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→‎Move to San Francisco: Request from Wikimedia Foundation to remove, to thwart handgun and mail bomb attacks.
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== Move to San Francisco ==
 
== Move to San Francisco ==
[[Image:Stillman_Street_-_San_Francisco.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Google ''Street View'' image of Stillman Street]] In late 2007, the Foundation up and moved to [[Directory:San Francisco, California|San Francisco]].  While the Foundation management has attempted to keep secret the exact location of the office, it is widely known (e.g., [http://www.hoovers.com/wikimedia-foundation/--ID__138420--/free-co-locations.xhtml Hoovers.com]) to be at 39 Stillman Street.
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In late 2007, the Foundation up and moved to [[Directory:San Francisco, California|San Francisco]].  The Foundation management has attempted to keep secret the exact location of the office.
    
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[[Image:Wikimedia Headquarters (reduced).jpg|thumb|left|335px|July 2008 view of the Wikimedia Foundation's front door and some garbage]] In mid-July [[2008]], a minor controversy erupted on Wikipedia when a loyal Wikipedian attempted to upload a photo of the Foundation's new office location.  The photo was released under the terms of the GFDL that Wikipedia has so depended on for the '''freedom''' of information ("''information wants to be free''"), so therefore re-posting it here is not a crime.  Even though posting it on Wikipedia would appear to be some kind of crime.  Blogger Luna Santin wrote [http://lunasantin.blogspot.com/2008/07/wikimedia-foundation-removes-image-of.html all about it].
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In mid-July [[2008]], a minor controversy erupted on Wikipedia when a loyal Wikipedian attempted to upload a photo of the Foundation's new office location.  The photo was released under the terms of the GFDL that Wikipedia has so depended on for the '''freedom''' of information ("''information wants to be free''"), so therefore re-publishing it is not a crime.  Even though posting it on Wikipedia would appear to be some kind of unsympathetic act.  Blogger Luna Santin wrote [http://lunasantin.blogspot.com/2008/07/wikimedia-foundation-removes-image-of.html all about it].
 
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