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Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Léa Lacroix" lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de Date: Oct 5, 2016 01:20 Subject: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Foundation directly funding Wikidata To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc:

Hello folks,

An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany) were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.

You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ 2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/

Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)