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temporary account IP addresses</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation-wikimedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:API_usage_guidelines?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:MyLanguage/Policy:API usage guidelines">API usage guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;u=https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Code_of_Conduct" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Code of Conduct">Code of conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces, including events</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation-wikimedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Combating_online_child_exploitation?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Combating online child exploitation">Combating online child exploitation</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation-wikimedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation-wikimedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Data_Collection_Guidelines?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Data Collection Guidelines">Data collection guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation-wikimedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Data_publication_guidelines?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Data publication guidelines">Data publication guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation-wikimedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Data_retention_guidelines?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Data retention guidelines">Data retention 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Wikimedia delivers its web site services from AS14907 and advertises different prefixes based on geographical locations. More details about our IP and ASN allocations can be found on the <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;u=https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_and_AS_allocations" class="extiw" title="wikitech:IP and AS allocations">IP and AS allocations</a> page at wikitech.wikimedia.org.</p> <p>Our network is open to <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;u=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering" class="extiw" title="en:Peering">peering</a> with other parties, on IPv4 and IPv6 and have presence at multiple <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;u=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Exchange_Point" class="extiw" title="en:Internet Exchange Point">Internet Exchange Points</a>. Up-to-date information about the facilities and IXPs that we are present in, as well as peering information can be found on our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;u=https://as14907.peeringdb.com/">PeeringDB page</a>.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"> <h2 id="Donations">Donations</h2> </div> <p>The Wikimedia Foundation is a not-for-profit charity that depends on the gracious <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;u=https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="donate:">donations</a> by many individuals and companies. We operate on a small budget, so please let us know if you are able and willing to contribute by donating network connectivity services!</p> <p>Things that might be helpful include:</p> <ul> <li>IP transit (full or partial)</li> <li>Transport connectivity</li> <li>A few RU of rack space for a router</li> </ul> <p>If you are interested in helping out, then please <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;u=https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/contact/" class="extiw" title="foundationsite:about/contact/">contact us</a>.</p><!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.codfw.main‐69bc8479c8‐n4skt Cached time: 20241202105519 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [] CPU time usage: 0.232 seconds Real time usage: 0.327 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 658/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 33021/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 778/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 16/100 Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 8820/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.106/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 1726054/52428800 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 210.592 1 -total 86.59% 182.348 1 Template:Policy-staff 48.75% 102.670 1 Template:Policies_navbox 44.70% 94.144 1 Template:Sidebar 34.95% 73.604 1 Template:Ambox 11.95% 25.172 3 Template:Lwp 7.81% 16.450 1 Template:Disclaimer_for_translation 6.68% 14.067 1 Template:Disclaimer_for_translation/ambox 5.56% 11.712 1 Template:If_English 4.84% 10.194 2 Template:Pagelang --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key foundationwiki:pcache:5672:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20241202105519 and revision id 457689. 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