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The [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]], Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of [[w:en:free content|free]], multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these [[:en:wiki|wiki]]-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the [[Our projects|largest collaboratively-edited reference projects]] in the world, including [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], one of the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top 20 most visited] websites.


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'''Wikimania'''<br>
[http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2006], the second annual international Wikimedia conference, will be held August 4–6 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School campus. Both a scientific conference and a community event, Wikimania brings together members of the various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts. It also provides an opportunity for Wikimedians and the general public alike to meet and share ideas about free and open source software, free knowledge initiatives, and wiki projects worldwide.


Wikimedia Chair Jimmy Wales' opening speech is available in [http://www.supload.com/listen?s=SI0OG2vN04i streaming form].


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[[Image:Wikimania05-day3-ward.jpg|right|150 px|Ward at Wikimania (Sj on the left)]] [[Wikimedia Quarto|We]] caught up with the father of the wiki movement before breakfast on an early Oregon morning, while he was recovering from the recent Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference held in Illinois. In between cans of Moxie, we picked his brain about the evolution of wiki, copyright, and the Wikipedia community. Afterward, he came onto IRC to hang out in #wikipedia for a while, where he was duly lauded. See our [[Interview/Ward Cunningham|interview with Ward Cunningham]].


[[Image:LawrenceLessig sml.JPG|100 px|left]] [[Wikimedia Quarto|We]] also tracked down [[w:Lawrence Lessig|Lawrence Lessig]], Stanford law professor, founder and chairman of [[w:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]], and free culturesmith, in a lull at the end of a long December day. In a whirlwind session, he talked to us about copyright, copyleft, barriers to free culture, legal pitfalls for Wikipedia, and fighting the good fight. [[Interview/Larry Lessig|read more]].


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==Quarterly reports==
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<small>Regular reports on various aspects of the Foundation, written by [[m:Official|officers]], [[m:Wikimedia staff|employees]] and active members of the Foundation.</small>

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|| [[Hardware and hosting report|Hardware : Avoiding becoming Lohipedia]] || November 2005
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<small>This is a free area, with reports by various people on various issues :-) For example, a report on Wikinews, or Wikicommons; a text on a new arbitration committee, a wikijunior publication, a new grassroots initiative to develop a project, etc. Please feel free to add participate and add reports yourself, by following the link above.</small>

* How to use or reuse our content : All the projects but one are under the [[w:en:GFDL|GFDL]] Licence: Wikinews is now under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License].
*[[Projects/Wikinews finally decided on a licensing scheme!]]
*[[German DVD/Book release - december 2005]] - December 2005
*Here are some of the [[Our projects|projects]] strengths and highlights, as well as our [[Statistics|latest statistics]].
*[[Projects/An exciting growth!|An exciting growth!]] - August 2005
*[[Projects/Wikinews state report sept 2005|Wikinews state report sept 2005]] - September 2005
*[[Projects/Wikipedia increasingly used as book source|Wikipedia increasingly used as book source]] - September 2005
* Information on prizes and awards are collected in our [[m:Trophy box|Trophy box]].

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"When I visited the offices in March, the walls were bare, the furniture
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The Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]] is the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., and has the power to direct the activities of the Foundation. The Foundation bylaws may be seen at '''[[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]'''.

The Foundation manages '''the [[Budget]], which pays primarily for [[m:Wikimedia servers/hardware orders|computer equipment]] and hosting'''. Other costs include [[m:Wikimedia staff|human resources]] necessary to the running of the Wikimedia projects, though most people are volunteers. This site includes a complete list of '''[[meetings|notes from Board meetings]]'''.

'''[[Privacy policy]]''' : If you browse the Wikimedia project websites, we gather no more information than is typically collected in server logs. If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. You should assume that anything you write will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages, talk pages and other pages on the websites.

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