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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 10 most visited websites in the world.

Wikimedia Blog

Read about the latest news and views from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Recent Changes Camp

Latest Tax Form 990 Available on Foundation Wiki by Véronique Kessler, Chief Financial and Operating Officer (May 16th, 2008) Comment!
Farhood Manjoo, Mike Godwin, and Zo Spencer on the “Post Fact society” by Jay Walsh, Head of Communications (May 14th, 2008) Comment!
Wikimedia at Recent Changes Camp 08 by Jay Walsh, Head of Communications (May 11th, 2008) Comment!
Design students tackle WP by Jay Walsh, Head of Communications (May 7th, 2008) Comment!
Wikimedia at Maker Faire 2008 by Cary Bass, Volunteer Coordinator (May 3rd, 2008) Comment!

Wikimania to be held in Buenos Aires

The Foundation has announced that Wikimanía 2009 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Support us

The Wikimedia Foundation relies heavily on the generous support from our users. Please consider making a donation today, be it time, money or hardware. The benefactors page is dedicated to some of the companies and individuals helping to sustain the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors.

The Wikimedia Foundation is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, and donations from US citizens are tax deductible. Donations made by citizens of other countries may also be tax deductible. Please see deductibility of donations for details. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers, postal mail or direct deposit. For all other types of donations, please contact us.

Did you know?

Did you know Wikimedia Commons is a multimedia repository which hosts over 2,000,000 multimedia files?

Wikimedia volunteer Brianna Laugher introduces Wikimedia Commons to you:

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons.

Founded just three years ago as a way to avoid uploading the same image to 200 different wikis, Wikimedia Commons began as a central media repository, making life more convenient for Wikimedia editors. Since then it has grown rapidly into a multilingual community of photographers, illustrators, scanners, audio editors, translators, organisers and annotators.

Corporate details

The Wikimedia Board of Trustees is the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., and has the power to direct the activities of the Foundation. The Foundation bylaws may be seen at Wikimedia Foundation bylaws. Other policies set by the Board may be seen at policies.

The Foundation manages the budget, which pays primarily for computer equipment and hosting. Other costs include human resources necessary to the running of the Wikimedia projects, though most people are volunteers. This site includes a list of notes from Board meetings.

The latest Board decisions may be found at resolutions.

Latest news

Board of Trustees announces Board Restructure details
Jan Bart de Vreede, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, today announced the details of the Board's restructuring. The restructure will add new chapter-selected seats and more clearly defines the terms and details of other seats. Read more (26 April 2008)

Board of Trustees announces appointment of new Board Treasurer
The Board of Trustees has appointed Stuart West as the new board treasurer. West brings new financial experience and skill to the Board of Trustees. Read more (22 April 2008)

Wikimedia is hiring!
Three new fundraising and development job opportunities have been posted. The closing date is May 15. Read more (20 April 2008)

Nicholas Hilliard, subject of the 10 millionth article

Wikipedia Hits Milestone of Ten Million Articles Across 250 Languages
The Hungarian biography of a 16th century painter has been declared the ten millionth article. Read more (28 March 2008)

Wikimedia Foundation Receives $500K Donation
The Wikimedia Foundation announces an unrestricted donation of $500K from philanthropists Vinod and Neeru Khosla. Read more (27 March 2008)

Sloan Foundation awards $3 million USD to support Wikipedia's quality and growth initiatives
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced it is awarding $3 million of support to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which operates the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Read more (25 March 2008)

Library of Alexandria

Wikimania 2008 calls for participation
The Wikimania 2008 Organizing Committee is accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open spaces, and artistic artifacts until March 16, 2008. The conference will be held this summer at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. The submission guidelines are available online. Visit the official site for further information. (12 February 2008)

Wikimedia Foundation releases latest financial statements
Although a bit later than we would have originally liked, I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has approved the Foundation's 2006/2007 financial statements. The financial statements are now posted on the Wikimedia Foundation wiki at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_2007_fs.pdf Read more (Florence Devouard, 8 February 2008)

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Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation (read more...)

Wikipedia Free encyclopedia	Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus	Wikinews Free content news source
Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals	Wikiquote Collection of quotations	Wikisource Free source documents
Wikiversity Free learning tools	Wikispecies Directory of species	Commons Shared media repository

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