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on 31 August that the Foundation had hired Mark Bergsma as networking coordinator. Bergsma will only be working part-time because of his continuing studies; however, Patrick called Bergsma's "dedicated manpower" a "critical" part of the Foundation's technical team. Bergsma will be responsible for
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and improving that article. Citing the need to focus on improving existing articles rather than creating new ones, Wool also asked that the line of requested articles on the
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status. However, this third competition will now involve editing an "unsourced article" either "related to history" or included on the
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helping maintain the Foundation's infrastructure, including "network reliability independence".
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are currently ongoing. They started on 7 September and will continue until 21 September.
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The contest will run through 7 October, and the winner will receive approximately
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instead be modified to articles that have been requested to be improved to
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Wikimedia Foundation general counsel and interim executive director
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Voting on new logos for Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiversity
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