"Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week..."

"Today we announced some fantastic news.The proposal to see Wikimedia’s content adopt a new dual license system has been voted on and approved by the Wikimedia community [...] A huge thanks to the committee, to the folks at Creative Commons [...] to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation ..." -- via

"Last week the Wikimedia Foundation board took an important step toward giving Wikipedia the right to choose to migrate to a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Credit goes to the Wikimedia Foundation and Free Software Foundation for having the wisdom and foresight to enable this progress. However, the real work has just begun..."

"Wikimedia Commons, the multilingual free-content media repository managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, reached the milestone of two million uploaded files on October 8, 2007, less than a year after it reached one million. This makes Wikimedia Commons the fastest growing large Wikimedia project.

"Yesterday on the Wikimedia Commons discussion mailing list. the winners of the 2008 Picture of the Year Competition were announced. Every year Wikimedians vote on the thousands of newly posted, free (under a creative commons, GFD, or public domain license) images to choose winners from hundreds of distinct categories..."

"...the Wikimedia Foundation Board has agreed with a proposal made by the Free Software Foundation that will permit Wikipedia (and other such wikis) to relicense under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. [...] My endless thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible, from Richard Stallman and the FSF board..."
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

The Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new, second prototype “visual editor” for Wikimedia projects. It is an environment that won’t require everyone to learn special markup language in order to contribute. This is part of the effort to turn more readers into editors. Jump in and help develop it!

La 16-an de aprilo je la 0:12 (UTC) oni aldonis al Wikimedia Commons la dekmilionan dosieron. La projekto, kiu enhavas diversajn specojn de dosieroj, ekestis la 7-an de septembro 2004. Ĉiuj estantaj tie dosieroj estas alŝutataj kun liberaj licencoj aŭ danke al publik-havaĵeco fare de volontularo de Wikimedia.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation responsible for the operation of the Wikipedia free online encyclopaedia, has received $500,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a foundation established by the co-founder of HP and his wife.