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website, it calls for a review of the copyright status of exact reproductions on 2 dimensional works of art—the same area in which the National Portrait Gallery has recently found itself entangled with the WMF. If there are more than 500 signatures, the Prime Minister's office are obliged to reply.
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The Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam and Spaarnestad Photo of Haarlem are partnering with WMF to provide content. The Tropenmuseum plans to upload some 100,000 images about Indonesia to Wikimedia Commons and in preparation will upload first a smaller collection about Suriname. Spaarnestad has plans to
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about what projects or directions the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia movement should take on; anyone is invited to submit a proposal. This proposal process is tentatively scheduled to run through October. Information about the strategic planning process, including the various stages of the
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The Wikimedia Strategic Planning process is a year-long process designed to get wide community involvement in setting the direction of the Wikimedia Foundation over the next five years; the process aims to
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has been started, which Wikipedians who are UK residents or British Citizens (irrespective of their residency) are invited to sign. Using the e-petition facility on the
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Wikimedia UK—the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation in the United Kingdom—has been denied charitable tax status by
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a "vision paper" for the Wikimedia movement generally, and a five-year strategic plan for the Wikimedia Foundation.
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project and background, is also included on the wiki. The project planners are also holding weekly
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The petition has not at the time of writing been formally endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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the upcoming usability release "Babaco", which will include a number of
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dated June 2009. The chapter reportedly plans to appeal the decision.
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for the Wikimedia Foundation. Voting will continue until August 10th.
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a grant of $ 40,000 for the purchase of new database servers for the
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WMF elections, strategy wiki, museum partnerships, and much more
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on August 3rd that nearly 1200 votes had been cast thus far.
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for multilingual users to translate the mobile interface on
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upload an undisclosed number of files. Gerard Meijssen (
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is now fully subscribed, with 170 attendees; Liam Wyatt
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