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  Wikimedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The goal of the Wikimedia foundation is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge.
The continued growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent mostly on donations but the Wikimedia Foundation tries to increase its revenue by finding alternative means of funding such as grants and sponsorship.
Wikimedia's bandwidth and power are covered by donations to the project from various companies and individuals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A key motivation behind the setup of a central repository was a desire to reduce duplication of effort across the Wikimedia projects and languages, as the same file had to be uploaded to many different wikis separately before the Commons was created.
The possibility of local uploads still exists, but is meant to be used primarily for material which local project policies allow, but which would not be permitted according to the licensing policy of the Commons, such as fair use content.
As of 2005, the Wikimedia Commons itself does not allow fair use or uploads under non-free licenses, including licenses which restrict commercial use of materials.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia_Commons   (0 words)

  
 Home - Wikimedia Foundation
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.
Wikimedia Foundation board of Trustee will have the final decision over the creation of that new project after the community gave its opinion (a two-thirds majority and board approval is required to start a project beta period).
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.
wikimediafoundation.org   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia Foundation - Meta
Wikimedia relies on public donations to meet its goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world.
The Wikimedia Board of Trustees manages the nonprofit and supervise the disposition and solicitation of nonprofit donations.
A Wikimedia board must exist, by law, to manage the nonprofit and supervise the disposition and solicitation of nonprofit donations.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia   (0 words)

  
 Wikipedia - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Administrators or editors might analyze writing skills or rely on opinions about a contributor to inform decisions when they have no knowledge of the subject of an article, or on a poll of individuals as ill-informed about the subject at hand as they are, themselves.
Elections for the contributor and volunteer positions on the Wikimedia Foundation board were held in June 2004.
Wikimedia Foundation's bylaws allow the founding Bomis partners continued control of the board of trustees.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Wikipedia   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Foundation also manages a memorial collection of articles about the September 11 attacks and the operations of the largely dormant (Click link for more info and facts about Nupedia) Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content).
The Wikimedia Foundation aims to increase revenue by finding alternative means of financing, including (The act of providing a subsidy) grants and sponsorship.
Wikimedia's (A data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel) bandwidth and power are covered by donations to the project from various companies and individuals.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wikimedia.htm   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia - Mac OS X Server FAQ
Wikimedia is a super project of free content wikis and a wiki engine called MediaWiki that runs them.
The name Wikimedia is a portmanteau of wiki and multimedia, although all the Wikimedia projects so far are heavily dominated by one medium: text.
The Wikimedia Foundation (wikimediafoundation.org) is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.
www.macos-x-server.com /wiki/index.php?title=Wikimedia   (0 words)

  
 Our projects - Wikimedia Foundation
All major projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by its users using the MediaWiki software.
Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004, to provide a central repository for free video, images, music, and spoken texts, to be used by all Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia Commons received an honorary mention for Digital Community at the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica awards in May 2005.
wikimediafoundation.org /wiki/Our_projects   (0 words)

  
 Google hosting - Meta
As of June 2005, the Wikimedia Foundation are continuing to talk with Google about creative ways in which they might provide support to the project.
Wikimedia is planning or has recently launched facilities in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Asia, so it would be premature at this juncture to ask Google for something specific when we don't yet have good technical knowledge of what we will need in the coming months following the introduction of these new facilities.
Google is eager to help us, and Wikimedia are eager to accept their help, but the Board wants to be good stewards of donor money, and this requires them to move carefully.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Google_hosting   (0 words)

  
 Main Page - Wikimania
The event was preserved in the proceedings being compiled on Wikibooks, in public images from Wikimania, and in an archive of slides and video of presentations.
The programme included a range of presentations, workshops, and tutorials, aimed at newcomers and oldtimers alike, to give for the first time a concise overview of the current state of research on wikis and free knowledge projects.
A primary goal is to promote the various Wikimedia projects and to help them improve their understanding of one another.
wikimania.wikimedia.org   (0 words)

