Wikimedia Polska
| Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska | |
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| Abbreviation | WMPL |
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| Formation | 15 November 2005 |
| Registration no. | KRS 0000244732 |
| Legal status | Public benefit organization |
| Location |
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Area served | Poland |
| Methods | Public outreach |
Members | 118 (as of 27 July 2014) |
President | Tomasz Ganicz |
| Affiliations | Wikimedia Foundation, Koalicja Otwartej Edukacji |
| Mission | To help people and organisations create and preserve open knowledge, to support various Wikimedia-related initiatives and to help provide easy access for all. |
| Website |
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Wikimedia Polska (WMPL; Polish: Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska) is a Polish public benefit organization 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 has a permanent office in Łódź, Poland, in addition to press offices in Warsaw and Poznań. As a Polish chapter of Wikimedia Foundation, the WMPL collaborates with museums and other institutions and has organised events for volunteers aimed at adding content to Foundation projects.