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A review of Wikinews by the Sister Projects Task Force, a group affiliated with Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Directors, ultimately proposed closing the site for good.
The Foundation was created in 2003 by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. Today, the Wikimedia Foundation operates the following projects: ...
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
WASHINGTON — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance of ...
As with other Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wikimedia Commons is funded through donations, and the organization has now received a chunky $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a ...
The Wikimedia Foundation's annual conference, Wikimania 2025, spotlights Africa's vital contribution to global knowledge. Join Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and others in Kenya and online, August 6-9.
Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding ...
The Wikimedia foundation, a nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects, recently announced that Amazon made a $1 million gift to its endowment fund. This donation makes ...