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<strong style="color: #3f3f6f; display: block">[[Fundraising|And we need your help]].</strong> |
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==About Foundation== |
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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. Wikimedia relies on public donations to meet its goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. |
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. Wikimedia relies on public donations to meet its goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. |
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| ⚫ | The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the 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=2y&size=large&url=wikipedia.org#graph 200 most visited] websites in the world. Other online projects include [http://www.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiktionary], a multilingual dictionary; [http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal Wikibooks], a collection of free content textbooks; [http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquote], a repository of famous quotes; [http://www.wikinews.org Wikinews], a free news source; |
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'''The [[Wikimedia Quarto|Wikimedia Quarto]]'''</center> |
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| ⚫ | The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the 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=2y&size=large&url=wikipedia.org#graph 200 most visited] websites in the world. Other online projects include [http://www.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiktionary], a multilingual dictionary; [http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal Wikibooks], a collection of free content textbooks; [http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquote], a repository of famous quotes; [http://www.wikinews.org Wikinews], a free news source; [http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikisource], a repository for primary source material; and [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons], a repository for images and sound data. |
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<center>'''[[fundraising|How to donate]]'''</center> |
<center>'''[[fundraising|How to donate]]'''</center> |
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The [[m:What we use the money for|primary use of our funds]] is to purchase the computer equipment needed to support these activities.<!-- (see our [[budget/{{CURRENTYEAR}}|{{CURRENTYEAR}} budget]]).--> |
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*[[Wikimedia Board meetings/5 September 2004]] |
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A meeting was held in real life during Rotterdam meeting. Notes are not yet available. |
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==Latest news== |
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* [[Wikimedia Quarto]], Edition Blue is now available in several languages. |
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* [[Local chapters]], March 2005: [[m:Wikimédia France|Wikimédia France]], the french chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, is now officially registered. |
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* [[Finances]], March 2005: The fundraising drive ended with contributions totalling 94,648.70USD, exceeding the goal of 75,000 USD by 26%. Thank you for your generosity. |
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* February 2005: Two circuit breakers activating removed power from the Wikimedia servers and led to loss of all service for several hours, loss of editing ability for most of a day and slowness afterwards. Details in [[Current events#February 2005|Current events]]. |
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* [[Development team|Development]], February 2005: Tim Starling resigns as Developer Liaison to focus on his studies. |
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* [[Benefactors]], January 2005: [http://rlounsbery.org/default.asp Lounsbery Foundation] grants us 40,000 USD. [http://lost-oasis.fr/ Lost Oasis] hosts three of our servers for free in Paris.<!-- |
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* November 2004: [[w:en:Frankfurt|Frankfurt]], Germany will host the first Wikimedia International Conference: Wikimania 2005 from August 4 to 8, 2005. --> |
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