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Wikimedia Canada is a nonprofit organization promoting free access to knowledge and education, mainly by supporting the development of content on the Wikimedia projects.

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Wikimedia Canada is a nonprofit organization promoting free access to knowledge and education, mainly by supporting the development of content on the Wikimedia projects. The most known of these projects is without a doubt Wikipedia, which is one of the ten most visited websites in the world. Content on Wikimedia projects is created, improved and put online by volunteers in more than 270 different languages. Wikimedia Canada support their efforts. Futhermore, Wikimedia Canada works with public and private institutions, such as galleries, librairies, archives, museums and universities, with the goal to make their holdings more broadly and freely accessible by everybody. Wikimedia projects All Wikimedia projects are developed collaboratively by their users on a wiki. A wiki is a system of managing content of a website allowing everybody to edit all pages, using the Mediawiki software. Content of Wikimedia projects are free as per the Creative Commons - Attribution - Share alike license, which means that it can be edited, copied and distributed freely, without paying any royalties, provided that the terms of the licence are respected. Wikipedia is the most known of Wikimedia projects. It aims at building a free online encyclopedia in all languages of the world, to which everybody can contribute. The project started in January 2001 in English. Today Wikipedia is available in nearly 285 languages and has over 25 millions articles in all languages. The English version has more than 4 millions articles while the French version has a little bit more than 1.4 millions. Since the beginning of the project, more than 100,000 users did at least ten edits. Currently there are 11 main different projects that are part of the Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikidata, and Wikivoyage. Click on the picture below for more details on each project on the website of the Wikimedia Foundation. Support Wikimedia Canada You are among the millions who read Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects every day, without any ads. This is thanks to the time that volunteers put in. Support their work and allow the Wikimedia projects to remain online freely without ads by making a donation. Wikimedia Canada is an organization entirely managed and run by volunteers. Make a donation Become a member Wikimedia Canada is a member-based organization. Members can participate in all the chapter's discussions and can vote during annual general meetings to elect the board of directors, among other things. How to join

On-going and upcoming events Calendar of public events in Canada   International Francophone Contribution Month (March 2018) The International Francophone Contribution Month is a series of workshops hosted in March throuhout the francophonie with the goal of improving the Wikimedia projects in French. Contributors meet in various locations and invite the local public to an initiation to editing Wikipedia and its sister projects. See the list of workshops in Canada (in French). News 14 December: Wiki Loves Monuments international winners are announced. A picture of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec was selected as the 8th best picture by the international jury. 31 October: Wiki Loves Monuments Canadian winners are announced. 1st October: Launch of the second edition of the National Contribution Month in Canada. Our mission Wikimedia Canada aims to support and engage Canadians to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in all languages of Canada, including Aboriginal languages, under a free licence or in the public domain. Contact Wikimedia Canada 535 Viger Avenue East Montreal (Quebec)  H2L 2P3 info@wikimedia.ca