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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, 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   Wiki Loves Monuments (September 2017) Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate. There are a lot of historic monuments in all participating countries. The goal of Wiki Loves Monuments is to encourage people to take pictures of those monuments, and to put them under a free licence so that others may access them through the Internet. To achieve that, an international contest will take place in September 2017. This page introduces the Canadian part of this competition. In September, you may upload as many picture as you want of monuments that you have visited. Pictures don't have to be taken in September, but must be uploaded that month to be considered. On October 1 the contest jury will begin evaluating the photographs and awarding international prizes for the best pictures. Page of the contest on Wikimedia Commons   Music in Canada Wikipedia Project: Music & Wikidata, Infoboxes, authority control and citations Webinar (25 September 2017) A 30 minute long tutorial aimed at beginners called "Music & Wikidata: Infoboxes, authority control and citations" given by Stacy Allison-Cassin of the York University. This session will cover the basics of infoboxes for music, categories, authority control and adding citations in Wikipedia. Date & Time: 25 September 2017, 2:00 PM EST Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: [1] (password: wikimusic)   National Contribution Month in Canada (October 2017) In October 2017, Wikimedia Canada will host its second National Contribution Month in Canada where a series of contribution workshops to Wikimedia projects are held across the country. The goal is to give opportunities for local Wikimedians to meet and to initiate new contributors. Contribution days are activities where Wikimedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects meet up to collectively improve a predetermined theme. These meetings generally take place in a library where references are easy to access, but can be organised in any public community space. We hope you will join us in bringing the Canadian Wikimedia community together! Page of the National Contribution Month in Canada News 1st September: Launch of the contest Wiki Loves Monuments. 26 July: The winners of the Wiki Loves Earth 2017 in Canada contest are announced. See Wiki Loves Earth/Winners. 16 July: Creation of the Wikipedia in Innu-aimun language in the Wikimedia Incubator. 21 June: Official opening of the Wikipedia in Atikamekw language. 2 June: photographic workshop at Manawan, Quebec and end of the contest "Nitaskinan in pictures". The three winners are WiwaNewashishPetiquay, Jean-Flantier and Iskwew. 1st June: Launch of the contest Wiki Loves Earth. 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