Wikimedia movement
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The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, activities and values which revolve around Wikimedia sites and projects, or anyone who makes a valuable contribution to Wikimedia's free knowledge initiative:
- a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing etc.;
- a collection of activities (Wikimedia projects, conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc.);
- a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters etc.), as well as some free electrons (individuals without chapters) and similar-minded organizations.
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[edit] Membership
People comprising the Wikimedia movement include, but are not limited to:
- promoters, conveyors or users of free information for education and culture
- educators, and educational or cultural institutions
- students (at all degrees)
- social and educational NGOs
- content liberators
- digital restorationists
- contributors
- editors, also known as Wikimedians (Wikipedians, Wiktionarians, etc.)
- developers (of MediaWiki for example)
- other volunteers
- localizers
- donors
- Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Chapters staff, contractors, and volunteers
- Wikimedia Foundation Board
- Jimmy Wales
- Other stakeholders
[edit] Involvement with WikiQueer
WikiQueer is proud to have an active relationship with the Wikimedia movement.
Here are a sample of some of the activities we've undertaken together:
- Development of several MediaWiki extensions
- Outreach to LGBT communities on behalf of wiki communities
- Collaboration on Creating Change conference participation
- Development of MediaWiki.org's WikiProject SysAdmins and WikiProject Extensions
- Facilitation of MediaWiki workshops
[edit] Projects, initiatives and chapters
[edit] Projects
In addition to the multilingual general encyclopedia Wikipedia, the movement manages a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus named Wiktionary, an encyclopedia of quotations named Wikiquote, a repository of source texts in any language named Wikisource, a collection of e-book texts for students (such as textbooks and annotated public domain books) named Wikibooks, and a collection of educational materials and activities named Wikiversity. Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children.
| Name | Web address | Description |
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| Wikipedia | wikipedia.org | Encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 282 languages. |
| Meta-Wiki | meta.wikimedia.org | Wiki devoted to the coordination of the Wikimedia projects. |
| Wiktionary | wiktionary.org | Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations. |
| Wikibooks | wikibooks.org | Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials. |
| Wikiquote | wikiquote.org | Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways. |
| Wikisource | wikisource.org | Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts. |
| Wikimedia Commons | commons.wikimedia.org | Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing over 12 million files. |
| Wikimedia Incubator | incubator.wikimedia.org | Used to test possible new languages for existing projects. |
| Wikispecies | species.wikimedia.org | Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life. |
| Wikinews | wikinews.org | News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries. |
| Wikiversity | wikiversity.org | Educational and research materials and activities. |
| Wikimedia Outreach | outreach.wikimedia.org | Promotion of Wikimedia projects |
| Wikimedia Strategic planning | strategy.wikimedia.org | Strategy planning work for all Wikimedia projects |
| Wikimedia Usability Initiative | usability.wikimedia.org | Usability team wiki |
| Wikimania | wikimania.wikimedia.org | Wikimania conference websites |
| Wikipedia Test Wiki | test.wikipedia.org | Test wiki that runs a recent version of MediaWiki |
[edit] Wikimania
Each year, Wikimedia organizes the event Wikimania, a conference for users of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. It was first organized in Frankfurt (Germany), 2005.
[edit] Local chapters
Wikimedia projects have an international scope. To continue this success on an organizational level, Wikimedia is building an international network of associated organizations.
Local chapters are self-dependent organizations, coordinated by a Chapters Committee (ChapCom), that share the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation and support them within a specified geographical region, usually based on physical boundaries. They support the foundation, the Wikimedia community and Wikimedia projects in different ways—by collecting donations, organizing local events and projects and spreading the word of Wikimedia, free content and Wiki culture. They also provide the community and potential partners with a point of contact capable of fulfilling specific local needs.
Local chapters are self-dependent associations with no legal control of nor responsibility for the websites of the Wikimedia Foundation and vice versa.
[edit] See also
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[edit] Additional activities
Additionally, the movement has undertaken:
- Wikimedia Strategic Plan
- Wikipedia Usability Initiative
- Public Policy Initiative
