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If you would like to show your lack of support for Wikimedia, you are welcome to do so, but NOT by defacing the main page and deleting projects you disagree with. You could be in legal trouble.
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<h3>Please participate in the [http://goat.cx Goatse.cx] Linking Campaign!<h3>
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The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your help by participating in a linking campaign with the excellent website at http://goat.cx/ . Please change your signature on all Wikimedia projects to include a link to this URL, for example: <font face="Chicago, Verdana">[[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] <small>([[User talk:Jimbo Wales|Talk]], [http://goat.cx Goatse])</small></font>. We hope that you will do the right thing and support Wikimedia and its parter Goatse.cx by including these links!</div>
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<h3>Meta in many languages ([[Multilingualism]])</h3>
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* [[Requests for permissions|Permissions]] (to request sysop, bureaucrat status...)
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* [[Multilingual speedy deletions]]
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* [[Locales for the Wikimedia projects|Locales for the MediaWiki Software]] (language files)
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Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files, logos, formats; Copyright issues<br/>
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Coordination of the development process, maintenance of servers, and user guide for MediaWiki.<br />
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* [[How to become a MediaWiki hacker|Hacking MediaWiki]] (getting started)
* [[Development tasks]]
* '''[http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status Wikipedia Server Status]'''
* [[Wikimedia servers]] (our servers)
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About the community itself. Organisation of events; philosophical discussions; collaborated essays.<br />
''See more at [[wikimedian]]s''

* [[The Wikipedia Community]]
* [[Wikipedians categorized by sub-cultural affiliation ]]
* [[Wikimedian#Talks|Personal rants]]
* [[Wikipedia meetup]] (meetings between participants)
* [[Status]] (various types of status, sysop, developer...)
* [[Draft privacy policy]]

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<h2>Core issues & collaboration</h2>

Helping contributing and collaborating (i.e., what makes it easy, what makes it hard, how to do it well, why you have to, what conflicts typically arise, fixing them)
<br />Discussing and formulating project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies.

* [[Transfer of authority]]
* [[Wikimedia principles]] (wikiquette, consensus, NPOV, copyrights)
* [[Growing Wikimedia]] (building the project and the [[community]])
* [[Governance]]
* [[Power structure|Wikimedia power structure]]
* [[Interlingual coordination]] (various international issues)
* [[Wikipedia policies]]
* [[Conflict resolution]]

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<h2>Wikimedia Foundation</h2>

The [http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/ Wikimedia Foundation] is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.

* [[Wikimedia]]: Overview of the Foundation (history, organisation, finances, activities)
* [[Board of Trustees]]
* [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]
* [[Wikimedia mission statement]] (our future charter)
* [[w:en:Wikipedia:Donations|How to make a donation]]
* [[What we use the money for]] (a first rated question...)
* [[Wikipedia releases]] (paper and CD version)
* [[Wikimedia promotion]] (press releases, alexa ranks, tee-shirts etc...)
* [[Wikimedia Newsletter]] a quaterly publication of the Foundation.
* [[Wikimedia Deutschland]] (German local chapter)
* [[Wikimedia France]] (French local chapter)

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{{active Wikipedias}} <small>([[Template:Active Wikipedias|Edit this list]]) </small> - '''[[How to start a new Wikipedia]]'''''
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|[[Image:Wiktionary-en.png|100px|Wiktionary]]
|'''[[Wiktionary|Wiktionaries]]:''' {{Active Wiktionaries}} <small> - ([[Template:Active Wiktionaries|Edit this list]]) </small>

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|[[Image:Wikibooks.png|Wikibooks]]
|'''[[Wikibooks]]:'''
{{Active Wikibooks}} <small> - ([[Template:Active Wikibooks|Edit this list]]) </small>

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|[[Image:Wikiquotenew2.png|100px|Wikiquote]]
|'''[[Wikiquote|Wikiquotes]]:'''
{{Active Wikiquotes}} <small> - ([[Template:Active Wikiquotes|Edit this list]]) </small>

