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July 2005

  • Wikimedia Board of the Trustees election 2005.
    After two weeks' of voting, from 28 June to 11 July, the Wikimedia Board of the Trustees has seen its two user representatives re-elected with a large margin, in an election involving over 1400 active Wikimedia project contributors. The final results of the 2005 elections to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees are as follows, along with the number of votes received:
    • Angela (Angela Beesley) - 1044
    • Anthere(Florence Nibart-Devouard) - 823
    • Sj (Samuel Klein) - 487
    • Cimon avaro (Jussi-Ville Heiskanen) - 374
    • Arno Lagrange - 306
    • Francis Schonken - 178
    Congratulations to both of the re-elected representatives, and the other candidates, who all made a strong showing and brought many important issues to the forefront.
    The Elections Officials wish to thank everyone who voted in the elections, noting that they found no evidence of fraud after a week's review, and wish the new Board a successful and productive two years. Danny and Datrio

June 2005

  • At the Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, Germany, Wikimedia and the KDE project announced a cooperation.
    Wikimedia will develop an API which will allow developers to integrate Wikimedia content in their programs. In his keynote on the 23rd of June at Linuxtag, Jimbo Wales presented first examples of Wikipedia content integrated in the KDE applications AmaroK and the Wikipedia offline reader Knowledge which is currently developped. Read more... (Elian)
  • Wikimedia Italia, the Italian chapter of Wikimedia Foundation, has been formed on Friday 17th June, 2005,
    in Canino by 18 wikimedians (some photos are avalaible on here).
    The day after they had their first assembly, which confirmed their first board:
  • Wikimedia servers gets a new facility
    On June 7, 2005 (UTC), Wikimedia cluster was moved to another facility, as there would be more space. The newer facility is better designed and in the same city of former one, in Tampa, Florida. Moving had to be done all at once, with all network and servers turned off and moved across the street. It took nearly 11 hours from 07:00 UTC, 03:00 at the local time. Domas Mituzas
  • New appointements on the Foundation team
    On the 25th of june, Jimbo Wales has announced the appointement of the following people on official positions within the Foundation organigram
    • Chief Financial Officer : DanielMayer (renewal)
    • Chief Technical Officer (servers and development): Brion Vibber
    • Hardware Officer: Domas Mituzas
    • Developer Liaison: Jens Frank
    • Chief Research Officer: Erik Möller
    • Grants Coordinator: Danny Wool
    • Press Officer: Elisabeth Bauer
    • Lead Legal co-ordination: Jean-Baptiste Soufron
    As Jimmy Wales best put it, the board encourages these people to work closely with, and even helps to formulate committees within Wikimedia. These appointed positions do not have any special power within any of those groups, but serve as a point of contact to the Board, and to the community, to ensure that information is flowing between all concerned parties within their own fields of xpertise. The appointment is a reflection of the work these people are already doing in these areas, and should not be seen as a disincentive to others to become involved. Florence Devouard

May 2005

  • MediaWiki won first prize at les Trophées du Libre
    On thurdsay, May the 26th, a french event geared towards free software, in the category special php prize created just this year.
    Many people often forget that, backing Wikimedia Foundation's projects, lies m:MediaWiki, an amazing piece of software. Developers's efforts were recognized on that day.
    The Trophées du Libre, 2nd edition this year, gathers people from companies, associations, and also administration. Many people from many different backgrounds, working in or with open source software, sharing ideas, concerns (for instance software patents), solutions. Nicolas Weeger
  • Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects
    Kennisnet and the Wikimedia Foundation are working together as partners. Jimbo will speak about this at the Holland Open. It does involve both content and technical support. For more details see the press release. Gerard Meijssen
  • Wikimedia Commons reaches 100,000 uploads, and receives Ars Electronica mention
    The 100,000th file had been uploaded to our online repository of free images, sounds, and videos, the Wikimedia Commons. The young project received additional encouragement and recognition on Monday in the form of an honorary mention at the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica awards. More details are in the press release. Angela Beesley
  • Wikimedia site down on May 13
    On May's Friday the 13th power supply troubles knocked majority of Wikimedia servers. As all of database servers had dual power supplies, they were the only ones to survive the crash. Though, main network switch, core file server and nearly all web and cache servers failed to function. Proper site recovery took more than one hour, with some resulting side effects (some hardware needs replacement). Domas Mituzas

April 2005

  • U.S. Internal Revenue Service grants 501(c)(3) status to Wikimedia Foundation.
    The Wikimedia Foundation has finally been classified as a public charity and granted 501(c)(3) (tax exempt) status by the IRS. Donations to the Foundation are now tax deductible. We our qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts. The effective date of the exemption is June 20, 2003 (the date on which the Foundation was created) and the status is fully retroactive. Angela Beesley.
  • Wikipedia DVD released
    Directmedia has released a DVD edition of the German Wikipedia (ISBN 3-89853-020-5). The article snapshot was made on March 3 and followed by a short review process. The DVD contains 203,000 articles and thousands of images. The DVD reached the top sales ranking at Amazon shortly after it was announced and the first release sold out within two days. One euro will be donated to Wikimedia for every DVD sold. Both the DVD and the CD-ROM have been released as ISO images for P2P networks and on several FTP servers, encouraging users to share the DVD. Mathias Schindler
  • The Board approves privacy policy.
    The Privacy policy on all Wikimedia projects was approved by the board at the last board meeting. It will be translated in all languages and made visible to users and visitors over the next few weeks. Florence Devouard.
  • Yahoo! supports Wikimedia.
    The Wikimedia Foundation and Yahoo! announced on April 7, 2005 that they have reached an agreement by which Yahoo will provide hosting capacity to Wikimedia.
    Yahoo!'s donation is a gesture of support for the charitable goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and does not imply any ownership of the content. Yahoo! does not expect Wikimedia to host advertisements in return for this support.Florence Devouard. Read the whole of press release
  • Wikimania 2005 is waiting for you.
    Wikimania 2005, The First International Wikimedia Conference will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from 4 August 2005 to 8 August 2005. It will be an insanely good time. All contributors and fans of the Wikimedia projects are encouraged to attend. Find out more at http://wikimania.wikimedia.org Elisabeth Bauer


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