About the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. It operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most-visited websites. The Foundation was created in 2003 by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation operates the following projects:

• Wikipedia, a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world.
• Wiktionary, a project to create free content dictionaries and thesauri in every language.
• Wikiquote, a repository of quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials.
• Wikibooks, which aims to build a collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books.
• Wikisource, a collection of classic books, laws, and other free works.
• Wikispecies, a central, extensive species database for taxonomy.
• Wikinews, with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects.
• Wikiversity, a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities.
• Wikimedia Commons, a central repository for free video, images, music, spoken texts, and other free media that can be easily reused by all Wikimedia projects.

All projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by volunteers using the MediaWiki software. All contributions are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (except in Wikinews, which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5). This means their content may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed subject to the restrictions of that license.

About UNU-MERIT
http://ccg.merit.unu.edu/

UNU-MERIT (the United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and social Research and training Centre on Innovation and Technology) provides insights into the social, political and economic contexts within which innovation and technological change is created, adapted, selected, diffused, and improved upon. The Institute's research and training programmes address a broad range of relevant policy questions dealing with the national and international governance of innovation, intellectual property protection, and knowledge creation and diffusion.

The Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT is a leading research group on open source software, open content, and collaborative creativity and innovation.

For more information:

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, UNU-MERIT
Maastricht, Netherlands,

+31 629 07 44 87 (GMT + 1)

Wikimedia Foundation
St. Petersburg, FL

+1-727-231-0101