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The Wikimedia Foundation is an American Non-Profit Organization and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Context:
- It can manage and host Wikimedia Projects, such as: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikispecies, and Wikinews.
- It can nurture a Wikimedia Community (volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible).
- It can build Software Experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content.
- It can advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Wikimedia Movement, MediaWiki Software, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons.
References
2020
- https://linkedin.com/company/wikimedia-foundation/about/
- QUOTE: ... the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. ...
2020a
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikimedia_Foundation Retrieved:2020-3-3.
- The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement. It owns the internet domain names of most movement projects and hosts sites like Wikipedia. The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sibling projects through non-profit means. [1]
, the foundation employs over 300 people, with annual revenues in excess of . María Sefidari is chair of the board. Katherine Maher has been the executive director since March 2016.
- The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement. It owns the internet domain names of most movement projects and hosts sites like Wikipedia. The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sibling projects through non-profit means. [1]
2020b
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement Retrieved:2020-3-3.
- The Wikimedia movement, or simply Wikimedia, is the global community of contributors to Wikimedia Foundation projects. The movement was created around Wikipedia's community, and has since expanded to the other Wikimedia projects, including the commons projects Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, and volunteer software developers contributing to MediaWiki. These volunteers are supported by numerous organizations around the world, including the Wikimedia Foundation, related chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups.
The name "Wikimedia", a compound of wiki and media, was coined by American author Sheldon Rampton in a post to the English mailing list in March 2003, three months after Wiktionary became the second wiki-based project hosted on Jimmy Wales' platform, and three months before the Wikimedia Foundation was announced and incorporated. [2] "Wikimedia" may also refer to the Wikimedia projects.
- The Wikimedia movement, or simply Wikimedia, is the global community of contributors to Wikimedia Foundation projects. The movement was created around Wikipedia's community, and has since expanded to the other Wikimedia projects, including the commons projects Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, and volunteer software developers contributing to MediaWiki. These volunteers are supported by numerous organizations around the world, including the Wikimedia Foundation, related chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups.
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2018
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
- QUOTE: ... By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.
- We, the Wikimedia contributors, communities, and organizations, will advance our world by collecting knowledge that fully represents human diversity, and by building the services and structures that enable others to do the same.
- We will carry on our mission of developing content as we have done in the past, and we will go further.
- Knowledge as a service: To serve our users, we will become a platform that serves open knowledge to the world across interfaces and communities. We will build tools for allies and partners to organize and exchange free knowledge beyond Wikimedia. Our infrastructure will enable us and others to collect and use different forms of free, trusted knowledge.
- Knowledge equity: As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege. We will welcome people from every background to build strong and diverse communities. We will break down the social, political, and technical barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge.