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News and notes

2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate

Wikimedia Foundation revenue has risen fivefold over the past five years

Her concerns were echoed by Pete Forsyth, who opined:

Other posts acknowledged the fundraising team's responsiveness to community feedback, and the difficulty of meeting rising budget needs given declining pageviews. Wikimedia Foundation board member James Heilman said on October 15,

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Space, the final frontier

Struck by Wikipedia

Geraldshields11 has submitted a grant proposal to launch Wikipedia articles into outer space. The project would include a number of articles on a 512 GB SD card to be included on a satellite launch scheduled for the end of the year. According to the proposal, the project would "increase name recondition of Wikimedia and its subcomponents" as well as "STEM coolness". G

Author donates one year's royalties to the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia blog reports that French author Antoine Bello donated an entire year’s royalties to the Wikimedia Foundation.

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