Wikipedia:Presenting Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation

This is a new project page to provide recommendations to individuals giving Wikipedia--based presentations to a live audience. The purpose is to make each presentation as accurate, convenient to assemble, and as high--impact as possible. As a secondary purpose, this project page will coordinate efforts to upload transcripts, audio, and/or video of useful presentations. A Wikimania 2006 workshop is in the works.

Wikipedia article: Wikimedia Foundation Corporate Website:

Understanding the Foundation
There is a lot of behind--the--scenes activity to keep Wikipedia up and running. The Wikimedia Foundation is a non--profit organization that runs Wikipedias in dozens of languages in addition to managing major sister projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is fueling a revolution of freely--available and comprehensive educational information.

Basic Structure

 * Corporate Flowchart
 * Committee Structure & Transparency
 * Role of Jimmy Wales, Brad Patrick
 * Importance of Community

Philosophy & Activism

 * Build by volunteers, handful of paid employees
 * Welcoming of newcomers
 * Educated world citizenry
 * Radical Openness
 * Importance of logic, anti--credentialism, constructive criticism

Foundation Events

 * Wikimania
 * Local Meetups
 * Official Foundation Chapters

Sister Projects to Wikipedia

 * Wikinews, Wikisource, etc...

Future Projects

 * Purpose of Meta, Mailing Lists, IRC
 * Explanation of Principles