Wikipedia is there when you need it — now it needs you

Wikipedia is there when you need it — now it needs you, the online encyclopedia that the media is always ready standby to provide information thats no limit. Media very useful for children throughout the world and mankind.
The free encyclopedia for all people,without ads or sponsor.
And it is time we help the sustainability of this media. For these media continue to exist and grow larger.

The following is the information that I quoted directly from wiki:

What is the Wikimedia Foundation?

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the parent organization of various free-content projects, most notably Wikipedia, the award-winning online encyclopedia. We try to bring the educational content from these projects to people in as many forms as possible. In particular, we want to help disadvantaged communities with limited connectivity to access free educational content, and to contribute to it. We own more than 300 servers used to run our projects, along with all the associated domain names and trademarks. Our projects are free of charge and free of advertising. We support strategic software development work on the MediaWiki software and associated tools which allow more people to participate, or allow the existing volunteer community to work more effectively. This includes tools specifically related to quality assurance. We develop learning resources, support workshops and strive to think intelligently about other ways to bring in new contributors, and to grow Wikimedia as an international movement for free knowledge.

In all this, we are supported by local chapters organized in many different countries.

Where can I learn more about your recent activities?

For the fiscal year 2007-08, please consult our Annual Report.

Are you a charity?

Yes. Wikimedia is a non-profit charitable corporation organized under the laws of Florida, USA and physically located in San Francisco, California, USA. Fully audited, the Wikimedia Foundation is now listed as a charitable organization at Guidestar and its partner sites. The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States.

The existence of the Wikimedia Foundation was officially announced by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on June 20, 2003. The bylaws of Wikimedia Foundation Inc. are available online.

Many chapters as well are charitable under the laws of their respective country, see here for details.

Why should I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation?

The job of the Wikimedia Foundation is to provide easy access to information, for people all over the world - free of charge, and free of advertising. As a non-profit, it is dependent on your help to do that. Your donations directly support some of the most popular collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's top ten most popular websites and the largest encyclopedia ever compiled in human history.

Which projects do you support?

The Wikimedia Foundation supports Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia and one of the 10 most visited websites world-wide. From the founding of Wikipedia in January 2001, and the incorporation of the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2003, our growth has been staggering. The English-language Wikipedia, our first project, has expanded to more than 2,500,000 articles today. All Wikipedia languages combined contain more than 11,500,000 articles.

Besides Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation also supports:

Wikimedia Commons, a media repository containing more than 3,100,000 freely usable images, videos, and sound files
Wikibooks, a project to create free textbooks
Wiktionary, a multilingual dictionary and thesaurus
Wikisource, a library of source documents
Wikinews, a citizen news website
Wikiversity, an interactive learning platform
Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
Wikispecies, a directory of life

We lead and support the development of MediaWiki, the open source wiki software behind almost all our public websites; we help to organize outreach and community events to encourage people to contribute to our projects, and we provide downloadble offline copies and database archives of Wikipedia content.

More information may be found on the page about our projects.

How is the Foundation run?

The Wikimedia Foundation has a staff of 23, led by the Executive Director, Sue Gardner. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia communities. It is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ad hoc basis.

The Board of Trustees articulates the mission and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See Meetings for published Board minutes and Resolutions for published Board resolutions. The Board is partially elected from the community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The Board is supported by an Advisory Board, chaired by Angela Beesley.

We have one office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees are working. All board members and remaining staff work remotely.

We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published key policies and financial information.

How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded?

Wikimedia is funded primarily through donations by tens of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see benefactors).

The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. Though individual donations are relatively small, their sheer numbers have ensured our success.

We are presently not considering advertising as a source of revenue.

The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax deductible. See deductibility of donations for details. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate(at)wikimedia.org.


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Posted by Danivan7 | at Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | 3 comments

"Indonesia Doesn't need the world, but the world need Indonesia" ?

Today I got mail from my friends , she give me something words can make
me so confuse why?
because I never thinking about it .
"Indonesia Doesn't need the world, but the world need Indonesia" ?
and this is the story of that mail:

One morning in Bandar Lampung, pick someone in the
airport. The man is older, the range of 60 years. A
the father.

The father is businessman origin Singapore, with speech
talk-style Melayu, English, (or Singlish) he
recounts the experiences of his life to us still
young. Start from the experience of business, spiritual, family,
I even romance ..

"Your country is so rich!"

Yips.. ordinary people I heard the words so. But wait
first ..

"Indonesia does not need the world, but the world needs
Indonesia "
"Everything can be found here in India, you do not need the
world "
"Simply, Indonesia is the world's lung. Cutting only in the forest
Borneo, the world would doom. The world needs
Indonesia! "

"Singapore is nothing, we can not be rich without Indonesia.
Indonesia 500,000 people each holiday to Singapore
moon. can show that the money go to us? apartment-apartment
Condo and our recent purchase of any people Indonesia,
I care about the price before, loud behavior. Look at home
our pain, all the people Indonesia treatment. "

"You know how the Government confused when we
smoke from forest Indonesia entrance? I really panicked. very
taste, we are nothing. "

"You just now that the world crisis of August yesterday rice.
including in Singapore and Malaysia? you in
can easily rice "

"Look up the country, water dimana2 see ..
our country, our water is to buy from Malaysia. I
never to be, even sands contain any gems.
I look of love and hope the sun shines. Farmers there
Rp3000/kg sell to a Chinese factory. And the factory
sell them back at 30.000 IDR/kg. I see
own "

"You do not realize that other countries always afraid
embargo to Indonesia? Yes, because you have a country
everything. They fear if you become independent,
therefore not in the embargo. when the word should be
To love Marium ITS embargo. Buy it from the farmers
we own, buy it from the textile garment factories
alone. I need you I can import production
own. "

"If you can be independent, can your embargo,
Indonesia will rules the world .. "

This is very extraordinary, we have to think like this?
And this new person who spoke Singapore.
Why do not we build all of this now.
why should we wait until we destroyed more than this.
Let's be .. Indonesia is the best I Indonesia, my Beloved Country "

Thanks

DAn (danivan7)

Posted by Danivan7 | at Monday, November 10, 2008 | 0 comments

Fatal tragedy (but not really :D)

Yesterday is my bad day's , really really bad,but I have new experiences about it.
In my new life ,new city and new environment. But I am not comfortable with this new environment.
Because this very different with my life before.So I must try harder for my new life .
And yesterday is the bad days, because the environment where I live flood affected.
:(( its really really bad new for me .

And you can watch pictures of the condition in my new environment (in a little tragedy) :((




Not too bad but really really bother me (and many other).



such as fish ponds.





On the bulevard



tradition if flooding.



On the road (so sad).

This is very bad, especially in this beloved country.
I hope this will not happen again. (Amien...)

Posted by Danivan7 | at Thursday, November 06, 2008 | 1 comments

Fun and Cool (Funnies Pic Vs Extreme car)

Now Time to Blogging All about Funnies :D



:D this home are sleep zzz... zzzzz




We can have the lamp noise





extreme funny


And the Extreme Cars : (Click To View or download Image )



Woow ...... (Click image to view large)




Are u really want to drive it ..... ?



you need a store , I think this car is the choise :))



I like It .. really really love it .... (Mercedez benz Slr).





Cool concept cars ..



Litle But cool ....

Posted by Danivan7 | at Wednesday, November 05, 2008 | 2 comments