The difference between the Wikimedia Foundation and a normal organization is that, with a small number of staff, we're providing the huge infrastructure for one of the world's top ten sites in terms of access numbers.
The Signpost publishes stories relating to the Wikipedia community, the Wikimedia Foundation, and other Wikipedia-related projects,[8][9][57][58] and is provided free of charge.
To avoid confusion, do not use the Wikimedia logos in the background, as your profile image, or in the header of your blog, in the name of your blog, or in your social media username.
The current version of the Wikimedia Terms of Use explains that a URL may be used for attribution for wiki pages with a large number of authors, and 4.0 adds clarity to the existing explanation.
Jimmy Wales, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation, said that"OLPC's mission goes hand in hand with our goal of distributing encyclopedic knowledge, free of charge, to every person in the world.
Its original mandate included coordination of the development of Wikimedia chapters- which at the time were at an early stage of organisation-, as well as facilitating communication among the chapters and between chapters and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikisource- The Free Library- is a Wikimedia Foundation project to create a growing free content library of source texts, as well as translations of source texts in any language.
In March 2017, OCLC announced that they were hiring Monika Sengul-Jones as a Wikipedian-in-Residence, a position funded by a project grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, to facilitate their Wikipedia+ Libraries: Better Together project.
Considering the global prevalence of the Wikimedia movement and the availability of the Wikimedia projects in almost 300 languages, there are multiple opportunities for starting projects that can contribute to the goal of the WikiSYL initiative.
In addition to the many interesting conversations and the huge amount of participant interest, my personal highlight was my birthday serenade sung to me by the Wikipedians and Katherine Maher- the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
When a Wikimedia Foundation tool is governed by an alternative privacy policy, the page where the tool may be downloaded or enabled will include a link to that policy.
The Wikimedia Foundation has already been accepting BTC since 2014 via Coinbase but recently switched payment processors to BitPay and used this opportunity to expand into accepting BCH.
Wikimania 2009 will be attended by important representatives of Wikimedia and free culture, with special emphasis on the academic aspect of the projects.
Inside are articles about the latest Wikimedia initiatives, the thoughts and activities of our Board of Trustees, and words from our founder, Jimmy Wales.
For clarity, other organizations, such as local Wikimedia chapters and associations, that may share in the same mission are nevertheless legally independent and separate from the Wikimedia Foundation and have no responsibility for the operations of the website or its content.
We, the Wikimedia contributors, communities, and organizations, will advance our world by collecting knowledge that fully represents human diversity, and by building the services and structures that enable others to do the same.
In July 2008, user Ral315 wrote about transparency for The Signpost, acknowledging that at the request of the Wikimedia Foundation, the newspaper had decided not to publish an article about a pending legal case against the foundation.
We seek gender, geographic and linguistic diversity on the committee, as well as experience with diverse roles within the Wikimedia movement(e.g. content contributors, program leaders, user group leaders, functionaries, chapter board members).
In 2017, the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation adopted a resolution as a result of this initiative, making a commitment to minimize the Foundation's overall environmental impact, especially around servers, operations, travel, offices, and other procurement and through using green energy.
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