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'''Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson''' ([[8 April]] [[1859]] – [[14 December]] [[1927]]) was an [[English]] [[officer]] who served in the [[British Army]] during the [[Boer War]], and later commanded elements of the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]] during [[World War I]].

[[Image:Wikimedia.png|framed|right|200px|''Logo of the Wikimedia foundation, designed by Wikipedia user "[[User:Neolux|Neolux]]"'']]

The '''Wikimedia Foundation Inc.''' is the parent organization of [[Wikipedia]], [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikiquote]], [[Wikibooks]] (including [[Wikijunior]] and [[Wikiversity]]), [[Wikisource]], [[Wikimedia In Memoriam 9/11|In Memoriam 9/11]] [http://sep11.wikipedia.org/], [[Wikimedia Commons]], [[Wikispecies]], [[Wikinews]], and [[Nupedia]] (defunct). It is a [[non-profit]] corporation organized under the laws of [[Florida]], [[United States|USA]]. Its existence was officially announced by [[Wikia]] [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] and Wikipedia founder [[Jimmy Wales]] on [[June 20]], [[2003]] [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010690.html].

== External links ==

==Foundation goals==

The goals of the Wikimedia foundation are to develop and maintain [[open content]], [[wiki]]-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public [[gratis|free of charge]]. In addition to the already developed multilingual general [[encyclopedia]] ''Wikipedia'', the Foundation manages a multi-language [[dictionary]] and [[thesaurus]] named [[Wiktionary]], an encyclopedia of [[quotation]]s named [[Wikiquote]], a repository of source texts in any language named [[Wikisource]], and a collection of [[e-book]] texts for students (such as [[textbook]]s and annotated [[public ___domain]] books) named [[Wikibooks]]. [[Wikijunior]] is a related project for children and teenagers.

*[http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42021 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']

The Foundation also manages a memorial collection of articles about the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|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 mostly on [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising donations] but the Wikimedia Foundation tries to increase its revenue by finding alternative means of funding such as [[federal grant|grant]]s and sponsorship.

==Foundation history and growth==

The name "Wikimedia" was [[neologism|coined]] by [[Sheldon Rampton]] in a post to the English Wikipedia's mailing list in [[March 2003]]. It is occasionally criticised for its similarity to the name of [[Wikipedia]] which leads to confusion among people new to the project.

With the Foundation's announcement, Wales also transferred ownership of all Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Nupedia ___domain names to Wikimedia along with the copyrights for all materials related to these projects that were created by Bomis employees or Wales himself. The computer equipment used to run all the Wikimedia projects was also donated by Wales to the Foundation. The ___domain names [http://wikimedia.org/ wikimedia.org] and [http://wikimediafoundation.org/ wikimediafoundation.org] were secured for the Foundation by Wikipedia contributor Daniel Mayer. Wikimedia's [[bandwidth]] and power are covered by donations to the project from various companies and individuals.

In [[January 2004]], Jimmy Wales appointed his business partners Tim Shell and Michael Davis to the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation. In [[June 2004]], an election was held for two user representative Board members. Following one month of campaigning and two weeks of online voting, Angela Beesley and Florence Nibart-Devouard were elected to join the board. Since that time, Wales has employed Beesley in several for-profit enterprises.

Later, other official positions were developed: Tim Starling was appointed Developer Liaison to help improve the organisation of the development of the [[MediaWiki]] software, and Daniel Mayer was appointed Chief Financial Officer to help keep a budget and coordinate fund drives.

==Recent project history==

* [[April 2005]]: [[501(c)(3)]] non-profit status granted by the [[U.S. Internal Revenue Service]]

* [[September 7]], [[2004]]: The [[Wikimedia Commons]] was launched.

* [[December 3]], 2004: After a brief demonstration phase in November, the English beta version of [[Wikinews]] became operational. Wikinews is meant to be a [[free content]] [[news source]] which allows anybody to report news on a wide variety of subjects.

==Board of Trustees==

===2004-2005===

* [[Jimmy Wales]], Founder

* [[Angela Beesley]]

* Michael Davis

* [[Florence Nibart-Devouard]]

* [[Tim Shell]]

== External links ==

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* [http://wikimediafoundation.org/ Wikimedia Foundation website]

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=204+37th+Ave+N,+St+Petersburg,+FL+33704&spn=0.004914,0.007854&t=k&hl=en The ___location of the foundation] on [[Google Maps]].

* [http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/bylaws.pdf Wikimedia Foundation bylaws] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]] file)

* [http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2003/0620/90039369.tif Corporate Charter of Wikimedia Foundation Inc.] two page [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]] file located on Florida Department of State, Divisions of Corporations web site

* [http://www.sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?a1=DETFIL&n1=N03000005323&n2=NAMFWD&n3=0000&n4=N&r1=&r2=&r3=&r4=WIKIMEDIA&r5= Public Record for Wikimedia Foundation Inc.] from Florida Department of State web site

* [[m:Wikimedia|Wikimedia's meta page]]

* [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-March/001887.html Sheldon Rampton's WikiEN-l post]

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