The head of the Wikimedia Foundation, Kul Wadhwa, has announced plans to open an office in Brazil and said it is now seeking an executive in the country. Wadhwa told daily Valor Economico that Brazil is one of Wikipedia's priorities and it is planning to

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, and Kat Walsh are members of the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees. It’s easy to frame the fight over SOPA and PIPA as Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley — two huge industries clashing over whose voice should dictate

February 5, 2012; Source: Wikimedia Foundation Global Blog | We think you should each take a look at Wikimedia’s blog post about what it found out through its survey of why readers donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia

This one's going to make all Indians sit up straight and smile, and rightly so. Popular, free web-based encyclopedia recently concluded their successful, annual fund raising program, and to know their donor base better, conducted a readers survey. In an

We recently concluded our annual fundraiser, and it was a great success. With over one million individuals pitching in from almost every country, our donors are a diverse and interesting group in themselves. While we don’t directly collect demographic or

After moving to big cities, some preserve their culture through Wikipedia entries written in regional languages. When Subhashish Panigrahi moved to Bangalore, far from his hometown in Odisha in