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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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| − | + | We are a 501(c)(3) public charity 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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| − | + | 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. |
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| − | ==What we do== |
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| − | [[File:Civil War Art Editathon 18.jpg|400px|right|alt=Participants at the Civil War and American Art Edit-a-Thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, February 15, 2013]] |
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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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Revision as of 15:31, 16 June 2018
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Wikimedia District of Columbia is the regional Wikimedia chapter serving Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
We are a 501(c)(3) public charity 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. As an official Wikimedia chapter, we support the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, including the work of volunteers on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as well as numerous other free knowledge initiatives. |