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  Wikimedia Foundation - 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   (890 words)

  
 Wikimedia Commons - Wikipédia
Wikimedia Commons (ogé katelah "Commons" atawa "Wikicommons") mangrupakeun salahsahiji proyék Yayasan Wikimédia nu tujuanana salaku gudang koropak gambar, sora, sarta multimédia eusi bébas.
Dimuatna koropak sacara lokal masih mungkin, tapi ditujukeun pikeun bahan-bahan nu saluyu jeung kawijakan lokal, tapi teu luyu jeung kawijakan lisénsi Commons.
Mimiti taun 2005, Wikimedia Commons ngahulag dimuatna koropak maké lisénsi teu bébas.
su.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia_Commons   (498 words)

  
 Wikimedia Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wikimedia Commons (also called "Commons" or "Wikicommons") is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files.
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.
As of 2006, the Wikimedia Commons itself does not allow fair use or uploads under non-free licenses, including licenses which restrict commercial use of materials or disallow derivative works.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikicommons   (600 words)

  
 Wikimedia Commons celebrates first anniversary - Wikinews
Wikimedia Commons, or simply Commons, is a repository for multimedia files that include images, videos, computer animations, and music as well as spoken texts.
The Wikimedia Commons proposal was originated by the German Erik Möller, (Eloquence), in March 2004.
The contribution of Wikimedia Commons to a wide array of issues in research, reporting, education, tourism or others, at a global scale, is difficult to fathom at the moment.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/Wikimedia_Commons_celebrates_first_anniversary   (881 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   (794 words)

  
 Wikimedia Foundation - Meta
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 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.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia   (761 words)

  
 [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons support enabled on all wikis
You can edit Commons image pages, but this should only be done for the purpose of describing the content.
In the not so far future, the content of the Commons description page should be directly transcluded on the using wiki.
In the long term, I would like it to be possible for any open content wiki using our software to immediately start using Commons content (caching the images, of course, and maybe even serving them as mirrors chosen in a round-robin fashion).
mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/foundation-l/2004-October/001440.html   (374 words)

  
 Wikimedia Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The project was proposed in March 2004 and launched on September 7, 2004.
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.
Wikimedia Commonplace (http://tiredbrain.com/wikimedia/commonplace/), a Windows tool for uploading files to the Wikimedia Commons
www.wildwood.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Wikimedia_Commons   (590 words)

  
 Fundraising - Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a non-profit organization with the goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world.
Meeting this goal through the maintenance, development and distribution of free content, Wikimedia relies on public donations to run its wiki-based projects.
The Wikimedia Foundation also requires funding to continue its pioneering role in exploring the field of collaborative content creation.
wikimediafoundation.org /wiki/Fundraising   (514 words)

  
 Image guidelines - Wikispecies
Wikispecies is able to load images from Wikimedia Commons.
To read a very short introduction on how you can upload images at Wikimedia Commons and how to set links to them in other wiki projects, please see Commons:first steps.
The introduction on Wikimedia Commons includes explanations on how to add text.
species.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image_guidelines   (200 words)

  
 Universal Pedagogue on www.loguk.com: June 2005
As soon as a file is uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, it is instantly available for use on all Wikimedia projects without needing to be uploaded to the local project.
"Wikimedia Commons is of critical importance for all the Wikimedia projects, and beyond that, it is critically important for the entire free culture movement," said Jimmy Wales, president of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Like Wikimedia's other projects, the Wikimedia Commons is open for everyone to edit, to enrich it with new content, to help in the categorization of existing media, and to remove problematic materials.
www.loguk.com /life/2005/06   (1251 words)

  
 Image:Commons-logo.svg - MediaWiki
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.
This image (or parts of it) is copyrighted by the Wikimedia foundation.
It is (or includes) one of the official logos or designs used by the Wikimedia foundation or by one of its projects.
www.mediawiki.org /wiki/Image:Commons-logo.svg   (195 words)

  
 Why the Wikimedia projects should not use GFDL as a stand alone license for images - notablog
Commons allows only for completely free images, which means that unlike some of the Wikimedia projects, it does not allow the use of
I find the idea of Commons a great one, and I thank Tristan for advertising it with such vehemence and having prompted a few new vocations.
I urge all of the Wikimedia contributors to consider choosing the license(s) they decide to use when releasing their images, depending on what use they believe should be made possible of their documents.
notablog.notafish.com /index.php/2005/04/21/26-why-the-wikimedia-projects-should-not-use-gfdl-as-a-stand-alone-license-for-images   (1062 words)

  
 WikiSearch
Wikimedia projects already disallow this license (see this post by Jimmy Wales for details).
When the Creative Commons project published its first licenses in December 2002, it finally brought a sense of unity behind the free content movement.
September 7 is the first birthday of the Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia's file respository.
www.wikisearch.org   (1407 words)

  
 Main Page - Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a new project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation with a great potential.
See Wikispecies FAQ for replies to common concerns.
Wikispecies is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:
species.wikipedia.org   (172 words)

  
 Licenses/NC - Intelligent Designs
All Creative Commons licenses make it clear that it is possible for the content creator to give special permission that goes beyond the terms of the license to any interested party.
This is true for Wikimedia as well: material which is under special permission is explicitly forbidden and will be deleted.
Hopefully, Creative Commons will contribute to the effort of informing creators that the seemingly simple choice of forbidding commercial use is not so simple at all.
www.intelligentdesigns.net /Licenses/NC   (3770 words)

