Wikimedia blogNews from inside the Wikimedia Foundation.org.ORG celebrates seven million domains- August 26, 2008 Yesterday .ORG, the public interest registry, announced the major milestone of seven million officially registered .org domains across the web. Wikipedia was featured in the press release as one of the major organizations hosted as a .org. In fact Wikimedia houses .org sites for all of its projects, as well as wikimedia.org, the website of the ...http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/08/26/org-celebrates-seven-million-domains/ Wikipedia to receive German national honor: the Quadriga Award- August 21, 2008 Sebastian Moleski, Interim Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland offers up the following post on the German chapter&8217;s blog. He&8217;s kindly provided a translation below. This is fantastic news and major recognition for Wikimedia in Germany and abroad. The German chapter and German Wikimedia volunteers around the world deserve a huge thank you for this achievement. The ...http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/08/21/wikipedia-to-receive-german-national-honor-the-quadri... Yes, Wikimedia is a non-profit!- August 21, 2008 Do you know that Wikipedia is a Non-Profit This year, we have come to learn the importance of asking this simple question when we talk to the Wikimedia community, the general public, or prospective donors. The key message - We are a Non-Profit - is inherent in all that Wikimedia does. It signifies that we ...http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/08/21/yes-wikimedia-is-a-non-profit/ Techie ecosystem: contractors- August 14, 2008 Wikimedia&8217;s in-house tech staff has always been assisted by a fantastic volunteer infrastructure, from which most of us have been hired over the last few years. That relationship with our community also involves maintaining some important projects via contract positions&8230; Erik Zachte will be maintaining and improving our site statistics &8212; integrating new page view counts ...http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/08/14/techie-ecosystem-contractors/ Your code here- August 8, 2008 It&8217;s tech hiring season again at Wikimedia! Software DeveloperIT Support Software Developer System Administrator We&8217;re looking for at least some people to be here at our San Francisco office, but remote development and system administration is also available (especially making sure we&8217;ve got stronger timezone coverage for our sysadmins). So all you out there who&8217;ve been toiling in secret on ...http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/08/08/your-code-here/ Wikisource transcribes eye-witness report on French invasion of Russia- August 1, 2008 This week, the German language version of Wikisource started the transcription of a precious manuscript with the title &8220;Bemerkungen ber den Feldzug gegen Ruland in den Jahren 1812 und 1813&8221; (Remarks on the campaign against Russia in the years 1812 and 1813). The manuscript from the early nineteenth century was written by an eye witness of ...http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/08/01/wikisource-transcribes-eye-witness-report-on-french-i... |