Editing History of Wikipedia (section)

===The Wikimedia Foundation and legal structures===
:''Legal and organizational structure of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], its executive, and its activities as a [[foundation (nonprofit organization)|foundation]].''
* In August 2002, shortly after Jimmy Wales announced that he would never run commercial advertisements on Wikipedia, the [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] of Wikipedia was changed from ''wikipedia.com'' to ''wikipedia.org'' ([[.com]] and [[.org]]).
* On 20 June 2003, the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] was founded.
* Communications committee was formed in January 2006 to handle media inquiries and emails received for the foundation and Wikipedia via the newly implemented [[OTRS]] (a ticket handling system).
* Angela Beesley and [[Florence Nibart-Devouard]] were elected to the Board of [[Trustee]]s of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. During this time, Angela was active in editing content and setting policies, such as privacy policy, within the Foundation.<ref name="Riehle">{{Cite web |first=Dirk |last=Riehle |title=How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko |url=https://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=riehle.org |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316055531/https://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* On 10 January 2006, ''Wikipedia'' became a registered trademark of Wikimedia Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-01-16/Trademark_registered&oldid=35499220|title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-01-16/Trademark registered|access-date=14 January 2007|date=16 January 2006|publisher=Wikipedia|archive-date=3 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903231255/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-01-16/Trademark_registered&oldid=35499220|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In July 2006, Angela Beesley resigned from the board of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Angela_Beesley_resigns_from_Wikimedia_Foundation_board |title=Angela Beesley resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707225015/https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Angela_Beesley_resigns_from_Wikimedia_Foundation_board |archive-date=7 July 2017 |website=Wikimedia Foundation press release |date=7 July 2006}}</ref>
* In October 2006, [[Florence Nibart-Devouard]] became chair of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.