  
 Fundraising - Wikimedia Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Wikimedia Foundation also requires funding to continue its pioneering role in exploring the field of collaborative content creation.
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation, is registered as a charitable organization with the State of Florida's Division of Consumer Services, a division of the State of Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and may lawfully solicit donations under Florida law.
However, Wikimedia is still in the process of obtaining official tax exempt status from the United States Internal Revenue Service.
wikimedia.org /fundraising   (0 words)

  
 [Wikipedia-l] Proposal: commons.wikimedia.org
This will have to be a community effort among developers, sourcebergers, wikibookers, wikipedians etc. I believe we can launch the Wikimedia Commons within about 3 months, maybe less, if we work together.
Please help to get the word out about this proposal by forwarding this message to the other project mailing lists, translating it, summarizing it etc.
As this concerns a way to share relevant data among *all* projects, I believe every Wikimedia user should know about this and participate in the planning phase.
mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014826.html   (0 words)

  
 Meta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meta (Greek: "about," "beyond"), is a common English prefix, used to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to analyze the latter.
For example "metaphysics" refers to things beyond physics, and "meta language" refers to a type of language or system which describes language.
In organic chemistry, "meta" (along with "ortho" and "para") is used to distinguish the three types of isomer of disubstituted benzenes: it indicates that the substituents are at locants 1 and 3.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meta   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Über Wikimedia
Wikimedia ist eine internationale gemeinnützige Organisation, die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, das Wissen der Menschheit allen Menschen auf der Welt zugänglich zu machen.
Zum Betrieb der Projekte und zur Verwirklichung unserer langfristigen Ziele ist Wikimedia auf Unterstützung angewiesen.
www.wikimedia.de   (0 words)

  
 Wicipedia:Etholiadau i Bwrdd Ymddiriedolwyr y Sylfaen Wikimedia - Wicipedia
Mae etholiadau i'r Bwrdd Ymddiriedolwyr y Sylfaen Wikimedia yn dôd cyn bo hir.
Er mwyn pleidleisio, fydd rhaid i chi wedi gwneud cyfanswm o 400 o olygion o leiaf yn y prosiect Wikimedia rydych chi'n pleidleisio oddiwrth cyn 0:00 GMT ar 31 Mai 2005, ac o leiaf un o'r olygion yn mwy na 90 diwrnod oed cyn yr amser pleidleisio.
Sylwch os gwelwch yn dda, mae gan y Swyddogion Etholiadol yr hawl i ddifreinio pleidleisiau gan defnyddwyr sydd wedi cael eu gwahardd yn parhaol, neu pwpedau-hosan (sockpuppets).
cy.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wicipedia:Etholiadau_i_Bwrdd_Ymddiriedolwyr_y_Sylfaen_Wikimedia   (0 words)

  
 Main Page - Meta
It is not meant to be a duplicate of Wikimedia News.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.
Wikimedia Quarto a quarterly publication of the Foundation.
meta.wikipedia.com /wiki.phtml?title%3DUser:Tsja   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The continued growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent on donations.
The Wikimedia Foundation aims to increase revenue by finding alternative means of financing, including grants and sponsorship.
As of June 2004, Wikimedia's bandwidth and power is donated to the project by Bomis.
wikimedia.biography.ms   (0 words)

  
 In Memoriam - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is intended that this wiki be complete history of the attack, including the background history, the aftermath, and more.
Learn more about what people have done and what you can do to help.
Or look for news stories about the victims and create an initial entry in their memory here.
sep11.wikipedia.org   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia announces Yahoo! support - Wikinews
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation or one of its projects.
Please note that Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
donation is a gesture of support for the charitable goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and does not imply any ownership of the content.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support   (0 words)