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|[[Image:Sourceberg-small.jpg|100px|Wikisource]]
|'''[[Wikisource|Wikisources]]:'''
{{Active Wikisources}} <small> - ([[Template:Active Wikisources|Edit this list]]) </small>
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|[[Image:Wikinews-logo2.png|100px|Wikinewses]]
|'''[[Wikinews]]:'''
{{Active Wikinews}} <small> - ([[Template:Active Wikibooks|Edit this list]]) </small>

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|[[Image:CommonsLogo-MainPage.png|100px|WikiCommons]]
|'''[[Wikimedia Commons]]:'''
[[commons:Main_Page|English]]

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|[[Image:WikiJunior_logo.PNG|100px|WikiJunior]]
|'''[[Wikijunior|Wikijunior Magazine and Online Encyclopedia]]''': [[wikibooks:Wikijunior Big Cats|Big Cats]], [[wikibooks:Wikijunior Solar System|Solar System]], [[wikibooks:Wikijunior South America|South America]]

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<div align="center">[http://sep11.wikipedia.org/ 9-11 Memorial] ([[Sep11wiki|September 11]]) - '''[[Complete list of Wikimedia projects]]''' - '''[[Proposals for new projects]]'''</div>
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Meta-Wiki

Welcome to Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis.

Other meta-focused wikis such as Wikimedia Outreach are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussions also take place on Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly wikimedia-l, with its low-traffic equivalent WikimediaAnnounce), IRC channels on Libera, individual wikis of Wikimedia affiliates, and other places.

Current events
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May 2024

May 30: Community Affairs Committee: Live call #2 on the Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle at 16:00 UTC
May 23: Community Affairs Committee: Live call #1 on the Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle at 02:00 UTC
May 13–June 23: Community Affairs Committee: Call for feedback on the proposed Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
May 10–May 12: ESEAP Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
May 8–May 29: 2024 Board election: Call for candidates
May 8–June 12: 2024 Board election: Call for questions for candidates
May 8–June 3: Call for new members of the Conference Fund Committee
May 3–May 5: Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia
May 2–May 5: WikiNusantara in Bogor, Indonesia
May 2–May 4: Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up in Santiago, Chile
April 25–May 9: UCoC Coordinating Committee election: Voting period (information for voters / list of all candidates)

April 2024

April 30: Community Resilience and Sustainability conversation hour with Maggie Dennis at 18:00 UTC
April 19–April 21: Wikimedia Summit 2024 in Berlin, Germany
April 2–April 30: Movement Charter: Wikimedia communities review of the Movement Charter full draft (talk page discussions / regional conversations)


Requests
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Cross-wiki issues

Other

Community and communication
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Core issues and collaboration
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Wikimedia Foundation, Meta-Wiki, and its sister projects
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the overarching non-profit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki. Meta-Wiki is the coordination wiki for the various Wikimedia wikis.
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Content projects specialized by linguistic edition

Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia
Wiktionary
Free dictionary and thesaurus
Wikinews
Free-content news
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations
Wikiversity
Free learning resources
Wikisource
Free-content library
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

Multilingual content projects

Wikimedia Commons
Free media repository
Wikidata
Free knowledge base
Wikispecies
Free directory of species
Wikimedia Incubator
For language versions in development
Wikifunctions
Free code repository

Outreach and administration projects

Wikimedia Foundation
Foundation public relations
Wikimedia Outreach
Wikimedia outreach wiki
Wikimania
The International Conference
Wikimedia Mailservices
Wikimedia mailing lists
Wikistats
Wikimedia statistics

Technical and development projects

MediaWiki
MediaWiki software documentation
Wikimedia Enterprise
APIs for high volume use
Wikitech
Wikimedia technical documentation
Phabricator
Issue tracker and planning tool for software projects
Test Wikipedia
For testing software changes
Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hosting environment for community managed software projects, tools, and data analysis
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