The office is silent when our small film crew arrives at Wikimedia's San Francisco headquarters.
Her background in communication has been crucial for her ability to lead at Wikimedia Foundation.
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Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation in 2007, Gardner was a journalist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money.
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"EPUB files can be used very easily in an offline environment, " Tomasz Finc, mobile director at the Wikimedia Foundation, said in a written statement.
Twenty native speakers of Yucatec, Mexico's most widely spoken Mayan tongue, met last Thursday to help bring the language to Google, Mozilla and Wikimedia projects.
Photo courtesy Ron Jones via Wikimedia CommonsThe common protest against increased or improved chemical regulation is that tighter regulations will restrict innovation and create an economic burden.
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That nonprofit Wikipedia found itself on the same side of the issue as Google and other big tech companies was coincidence, adds Geoff Brigham, general counsel for Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, acknowledged as much when it sent an email in April insisting that it would cooperate only after an order was issued by a U.S. court.
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The event, dubbed Mozilla Translathon 2012, was organized to provide translations for Firefox, Google's Endangered Languages Project, the WikiMedia software that powers Wikipedia and 500 crowdsourced articles, to boot.
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Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced QRPedia, a free QR code generator that would enable museums across the world to obtain QR codes to wikipedia pages to place next to works of art for visitors to find out more about a piece at the click of a button.
"Gibraltarpedia" organisers want their QR codes to communicate with the user's phone to determine its set-up language, so a Brazilian tourist can be taken to a page in Portuguese, a Turk to one in Turkish and so on, says Roger Bamkin, a consultant to the Gibraltar government and a volunteer from Wikimedia UK, the charity that supports the online encyclopaedia.
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