  
 Volunteer Squid Sites - Wp dev wiki
This page is to provide a place for Wikimedia server admins to enumerate the questions and requirements that an organization volunteering to host a remote Squid cache site (a VSS) needs to consider before proceeding, and to capture the contact and other information from such volunteers until we can make use of it.
As of January 20, 2005, the Wikimedia squids located near Paris and serving French and English-language content, as well as multimedia content, to French, British, Belgian, Luxembourger and Swiss users has outgoing traffic up to 8 Mbit/s daily, but this bar is likely to increase.
Please say more about the disk controller; I'm wondering if (if you were willing) it might be usable as one of our primary daabase servers in Florida (on loan if not outright donated, assuming us paying shipping each way if necessary).
wp.wikidev.net /Volunteer_Squid_Sites   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia - Wikipedia
Le equipamento computatorial usate pro executar tote le projectos de Wikimedia esseva anque donate per Wales al Fundation.
Il es sperate que le existentia del fundation sin scopo lucrative rendera possibile le generation per donation del publico e per subvention federal statounitese de receptas sufficiente pro assecurar le crescimento continue de cata projecto de Wikimedia.
Il non es clar como istes influentiara le nove processo de Wikimedia.
ia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia   (0 words)

  
 Fundraising - Wikimedia Foundation
Meeting this goal through the maintenance, development and distribution of free content, Wikimedia relies on public donations to run its wiki-based projects.
The content of these projects is provided to the public free of charge.
If you have any questions regarding donations or the Wikimedia Foundation, please contact us.
wikimediafoundation.org /wiki/Fundraising   (0 words)

  
 Main Page - Wikimedia Commons
The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository for free images, music, sound and video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project.
Additionally some files under a non-free license which are copyrighted by Wikimedia are hosted by the project.
The Wikimedia Commons is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Main_Page   (0 words)

  
 Edit throttling - Meta
The goal is to distinguish bots from humans in the fewest number of edits without false positives.
If the Xth record's date is less than Y seconds older than now, an error page is displayed, and the edit is not saved.
or how about a captcha is displayed and then the user may save it if they get it right.
meta.wikipedia.com /wiki/Edit_throttling   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Welcome to the website of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge and without advertising.
The primary use of all of our funds is to purchase the computer equipment needed to support these activities.
The goals of the foundation are to encourage the further growth and development of open content, social sofware wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge.
homepage.ntlworld.com /angwiki/WMF/enindex.htm   (0 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: Wikimedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Foundation also manages a memorial collection of articles about the September 11 attacks and the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content).
The continued growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent primarily on donations.
Wikinews is meant to be a free content news source which allows anybody to report news on a wide variety of subjects.
www.nowtryus.com /article:Wikispecies   (0 words)

  
 Main Page - Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a new project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation with a great potential.
This will cover Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life to the extent that our users allow us.
Wikispecies is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:
species.wikipedia.org   (0 words)

  
 Weblogg-ed - The Read/Write Web in the Classroom :
On a side note, it's actually pretty impressive the way the Wikimedia Foundation seems to be growing.
The other day, we were talking about the Future of the World when he said "You know, I've been thinking a lot about this whole concept, and I think I've been looking at it from the '1984' angle where Big Brother comes in and shuts it down when it gets too threatening.
The battle for the 'Net is about to be engaged...
www.weblogg-ed.com /2005/03/07   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia technical discussions
Should enhance download of pictures for all wikimedia projects (as long as the picture is on common).
Commons is a wikimedia foundation project that aims to provide free multimedia materials.
I was asking about how to do this some time back, but clean forgot to mention it here.
www.livejournal.com /community/wikitech   (0 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: Wikimedia Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Wikimedia Commons (also called "Commons" or "Wikicommons") is a repository of free images, sound and other multimedia files.
The main language for the commons wiki is English, but the interface can be configured (in user preferences) to use any other language, some pages have also been translated into various languages.
As of 2004, the Wikimedia Commons does not allow uploads under non-free licenses, including licenses which restrict commercial use of materials, or are used under "fair use".
www.nowtryus.com /article:Wikimedia_Commons   (0 words)

  
 Wikimedia Foundation may soon launch Wikinews | Wikinerds Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The proposal and the Wikinews policies are being discussed by the Wikimedia Foundation's members.
The Wikinerds Community is a website started by Nikolaos S. Karastathis (NSK) and is mainly focused on the promotion and popularisation of Science, often by using the wiki technology as a tool for creating knowledge bases where anyone can contribute content.
Wikimedia Foundation is not affiliated with nor endorsed by the Wikinerds.org.
portal.wikinerds.org /node/75   (0 words)

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