Her background in communication has been crucial for her ability to lead at Wikimedia Foundation.

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Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation in 2007, Gardner was a journalist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money.

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"EPUB files can be used very easily in an offline environment, " Tomasz Finc, mobile director at the Wikimedia Foundation, said in a written statement.

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That nonprofit Wikipedia found itself on the same side of the issue as Google and other big tech companies was coincidence, adds Geoff Brigham, general counsel for Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

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Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, acknowledged as much when it sent an email in April insisting that it would cooperate only after an order was issued by a U.S. court.

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Why does the Wikimedia Foundation not currently accept Bitcoin?

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In order to increase the number of editors, the Wikimedia Foundation the non-profit arm that supports Wikipedia has started recruiting in Brazil and India and is more heavily recruiting females (who make up just 10-15% of editors now).

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Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced QRPedia, a free QR code generator that would enable museums across the world to obtain QR codes to wikipedia pages to place next to works of art for visitors to find out more about a piece at the click of a button.

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