Archive:Press releases/2017

Wikimedia Foundation announces Board of Trustees appointments and leadership at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal

11 August 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints Wikimedia community-selected Trustees, and confirms Chair and Vice Chair leadership

Wikimedians and free knowledge leaders convene in Montreal for 13th annual Wikimania

11 August 2017 Hundreds of volunteer Wikimedians and free knowledge leaders gather in the heart of Quebec to celebrate Wikipedia, the Wikimedia projects, and the people who make them possible. Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and Mozilla announced the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship to honor Bassel Khartabil, Syrian Wikimedian and global open culture advocate

Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Eileen Hershenov as General Counsel

16 May 2017 Experienced general counsel brings nearly three decades of leadership in media, intellectual property, civil liberties, and not-for-profit law

Wikimedia community in Iraq partners with Asiacell to bring Wikipedia to nearly 12 million subscribers free of mobile data charges

28 February 2017 Mobile data fees waived for Asiacell customers in Iraq to access Wikipedia, a free collection of knowledge available in nearly 300 languages

Wikimedia Foundation receives $500,000 from the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist Charitable Fund to support a healthy and inclusive Wikimedia community

26 January 2017 Grant supports development of more advanced tools for volunteers and staff to reduce harassing behavior on Wikipedia and block harassers from the site

Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the web

9 January 2017 Funding to support Wikimedia community efforts to enable structured data on Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository with more than 35 million media files