Welcome to Wikimedia Canada!

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

News

Signature of an agreement with Library and Archives Canada

Library and Archives Canada and Wikimedia Canada are proud to announce that they have just signed an over-arching agreement to work together in making the country's documentary heritage more accessible to Canadians and people around the world.

This agreement sets the framework for future projects and the organization of events such as edit-a-thons and scan-a-thons. As well, both institutions have agreed to share their expertise and collaborate on research. Specific projects will be announce in the coming months.

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Wiki Loves Earth

During the month of June, Wikimedia Canada is organizing Wiki Loves Earth in Canada. Wiki Loves Earth is an international photo competition to promote natural protected areas around the world. The goal of the contest is to put online as many pictures of recognized natural areas of Canada as possible during the month of June 2019 on Wikimedia Commons in order to share them, for free and under a free licence, with the world. For more information: Wiki Loves Earth/Home.

New mailing list for Wikimedia Canada

Wikimedia Canada has created a new mailing list for all discussions about the Wikimedia movement in Canada. The General mailing list of Wikimedia Canada is a centralized list for subscribers, participants and interested parties to discuss Wikimedia projects. General and important announcements from Wikimedia Canada will be posted to this list. Announcements from Wikimedia Canada will be bilingual but discussions can be in any language. To join this mailing list go to https://discussions.wikimedia.ca/lists/listinfo/general. To send messages to the mailing list: general

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Recent documents

Recently published documents:

20 June 2019: Minutes of the April Programs Committee's meeting
12 June 2019: Minutes of the April Executive Committee's meeting
7 May 2019: Minutes of the February Board Meeting

Upcoming events

July 2019

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Import these events into your calendar manager with the following webcal link: : https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Calendar?action=raw&templates=expand

To add your event here, please contact jpbelandwikimedia.ca or press "Add event" button if you have unlocked the advanced features (see instructions).