitoring service'''<br />
+"Live Health" of Wikipedia and additional websites now posted and updated in real time [[Press_releases/February_2011_Wikimedia_selects_Watchmouse_for_monitoring_services|Read more]] (9 February 2011)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2011-02}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-01|'''Half a Million People Donate to Keep Wikipedia Free'''<br />
+$16 million raised by more than 500,000 individual donations during seventh annual giving campaign.  [[Half_a_Million_People_Donate_to_Keep_Wikipedia_Free|Read more]] (1 January 2011)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2011-01}} -->}}
+== 2010 ==
+{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-12|{{News-en/2010-12}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-11|'''Seventh Annual Campaign to Support Wikipedia Kicks Off '''<br />
+The Wikimedia Foundation ("WMF"), the non-profit behind Wikipedia, today announced the launch of its annual fundraising campaign. This year's goal is to raise $16 million so that Wikipedia and its sister projects can remain freely available to people around the world.  [[Seventh Annual Campaign to Support Wikipedia Kicks Off|Read more]] (15 November 2010)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2010-11}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-10|{{News-en/2010-10}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-09|{{News-en/2010-09}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-08|{{News-en/2010-08}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-07|'''Wikimedia Foundation announces changes to Board of Trustees'''<br />
+Today, at the sixth annual Wikimania Conference, the Wikimedia Foundation announced important changes to the Board of Trustees.
+[[Press room/July 2010 WMF Announces Changes to the Board|Read more]] (9 July 2010)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2010-07}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-06|'''Zack Exley and Barry Newstead join the Wikimedia Foundation executive management team'''<br />
+Barry Newstead will join as Chief Global Development Officer (CGDO), and Zack Exley will join as Chief Community Officer (CCO). Both are new positions, hired to fill out Wikimedia's senior team as it prepares to launch its new strategy, which calls for growing readership and new editors, particularly in the Global South. [[Press_releases/June_2010_Wikimedia_Foundation_appoints_new_CCO_and_CGDO|Read more]] (10 June 2010)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2010-06}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-05|'''Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia'''<br />
+A new project designed to improve the quality of public policy-related articles on Wikipedia has been announced. It is the first time the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a project designed to systematically increase the quality of articles in a particular topic area. [[Press releases/May_2010_Wikimedia_Foundation_will_engage_academic_experts_and_students_to_improve_public_policy_information|Read more]] (11 May 2010)
+----
+'''Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Jing Wang and Mimi Ito to its Advisory Board'''<br />
+The Wikimedia Foundation appointed two new members to its Advisory Board:  Mimi Ito and Jing Wang. Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on new media use among young people. Jing Wang is an author and professor of Chinese cultural studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons China Mainland. [[Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Appoints_Jing_Wang_and_Mimi_Ito_May_2010|Read more]] (11 May 2010)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2010-05}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-04|'''Indian Journalist and film-maker Bishakha Datta joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees'''<br />
+The Wikimedia Foundation today announced that Indian journalist, filmmaker and non-profit leader Bishakha Datta has joined its Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is the governing body that oversees the Wikimedia Foundation, the U.S.-based non-profit that operates Wikipedia. [[Press releases/Bishakha Datta to join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees|Read more]] (5 April 2010)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2010-04}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-03|{{News-en/2010-03}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-02|'''Wikimedia Foundation announces $2 million grant from Google'''<br />
+Donation will support capacity investments in Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.
+[[Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation announces $2 million grant from Google|Read more]] (17 February 2010)
+----
+'''Telefónica and Wikimedia Foundation Partner to Advance Learning and Increase Access to Free Knowledge'''<br />
+Strategic partnership will improve access to Wikimedia educational and informational content in Latin America and Europe.
+[[Press_releases/Telefonica_and_Wikimedia_partner_February_2010|Read more]] (1 February 2010)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2010-02}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-01|'''Wikimedia Foundation Hires Danese Cooper as Chief Technical Officer'''<br />
+The Wikimedia Foundation today announced that it has hired open source evangelist and experienced technology manager Danese Cooper as CTO.
+[[Press_releases/Danese_Cooper_joins_Wikimedia_as_CTO|Read more]] (28 January 2010)
+----
+'''Wikipedia Annual Fundraiser Goal Supported by Record Number of Donors'''<br />
+Over US$8 Million Raised by 230,000 donors in Campaign to Protect Wikipedia.
+[[Press releases/2009 Fundraiser Closing Release|Read more]] (5 January 2010)
+----
+<!-- {{News-en/2010-01}} -->}}
+*''News before 2010 may be found on [[past events]].''
+== Other news ==
-*''News before July 2005 are found on [[past events]].''
+These news are maintained by volunteers on an independent basis.
-==Other news==
+* [[:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], weekly news by English Wikipedia based volunteers.
-*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l announce-l], home of the "Wikizine" e-mail newsletter.
-*[[meta:Wikimedia News|Wikimedia News]]. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
+* [[meta:Wikimedia News|Wikimedia News]]. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
-*[[meta:Goings-on|Goings-on]]. More cross-project news.
+* [[meta:Goings-on|Goings-on]]. More cross-project news.
-*[http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log Server admin log]. Technical software/hardware news.
+* [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log Server admin log]. Technical software/hardware news.
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