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[edit] Vakıf Hakkında
Wikimedia Vakfı ABD'de kâr amacı gütmeyen profille kayıtlı, bu web sitesinin yanı sıra Wikipedia Wikinews gibi "Wikimedia projelerine" ev sahipliği yapan bir kuruluştur. Wikimedia vakfı Mütevelli Heyeti tarafından yönetilir. Ocak 2008'den bu yana Wikimedia Vakfı San Francisco - ABD'de bir ofiste çalışmaktadır. St. Petersburg, Florida'da bulunan eski merkezi 31 Ocak 2008'de kapanmıştır. Vakıfla ilgili resmi bilgilere kendi wikimediafoundation.org adresindeki web sitesinden erişilebilir.
[edit] Organigramme
[edit] Mütevelli Heyeti
The Wikimedia Board of Trustees manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the Wikimedia Foundation bylaws) and currently consists of ten Trustees:
- Ting Chen, Chair (term until July 2012)
- Jan-Bart de Vreede, Vice Chair (term until December 2011)
- Phoebe Ayers, Executive Secretary (term until July 2012)
- Stu West, Treasurer (term until December 2011)
- Jimmy Wales, Founder (term until December 2011)
- Samuel Klein (term until July 2012)
- Kat Walsh (term until July 2012)
- Arne Klempert (term until July 2012)
- Matt Halprin (term until December 2012)
- Bishakha Datta (term until December 2012)
The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:
- Board Restructure announcement by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede
- Board Restructure Questions and Answers
- Board Restructure diagram
- A chart illustrating Board seats over time
The Wikimedia board manual provides an overview of the role of the Board and its duties.
[edit] Organization
[edit] Channels of discussion
The Wikimedia Foundation is managed thanks to the use of
- Meta-Wiki for discussion and organisation of all public issues. This wiki is entirely public and editable by everyone and is also multilingual.
- wikimediafoundation.org is the official website of the Foundation. This wiki is entirely public, but access is only granted to trusted members of the community. We try to translate pages in several languages. Feedback about this website may be offered on the Meta-Wiki at the Wikimedia site feedback page.
- foundation-l is a public mailing list for the community to discuss topic related to the Foundation and its projects
- internal-l is a non public mailing list, with access restricted to board members and officers.
- private-l is another private mailing list may also be used to discuss technical issues among the Foundation.
- OTRS is a ticketing system that is used by Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers to handle emails from the public.
[edit] What do we spend money on
- For a more detailed explanation of this section, please see Wikimedia 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 internet encyclopedia in many languages. |
|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | A repository of freely usable images, sounds, videos and, generally media. |
| 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.
- June 2, 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 Möller, 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 approach. The 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.
