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The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, that operates many wikis. The foundation is mostly known for hosting Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia, as well as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Incubator, and Meta-Wiki. It also owned the now-defunct Nupedia.
The Wikimedia organization was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects through non-profit means.
As of 2015, the foundation employs over 280 people, with annual revenues in excess of US$75 million.Lila Tretikov leads the foundation as its executive director, and Patricio Lorente is chairman of the board.
The Wikimedia Foundation's stated goal is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge.
In this video Ryan Lane, Operations Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, is going to give you a detailed look into the infrastructure of one of the top web presences. Ryan is also going to talk about how you too can get involved with the Wikimedia Foundation. This talk will cover: - Technical operations - Global architecture - Application servers - Storage - Caching - Load balancing - Content Delivery Network (CDN) - The site architecture you can edit - Community involvement ** Check out http://marakana.com for more free educational videos and resources on open source development.
This is the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and several other open-source projects. Support Wikimedia: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ Also view on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_is_the_Wikimedia_Foundation.webm and Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/165444283
Tutorial on how to make a Page in the new wiki
Who are the roughly 20 paid staffers working at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia? Meet several of the technical, fundraising, programming, and administrative staff to hear their views about working for the organization behind one of the largest and most popular websites on the Internet.
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Wikimedia Deutschland introduces its staff at the office in Berlin.
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Akvopedia and Wikimedia is planning to work together on content about sustainable development. Taking content from the Akvopedia water and sanitation portals and migrating it to Wikibooks and Wikiversity content.
By: Kenzie Jones 5th Hour ft. Kaden Jones Works Cited: "LA FRENCH - LA VILLE ROSE | Ride BMX." Ride BMX. N.p., 02 Aug. 2015. Web. 02 Sept. 2015. "Midi Pyrenees Travel Guide - Midi Pyrenees Cuisine and Wine." Midi Pyrenees Travel Guide - Midi Pyrenees Cuisine and Wine. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2015. "Midi-Pyrénées Geography." Regions of France. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2015. N.p., n.d. Web. "Toulouse Rose, La Ville De Brique." - Tourisme à Toulouse. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2015. "Tourism in Toulouse: Holidays, Breaks and Outings - Visiting the Pink City - Tourisme à Toulouse." Tourism in Toulouse: Holidays, Breaks and Outings - Visiting the Pink City - Tourisme à Toulouse. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2015. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2015.
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WikiCamp is a youth camp organized by Wikimedia Armenia. WikiCamp main goal is the education, deepening wiki editing and translation skills of participants through contributing in Wikipedia, Wiktionary and other Wikimedia Projects. It encourages very active student wikipedians from Armenian Wikipedia Education Program and attract newcomers from different cities of Armenia which increases the reach of wiki movement and Wikipedia Education Program in the regions of Armenia. Due to the camp Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource and Commons are enriched with quality content. Summer Wikicamp 2015 is funded by Wikimedia Foundation.
Room: Rapport Date: Thursday, August 4th, 2011. 14:00 -- 15:30 Collaboration projects with "GLAMs" (the cultural heritage sector) has become one of the most visible success stories of the Wikimedia movement over the last two years. 00:30 - State of the GLAM: DC Aude The Wiki(media) DC group is actively working on collaborations and outreach with cultural institutions in the Washington DC area. In the Fall 2010, we narrowed focus to the topic of American Art, working with the Smithsonian American Art Museum on article collaborations, and the Archives of American Art which is now hosting a Wikipedian in Residence this summer (2011). http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/State_of_the_GLAM:_DC 22:50 - State of GLAM in the Netherlands Maarten Dammers (User:Multichill) GLAM is a...
On Wikipedia's Instagram account we throw open the vault to the world's most interesting media collection, Wikimedia Commons. Explore public domain images with us, and make them your own. They're free. https://www.instagram.com/wikipedia/ Also view on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Instagram_channel_announcement_February_8th,_2016.webm and Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/154609885 Media in this video (all public domain): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strauss,_An_der_sch%C3%B6nen_blauen_Donau.ogg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baldwin_Street,_New_Zealand.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AProkudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png https://commons.wikim...
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[?]get stupid go dumb, ya thats our click
i gives a fucc if u a dime i still calls ya a bitch,
u proly seen us in the club 30 deep equipted with clips
an hella wips out side talkin shit
we pay to get in nothin rush the doe so kwic
21 with no sense security gaurd so tense
'cause we HYPHY aint no tellin wat we mite do
the light bright red but we still slidin throo
hypnotic got me ku pill poped about 2
we done smoked about a quarter now already wat it do
i dont know about u but im feelin my self
whoa let me calm down im killin myself
NO i get stupid so i gotta keep on
i could last about a week long till my battery
gone 6 hours and im charged then im back in the zone
back in the zone get stupid show em how we actin at home
[chorus]get stupid go dumb [x8]
we some stunnas yall some runnas
now get stupid go dumb [x4]
[Yukmouth]nigga im swiggin my shit u shakin ur dreds get stupid
im makin my bred im shakin the feds get dumb
u makin a spred and takin ya meds u stupid
im bussin they head and bussin my led im dumb
fuk a club nigga im a thug nigga with drug dealers
mug nigga with ma middle finga up screamin fuk nigga
wat nigga u from wat i gives a fuk nigga
run up on yuk and get bucked ill have ya touched nigga
u ever c a thousand killas bum rushed nigga
and c 20 of ya bitch niggas getin stuck niggas
get jumped clips dumped leave ya slumped nigga
body in a dump nigga u dont want no funk nigga
i get stupid like a metaly disturbed smokin herb
swingin the suburb thats for the burbs
i rock mynk furs and shit u never heard
and 20 bay niggas on stage going bizerk
[chorus]
[Mac Dre]wen i step up in da club i get hyphy b like wat
i cut it up - fuck it up - stuff it up - roll it up - puff it up
boy im tryin a buss a nut holla at baby wats wit it
fuk wit it ill bust niggas dat sucks and bucks wit it
im nutz wit it stupid d-u-m-b keep a bitch broke like huey mc
im a p-i-m-p straight up out the V the bay u now im straight
aint nobody bad like me aint nobody sav like me
i keep it c.u.t. t.h.r.o.a.t ish u aint notice punk bitch im the coldest
gimme ya rolex its drugs for the rich no chips i aint
got no luv for the bitch
im thug for the chips my frito lays swoop shorty in da cutty
roll and showem they stupid ol ways gucci them j's
stuey is how we come bust a lung nigga get supid go dumb