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9 unusual facts about Wikimedia Foundation


Internet censorship in France

The French Intelligence Agency DCRI contacted the Wikimedia Foundation, which refused to remove a French Wikipedia article about the Military radio station of Pierre-sur-Haute because the article only contained publicly available information, in accordance with Wikipedia's verifiability policy.

Jacob McArthur Mooney

The book, published by Toronto's McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., is notable for its themes of self-education and for being dedicated to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Luis Villa

Luis Villa is an American attorney, and Deputy General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Lutz Heilmann

On November 13, 2008, Heilmann pressed charges against Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. at the Landgericht Lübeck, obtaining a preliminary injunction which barred the internet address www.wikipedia.de (which is controlled by Wikimedia Deutschland) from linking to de.wikipedia.org (controlled by the U.S.-based Wikimedia Foundation) as long as certain information about him is included in the German Wikipedia in the article Lutz Heilmann.

Palestina, Peru

A documentary featuring Palestina, Peru, has been created under the title Web, in cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation and A Human Right.

Symbols of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

In July 2010, the FBI ordered the Wikimedia Foundation to remove the seal from Wikipedia servers, stating that its unauthorized presence on the encyclopedia was illegal under 18 U.S.C. §701.

Vertrue

Vertrue has sued the Wikimedia Foundation in 2008 in Connecticut over the contents of the article on the company in Wikipedia.

Vietnamese encyclopedias

The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

WMF

Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation that runs various open-content wiki projects


Chuvash Wikipedia

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the international conference "Wikimedia Foundation" Wikimania 2009 on Chuvash example, Wikipedia has shown the value of Wikipedia for the languages on the verge of extinction.

Esperanto Wikipedia

The introduction of support for the Esperanto alphabet by Brion Vibber, an Esperanto speaker and later Wikimedia Foundation's first employee, in January 2002 has paved the way for alphabets of languages other than English and initiated the transition of the whole Wikipedia to Unicode.

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Participating organizations have included Google Crisis Response, Mozilla, Sahana Software Foundation, The Women’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Open Data Kit, Microsoft Disaster Response, OpenHatch, Wikimedia Foundation, E-Democracy, Systers, Wordpress and OpenStack.

We Are Smarter Than Me

Jimmy Wales — founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects.

Wikipedia App

The Wikimedia Foundation publishes official Wikipedia Apps for using Wikipedia on multiple mobile device operating systems, currently: Android (via Google Play), BlackBerry (via BlackBerry World), iOS (via App Store), Firefox OS (via Firefox Marketplace),and Windows 8 (via Windows Store).


see also

Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons

Mike Godwin, general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, dismissed Sanger's claims.