It’s my pleasure to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has signed a strategic mobile and web partnership with Orange. Orange is one of the leading wireless and broadband internet providers in the world, and with this agreement weâll begin integrating trademarked Wikipedia content onto their mobile and web channels. This is not just a way for me to improve my French (although that does need a lot of work. . .) – weâre also working with Orange to co-develop content channels and think about new ways to innovate and expand access to free knowledge. We’ve developed a QA as well dealing with aspects of the partnerships.
This is great news for Orangeâs 175 million mobile customers and web users, as theyâll get better access to Wikipediaâs trove of knowledge throughout their daily lives. We’re starting out in the UK, Poland, Spain and France with plans to work together throughout Orange’s European footprint. This gets Wikipedia knowledge in front of more people in new ways, which helps us in our mission to expand knowledge to more people in more places. I especially want to praise all the volunteers whoâve made Wikipedia the worldâs leading information resource. This partnership will help showcase their important work in front of more people than ever before.
Iâve been negotiating with Orange for a while, and I have been consistently impressed by their dedication to the Foundationâs mission of spreading free knowledge. They appreciate the importance of our community in everything we do, theyâre committed to supporting neutral point-of-view, and they have an increasing interest in open source technology. The Foundation is always interested in business partnerships which understand our culture and help expand our mission, and Orange is an ideal partner for us.
This is an important new revenue stream to build on our successful fundraising campaigns. All the proceeds will go toward Wikimedia Foundation projects, with an emphasis on organizational sustainability and new services to make Wikipedia and our other projects better and easier to use. Weâre a very lean nonprofit organizationâjust 27 of us help maintain the fourth-biggest website in the worldâand this partnership will help us better support the vibrant community that makes Wikipedia possible.
Please join me in welcoming Orange as a new partner supporting the Wikimedia community!
Kul Wadhwa, Business Development<
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