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<div style="font-size:110%; font-weight:bold;">Wikimedia District of Columbia is the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters regional Wikimedia chapter] serving Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.</div>
   
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Wikimedia DC are a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of general knowledge and the collection, development, and dissemination of educational content under a free license or in the public domain.
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<p class="plainlinks" style="font-size:110%">'''Wikimedia District of Columbia''' is the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters regional Wikimedia chapter] serving Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. We are a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the advancement of general knowledge and the collection, development, and dissemination of educational content under a free license or in the public domain.</p>
 
   
<p class="plainlinks" style="font-size:110%;">As an official Wikimedia chapter, we support the goals of the [http://wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation], including the work of volunteers on [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] and other [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects Wikimedia projects] as well as numerous other free knowledge initiatives.</p>
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We are an official Wikimedia chapter, and we support the goals of the [http://wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation], including the work of volunteers on [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] and other [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects Wikimedia projects] as well as numerous other free knowledge initiatives.
   
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Wikimedia DC is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Normally, donations to our organization are deductible from U.S. Federal income taxes. See our [[EIN]] page for some of the formalities.
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==What we do==
 
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<p class="plainlinks" style="font-size:110%;">Wikimedia DC reaches out to people and organizations in the greater Washington, D.C. area. We hold events, including training sessions and edit-a-thons, where experienced Wikipedians and newcomers alike have the opportunity to network and learn from each other's experiences. We also work with institutions share their knowledge with the rest of the world through Wikipedia, the world's most widely visited not-for-profit website. We are an all-volunteer organization. '''Learn about our different initiatives:</p>
 
 
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==How you can get involved==
 
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