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[edit] Mengenai Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation adalah sebuah organisasi nirlaba yang terdaftar di Amerika Serikat, menjadi peladen situs-situs web yang dikenal sebagai "proyek-proyek Wikimedia", termasuk Wikipedia dan Wikinews, juga situs web ini, Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation dipimpin oleh sebuah Dewan Pengawas. Wikimedia Foundation memiliki sekitar 10 orang staf yang digaji dan jumlahnya semakin bertambah. Sejak Januari 2007, Wikimedia Foundation memiliki kantor di San Fransisco, Amerika Serikat. Markas besar sebelumnya di St. Petersburg, Florid telah ditutup pada 31 Januari 2007. Informasi resmi mengenai Foundation dapat ditemukan di situs web resmi: wikimediafoundation.org.
[edit] Organisasi
[edit] Dewan Pengawas
Dewan Pengawas Wikimedia mengelola yayasan dan mengawasi pembagian dan permohonan sumbangan. Dewan Pengawas adalah otoritas tertinggi dalam Wikimedia Foundation Inc., dan memiliki kekuasaan untuk mengatur aktivitas yayasan. Dewan terdiri dari tujuh Pengawas.
Anggaran rumah tangga Wikimedia Foundation Inc. dapat diakses di situs web resmi Foundation: bylaws.pdf (versi wiki). Dewan Wikimedia harus ada, menurut hukum, untuk mengelola organisasi nirlaba tersebut dan mengawasi pembagian dan penggalangan donasi nirlaba.
Anggota Dewan saat ini adalah
- Michael Snow, Ketua (menjadi Pengawas hingga pemilihan oleh seluruh Chapter)
- Jimmy Wales, Ketua Emeritus (hingga Desember 2008)
- Jan-Bart de Vreede, Wakil ketua (sampai Desember 2008)
- Domas Mituzas, Sekretaris Eksekutif (menjadi Pengawas hingga pemilihan oleh seluruh Chapter)
- Stu West, Bendahara (sampai Desember 2008)
- Kat Walsh (hingga Juli 2009)
- Ting Chen (hingga Juli 2009)
Dewan Pengawas adalah otoritas tertinggi dalam Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (pasal IV, ayat 1). Dewan memiliki kekuasaan untuk mengatur aktivitas yayasan. Dewan juga dapat mengubah anggaran rumah tangga yayasan (pasal X, ayat 1).
Anggota dewan dapat menggunakan Wikimedia board manual untuk membantu mereka dalam tanggung jawab pengawasan di berbagai proyek-proyek Wikimedia.
[edit] Organisasi
[edit] Rapat
Dewan melakukan rapat secara reguler untuk mendiskusikan isu-isu yang terdaftar dalam agenda Dewan. Kebanyakan rapat dilakukan melalui IRC, dan beberapa saja dalam pertemuan langsung. Beberapa rapat dilakukan hanya terbatas untuk anggota Dewan saja, dan ada beberapa yang mengizinkan para penyunting seperlunya (seperti satu atau lebih staf) atau kelompok (misalnya dewan dari mitra asosiasi lokal) atau sepenuhnya terbuka bagi setiap orang. Hal ini disebutkan dalam agenda Dewan ketika rapat diumumkan.
Notulen rapat (dan kadang-kadang log diskusi secara keseluruhan) dapat ditemukan di Wikimedia Board meetings.
[edit] Jalur diskusi
Wikimedia Foundation menggunakan berbagai jalur komunikasi:
- Meta-Wiki untuk diskusi dan pengelolaan semua isu publik. Wiki ini sepenuhnya dikelola secara publik dan dapat disunting oleh semua orang, serta multibahasa.
- wikimediafoundation.org adalah situs web resmi Foundation. Wiki ini seluruhnya dapat dibaca publik, tapi akses hanya diberikan anggota dewan kepada anggota terpercaya komunitas. Kami mencoba untuk menerjemahkan halaman-halaman dalam berbagai bahasa. Umpan balik mengenai situs web ini dapat diberikan di Meta-Wiki pada halaman Foundation wiki feedback.
- internal-l adalah milis nonpublik, dengan akses terbatas bagi anggota dewan dan staf.
