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<html><span style="font-size: 115%">I</span></html>magine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.'''

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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. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the [[Our projects|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=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top 50 most visited] websites in the world.

The Foundation mostly relies on support from individuals. Please consider making a donation today, be it '''time, [[fundraising|money]] or [[m:Wikimedia_servers|hardware]]'''. [[Benefactors]]'s page is dedicated to some of the larger [[Fund drives/2005/Q3|donations]] made by companies and individuals which are helping to sustain the projects of Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors.

The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax deductible. See [[deductibility of donations]] for details. Please see our [[fundraising]] page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact the Wikimedia Board at <tt>board at wikimedia.org</tt>.
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==From the board==
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Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation. On this site, you will find articles about the latest Wikimedia initiatives, the thoughts and activities of our Board of Trustees, and words from our founder, Jimmy Wales. You will find current reports from our committees and chapters, notes from the community, and commentary from major figuures in open content, copyright, and distributed research.

*[[Founder letter]] - the latest words from Jimbo Wales, our founder.
*[[Board letter]] - Find out a quartely overview of Wikimedia Foundation activity

==Quartely reports==
<small>[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Edit Request a translation]</small>

<html><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/thumb/9/97/Reports.png/40px-Reports.png" alt="Reports"></html><small>Reports attempt to summarize Wikimedia Foundation activity. Here you will find reports from the various departements of the Foundation : Finance, Grants, Technical, Legal, etc. Most of the editors of this section are either board members, Wikimedians active in the subject area, officers, or other authors asked to report on a specific topic. </small>

* [[Finance report]] - update summer 2005
* [[Grant report]] - update spring 2005
* [[Legal report]] - update spring 2005
* [[Software report]] - update spring 2005
* [[Hardware and hosting report]] - update september 2005
* [[Local chapter report]] - update september 2005
* [[Press report]] - update spring 2005
* [[Research report]] - update september 2005

==From the projects==
<small>[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Edit Add an article/request a translation]</small>

<html><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Quarto/2/En-4" title=""><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/thumb/a/ac/Projects.png/40px-Projects.png" alt="Proyectos"></a></html>
<small>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 publishing, a new grassroot initiative to develop a project, etc... Please feel free to add participate and add reports yourself.</small>

*[[m:How to use or reuse our content|How to use or reuse our content]] : All the projects but one are under the [[w:en:GFDL|GFDL]] Licence: Wikinews is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License].

Non-Wikipedia projects have grown more rapidly than Wikipedia over the past semester, with Wikicommons well ahead of all other projects. Here are some of the [[Our projects|projects]] strengths and highlights, as well as our [[Statistics|latest statistics]].
*[[Projects/Overview of Wikicommons|Overview of Wikicommons]] - april 2005
*[[Projects/An exciting growth !|An exciting growth !]] - august 2005

*[[Projects/Wikipedia increasingly used as book source|Wikipedia increasingly used as book source]] - september 2005
*[[Projects/Wikinews state report sept 2005|Wikinews state report sept 2005]] - september 2005

''More information on prize and awards are at [[m:Trophy box]]''.

==Opinions and essays==
<small>[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Edit Add an article/request a translation]</small>

<small>These articles reflect the opinions of its authors, which may be or not be those of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Still... they are worth it don't you think ?</small>

*[[Opinion/Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful|Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful]] - Erik Möller - September 2005
*[[Opinion/Right or wrong use of intellectual property|Right or wrong use of intellectual property]] - Yann Forget, with the help of Teofilo-Folengo, Emmanuel Legrand, and Nataraja - april 2005

==Specials==
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*[[m:Wikimania 2006]]
*[[Community meetup]]

'''Interviews'''<br>
The Quarto 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/Ward Cunningham|interview with Ward Cunningham]]



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==Latest news==

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''Read the latest release of the Wikimedia Foundation's newsletter:'''''The [[Wikimedia Quarto|Wikimedia Quarto]]'''

See [[current events]] for more information.

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==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]]'''.

A '''complete list of notes from Board meetings''' may be seen at [[meetings]]. The Foundation manages '''the [[Budget]], which pays primarily for [[m:Wikimedia servers/hardware orders|computer equipment]] and hosting'''. Other costs include [[m:Wikimedia staff Wikimedia|human resources]] necessary to the running of the Wikimedia projects, though most people are volunteers.

If you only read the Wikimedia project websites, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.<br>
If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages and talk pages. Please see our '''[[privacy policy]]''' for more information.

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