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Thank you! --EGalvez (WMF) (talk) 21:27, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey
(Sorry to write in Engilsh)

Hello! This is a final reminder that the Wikimedia Foundation survey will close on 28 February, 2017 (23:59 UTC). The survey is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes. Take the survey now.

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About this survey: You can find more information about this project here or you can read the frequently asked questions. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement. If you need additional help, or if you wish to opt-out of future communications about this survey, send an email through EmailUser function to User:EGalvez (WMF) or surveys@wikimedia.org. About the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation supports you by working on the software and technology to keep the sites fast, secure, and accessible, as well as supports Wikimedia programs and initiatives to expand access and support free knowledge globally. Thank you! --EGalvez (WMF) (talk) 08:23, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Free software leadership
Hi, thanks for raising this important point at Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018/Participants. Do you know about FLOSS-Exchange? There's quite a lot of proprietary software that Wikimedia Foundation is using now (and that list is not even complete, for instance it doesn't mention proprietary machine translation). Upstream projects also lists quite a few free software project we rely on, not always contributing back. --Nemo 14:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Nemo, and thanks for the pointers! I had seen those pages, but only for the first time while digging for documentation of existing practices in the course of writing my statement. I also just now found the linked page Fundraising_tech/Free_Software_Citizenship, which is a great initiative I hadn't seen or heard about before. MHolloway (WMF) (talk) 15:17, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * I agree it is! I hope they'll have time to blog about it in the coming months. --Nemo 15:21, 6 December 2017 (UTC)