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Wikimedia Foundation announces Katherine Maher as Executive Director: 24 June 2016 Katherine is an expert on the intersection of technology, human rights, democracy, and international development

Wikimedia Foundation announces new Board trustees and leadership at Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy: 23 June 2016 Christophe Henner and Nataliia Tymkiv bring deep non-profit governance experience

Katherine Maher appointed as interim executive director for the Wikimedia Foundation: 17 March 2016

Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge: 14 January 2016 Community celebrates Wikipedia and sister projects with nearly 150 events on six continents; Wikimedia Foundation announces endowment to sustain Wikipedia for the future

Wikimedia Foundation to explore new ways to search and discover reliable, relevant, free information with $250,000 from Knight Foundation: 6 January 2016 Funds support research and testing to improve how people find information on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects

Kelly Battles and Arnnon Geshuri join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: 5 January 2016 New Trustees bring deep financial, operational, and organizational development expertise to Wikimedia’s free knowledge mission

Archived releases: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

Wikimedia blog

Building a more inclusive movement at WikiConference North America 2016
October 28, 2016

New dataset shows fifteen years of Wikipedia’s quality trends
October 27, 2016

Wikipedia community and Internet Archive partner to fix one million broken links on Wikipedia
October 26, 2016

Alan Turing legislation followed closely by Wikipedia editors
October 25, 2016

A passion for hurricanes and video games: Brenden Moses
October 23, 2016

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