Wikimedia Polska (WMPL; pl, Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska) is a Polish
public benefit organization
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established to support volunteers in
Poland who work on
Wikimedia projects such as
Wikipedia. As such, it is a
Wikimedia chapter approved by the
Wikimedia Foundation which owns and hosts those projects.
Wikimedia Polska was started in April 2005 by a group of Polish Wikipedians at
Meta-Wiki. In August of that year 26 first members gathered at a wiki meetup in
Kraków to elect the board members and vote on the statute of the new association. It was officially registered on 15 November 2005. On 28 March 2007 Wikimedia Polska was officially inscribed on the list of public benefit organizations held by the
Polish Ministry of Justice.
WMPL is headquartered in
Warsaw (until 2021 it was headquartered in
Łódź). The organization also has an office in
Poznań. As a Polish chapter of Wikimedia Foundation, the WMPL collaborates with universities, schools, museums and other institutions and has organised events for volunteers aimed at adding content to Foundation projects.
See also
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Open access in Poland
References
Wiki communities
Wikimedia Foundation
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