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Form & Content

Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files, logos, formats; Copyright issues
See Wikimedia content

Notifications

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May 2008

	8:	Candidate submissions for the 2008 Board Elections begin.
	6:	Flagged revisions is now running on the German Wikipedia.
	6:	Proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick (where every article is a real medical case), is started. See proposal details for Wikisick.
	5:	Early registration for Wikimania 2008 is now open.
	5:	A brainstorm for a new project, Wikimedia Radio, has been started. Your input is welcomed!

April 2008

	30:	A discussion on introducing the Babel extension for Wikimedia was started.
	28:	A community petition questions the recent decision to reduce community representation on the WMF board.
	22:	Proposal of a new Semi-Wikipedia Project, called WikiTimeLine.net, is started. See proposal details for WikiTimeLine.
	21:	Stuart West, a former senior executive at Yahoo! Inc. and TiVo Inc. was appointed as the new Treasurer of the Wikimedia Foundation by the Board of Trustees.
	15:	Discussions on a Global Blocking extension for Wikimedia was started by creator/developer Andrew Garrett.
	11:	The Wikimedia Blog is now open.

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.

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Coordination of the development process, maintenance of servers, and user guide for MediaWiki.

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Community & Communication

About the community itself. Organisation of events; philosophical discussions; collaborated essays.

The Wikipedia Community
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Meta:Babel (central discussion place here)
Wikimedia Embassy (local contacts by language)
Requests for help to your trouble
Mailing Lists & IRC channels
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Status (various types of status, sysop, developer...)

Core issues & collaboration

Helping contribute and collaborate (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). Discussing and formulating project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies.