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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 25 most visited websites.

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From the board

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Letters from the Founder and Board of the Wikimedia Foundation.

From the Founder - the latest words from Jimmy Wales, our founder.

Quarterly reports

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Regular reports on various aspects of the Foundation, written by officers, employees and active members of the Foundation.

Report	Last updated
Finances	december 2005
Grants	spring 2005
Legal issues	spring 2005
Software	spring 2005
Hardware : Avoiding becoming Lohipedia	November 2005
Local chapters	september 2005
Press and PR	spring 2005
Research	september 2005

From the projects

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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.

How to use or reuse our content : All the projects but one are under the GFDL Licence: Wikinews is now under 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 projects strengths and highlights, as well as our latest statistics.
An exciting growth! - August 2005
Wikinews state report sept 2005 - September 2005
Wikipedia increasingly used as book source - September 2005
Information on prizes and awards are collected in our Trophy box.

Features

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Meetups

A growing number of conferences were attended by Wikimedians this quarter, both as speakers and as booth-tenders. However, the most visible event of the last months was nevertheless the Wikimania conference, the first international Wikimedia conference, held in August 2005. The next Wikimania city has now been chosen and will be ... Boston!

Wikimania: 2006 | 2005
Community meetups

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Interviews

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 with Ward Cunningham.

We also tracked down Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor, founder and chairman of 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. read more.

Latest news

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See also current events for more information.

Corporate details

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 computer equipment and hosting. Other costs include human resources necessary to the running of the Wikimedia projects, though most people are volunteers. This site includes a complete list of 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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-*[[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].
+* 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].
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