  
 Wikiquote talk:Image use policy - Wikiquote
I now asked on IRC on #wikimedia, and brion told me that if we want to disable uploads, then we can ask for it on #wikimedia and they will change the configuration on the server.
To answer Jeff's question, I asked a commons admin on IRC about user images, and though he was disappointed to hear I'm not a "hot girl", he assured me user pictures are allowed on commons.
This is just a starter comment for this page, but if possible, it is desirable to upload all GFDL and public domain images to the Wikimedia Commons project where images can be accessed from all Wikimedia projects, rather than uploading images to individual projects.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Wikiquote_talk:Image_use_policy   (1024 words)

  
 Wikimedia Commons - Meta
Wikimedia Commons [2] is a central repository for free images, music, sound and video clips, and spoken texts.
The Commons prevents duplication of uploaded media by having one place that media can be uploaded to for use by all Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Please see the project plan for full details.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia_Commons   (184 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Wikimedia
It is a non-profit corporation based in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, and organized under the laws of Florida.
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).
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Wikimedia   (768 words)

  
 p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site
The Wikimedia Foundation is an international non-profit organization which operates volunteer-driven projects driven by wiki technology.
The Wikimedia Commons, launched only in September 2004, is already shaping up to become one of the Foundation's most popular and successful projects.
The Commons is a repository of free media - pictures, sound files, spoken texts - that are potentially useful to at least one Wikimedia project.
p2pnet.net /story/3202   (2461 words)

  
 Masterpieces of Painting - Alexander Ivanov
Wikimedia Commons is a central repository for free images, music, sound & video clips run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
I am unable to offer legal advice on copyright issues, but from the Wikimedia Commons FAQ it seems clear that personal or educational use should be fine as long as the source is credited (I recommend crediting both Wikimedia Commons and the source indicated on the image information page).
These images are from The Yorck Project, publishers of the 2002 DVD 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (10,000 Masterpieces of Painting).
www.artcyclopedia.com /commons/alexander-ivanov.html   (89 words)

  
 Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/Feb 2004 - Jun 2004 - Wikisource
Of course we only want free material to be on the commons, although for artistic works it might not always be possible to get permission to create derivative works, so I believe that is perhaps a freedom that we have to sometimes do without.
The general licensing regime with the various Wikimedia projects has been the Free Documentation License, which is in some respects similar to the GPL, but I would not want to mislead you about what could be my misunderstandings of the similarities.
I generally agree with having the material under the best known names, but it is not always clear just what the most common name is. There is even room for argument in the case of some presidents about what the most common name is, though I would avoid diminutive names.
wikisource.org /wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/Feb_2004_-_Jun_2004   (4965 words)

  
 Wikibooks:Image use policy - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Ensure the file license is a free license compatible with the licenses acceptable to Wikimedia Commons or that fair use applies.
If you are not familiar with Commons already, read their first steps at Commons.
Note that your Commons account is separate from your Wikibooks account, though you might want to use the same username.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Wikibooks:Image_use_policy   (913 words)

  
 Wiktionary:Sister projects - Wiktionary
This page is about coordination in the names and parameter uses in all of this kind of Wikimedia templates.
This page is a candidate to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons.
Coordinated and coherent (used in all the wikimedia sisterprojects and in the same way).
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Sister_projects   (1111 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: Wikimedia Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Talk of the Nation (NPR) - who's the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, an organizationJIMMY WALES (Founder, Wikimedia Foundation): Thank youWales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, and with ChrisOF THE NATION from NPR News.
Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Wikimedia_Commons   (1045 words)

  
 Podcastplayer.org news » Wikimedia Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wikimedia Commons looks like another free-media resource I didn’t know about.
The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository for free images, music, sound, video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project.
The Commons was launched on September 7,2004.Currentlyitcontains 8108 collections.
www.podcastplayer.org /wordpress/archives/2005/03/22/144   (113 words)

  
 gmane.org.wikimedia.commons
For example with species, quite a few wikis put them at the Latin binomial name (as does Commons), so I don't think it's necessary to list 50 "translations" of a word that already appears on the page.
But they are used on the Commons a lot for other language.
I've writtent a short notice on Commons Village Pump at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Trademark_and_copyright.
blog.gmane.org /gmane.org.wikimedia.commons   (1518 words)

  
 Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/Oct 2004 - Feb 2005 - Wikisource
It seems to me that Wikisource is made obsolete by Commons - it serves with the same function as the commons, but in only one medium - text.
Commons is not just a servant project, but also a standalone archival project.
The Wikimedia should have no role in the spreading of this kind of thing.
wikisource.org /wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/Oct_2004_-_Feb_2005   (6273 words)

  
 the backchannel on mmeiser blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wikimedia's project for managing media / files associated with their other projects
Guy who "conceived the Wikimedia Commons (wrote the proposal and the project plan)"
An MIT project to "teach computers common sense", it's been around for a long time, not sure how active it is.
mmeiser.com /backchannel/2005/08/links-for-2005-08-17-main-page.html   (423 words)

  
 unmediated: Wikimedia Commons
This project 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....
We've been having a back channel conversation amongst the trackers at unmediated about how/whether to update the way in which we aggregate, present, and make useable the content on the site, in light of all the various aggregators, digg and its clones, and role model group blog sites that we all consume/use/hate/love.
This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
www.unmediated.org /archives/2004/12/wikimedia_commo.php   (1051 words)

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