- private-l adalah milis privat lainnya yang juga digunakan untuk mendiskusikan isu-isu teknis Foundation.
[edit] Anggaran belanja
- For a more detailed explanation of this section, please see Budget.
One of the main expenses for the Foundation is hardware. This includes software and servers for the clusters in Amsterdam, Florida and Seoul.
- For the description of the hardware that powers Wikimedia, please see Wikimedia servers.
- Frequently updated status of this hardware is available at the separate wiki where the developers often communicate and log work.
We already own some of our active and secondary/tangentially-related domain names, while others are still free or already owned.
[edit] Where does the money come from
The Wikimedia Foundation is operated and run using monies raised with fundraising and other donations. For more information, please see the donations page.
[edit] Local chapters
Local chapters are country-based independent Wikimedia user associations. Visit the Wikimedia chapters page for more information about the existing chapters. If you wish to start a chapter or are looking for more information about chapters, you may want to contact the Chapters committee.
[edit] Wikimedia coordination and projects
[edit] Project coordination
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (this wiki) is a website about the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and coordination.
[edit] Main Wikimedia projects
| Wikipedia | An encyclopedia containing more than 3 million articles in over 100 languages. |
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| Wikimedia Commons | A repository of images, sounds, videos and, generally media, common to all Wikimedia projects, containing more than 3,000,000 files. |
| Wikibooks | A collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials. |
| Wiktionary | A dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations. |
| Wikinews | A news source containing reporting by citizen journalists from many countries. |
| Wikisource | A project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain books. |
| Wikiquote | A collection of quotations structured in numerous ways. |
| Wikispecies | A directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life. |
| Wikiversity | A free learning environment for the study of human knowledge. |
[edit] Some project history
- September 7, 2004: The Wikimedia Commons was launched.
- December 3, 2004: After a brief demonstration phase in November, the English beta version of Wikinews became operational. Wikinews is meant to be a free content news source which allows anybody to report news on a wide variety of subjects.
- April 2005: 501(c)(3) non-profit status granted by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service with the NTEE Code: B60 (Adult, Continuing Education).
- November 2005: Wikimedia awarded membership in the World Technology Network.
- 2 June 2006: The Wikimedia Incubator was launched.
[edit] History
The early history of Wikipedia was characterized by much chaos and well-meaning strangeness. Wikipedia Governance was conducted, effectively, by Jimmy Wales (Jimbo) alone, with the assistance of mailing list participants.
The broader mandate of the expanding projects being considered, led to a suggestion in a wikien-l message by Sheldon Rampton:
- I think we should go further still and shoot for the ultimate goal of creating "Wikimedia." That's media with an "m." It would use Wiki-style rules to enable public participation in the creation and editing of all kinds of media: encyclopedias and other reference works, current news, books, fiction, music, video etc. Like current broadcast media, it would have differentiated "channels" and "programs," each with self-selecting audiences. Unlike current media, however, the audience would also be actively involved in creating its own programming, instead of merely passively watching it.
The "wikimedia.org" domain name was purchased by mav in waiting for a Wikipedia/Wikimedia non-profit to come into existence to own it.
On June 20, 2003 Jimbo announced the creation of the Wikimedia Foundation which will serve as the parent, non-profit, organization of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, and future wiki/FDL projects we add to the "Wikimedia family". See also the English Wikipedia article on Wikimedia: en:Wikimedia Foundation.
The first board of trustees was composed of 5 people, Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, Michael Davis, Angela Beesley and Florence Devouard. In 2006, Tim and Angela left the board, whilst Erik Moeller, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Kat Walsh and Oscar van Dillen joined it. In October, Florence Devouard became the chair of the board, in replacement of Jimmy Wales. Governance, originally pretty much relying on Jimbo evolved over the years, toward a more community based approached. First employees joined the organization in 2005, Danny Wool and Brion Vibber.
The organization took a new turn in summer 2007, when Sue Gardner was hired to serve as interim ED. At that point, the staff is made of about 10 people, most in Florida's office and others located in UK, Germany and Netherlands. Most of the committees set up in January 2006 are at this point inactive and abandoned.
