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Merajul Islam
Wikimedia Foundation logo - vertical.svg
AbbreviationWMF
FoundedJune 20, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-06-20)
St. Petersburg, Florida, US
FounderJimmy Wales[1][2]
Type501(c)(3), charitable organization
20-0049703[3]
FocusFree, open-content, wiki-based Internet projects
Location
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsWikipedia, MediaWiki, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary
Membership
Board-only
Revenue
Expenses
  • Increase US$112.5 million (2020)
  • 91.4 million (2019)[6]
Endowment (2021)> US$100 million[7]
Employees
> 550 staff/contractors (as of October 2, 2021)[8]
Websitewikimediafoundation.org, foundation.wikimedia.org

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, also colloquially referred to as Wikimedia) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, registered as a foundation under US law.[9] It owns and operates the Wikimedia projects.[10][11][12][13]

It was established in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sibling projects through non-profit means.[1][2] As of 2021, it employs over 550 staff and contractors, with annual revenues in excess of US$150 million.


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A useful thing to consider:

Most people don’t know English.

Another useful thing to consider:

“Ask him to point to where he thinks the monkey is going to go.”

“They don’t point,” Everett said. Nor, he added, do they have words for right and left. Instead, they give directions in absolute terms, telling others to head “upriver” or “downriver,” or “to the forest” or “away from the forest.” Everett told the man to say whether the monkey was going upriver or downriver. The man said something in reply.

“What did he say?” Fitch asked.

“He said, ‘Monkeys go to the jungle.’ ”

— John Colapinto, The Interpreter - Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?, The New Yorker, April 16, 2007

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Getting started

Goal

It has the stated goal of developing and maintaining open content, wiki-based projects and providing the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge.[14] Another objective is political advocacy.[15]

It was granted section 501(c)(3) status by the U.S. Internal Revenue Code as a public charity in 2005.[16] Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is B60 (Adult, Continuing education).[17][18] The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.[19]

History

Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and online community organizer/philosophy professor Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia in 2001 as an Internet encyclopedia to supplement Nupedia. The project was originally funded by Bomis, Jimmy Wales's for-profit business. Since Wikipedia was depleting Bomis's resources, Wales and Sanger thought of a charity model to fund the project.[1] The Wikimedia Foundation was incorporated in Florida on June 20, 2003.[2][20] It applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Wikipedia on September 14, 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16, 2004, and, in the European Union, on January 20, 2005. There were plans to license the use of the Wikipedia trademark for some products such as books or DVDs.[21]

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,[22] three months after Wiktionary became the second wiki-based project hosted on Wales' platform.

In April 2005, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service approved the foundation as an educational foundation in the category "Adult, Continuing education", meaning all contributions to the foundation are tax-deductible for U.S. federal income tax purposes.[citation needed]

On December 11, 2006, the foundation's board noted that the corporation could not become the membership organization initially planned but never implemented due to an inability to meet the registration requirements of Florida statutory law. Accordingly, the by-laws were amended to remove all references to membership rights and activities. The decision to change the bylaws was passed by the board unanimously.[23][2]

On September 25, 2007, the foundation's board gave notice that the operations would be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Some considerations cited for choosing San Francisco were proximity to like-minded organizations and potential partners, a better talent pool, as well as cheaper and more convenient international travel than is available from St. Petersburg, Florida.[24][25][26] The move from Florida was completed by January 31, 2008, with the headquarters on Stillman Street in San Francisco.[27]

In October 2017, the headquarters moved to San Francisco's One Montgomery Tower.[28] The board appointed Janeen Uzzell as Chief Operating Officer in 2019.[29]

In September 2020, WMF's application to become an observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was blocked after objections from the government of China[30] over the existence of a Wikimedia Foundation affiliate in Taiwan.[31] In October 2021, WMF's second application was blocked by the government of China for the same reason.[32]

On October 25, 2021, the foundation launched Wikimedia Enterprise, a commercial product designed to sell and deliver Wikipedia's content directly to Big Tech companies.[33][34] WMF will also offer Wikimedia Enterprise to smaller companies.[33]

Projects and initiatives

Wikimedia projects

For the complete list, see wmf:Special:SiteMatrix and m:Complete list of Wikimedia projects.

Content on most Wikimedia project websites is licensed for redistribution under v3.0 of the Attribution and Share-alike Creative Commons licenses.

Content projects

The foundation operates eleven wikis that follow the free content model with their main goal being the dissemination of knowledge. These include, by launch date:

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January 2022

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Neate, Rupert (October 7, 2008). "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales goes bananas". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on November 10, 2008. Retrieved October 25, 2009. The encyclopedia's huge fan base became such a drain on Bomis's resources that Mr Wales, and co-founder Larry Sanger, thought of a radical new funding model – charity.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Wales, Jimmy (June 20, 2003). "Announcing Wikimedia Foundation". mail:wikipedia-l. Archived from the original on March 30, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ "2014 Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (form 990)" (PDF). WMF (Public Inspection Copy). May 11, 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Contact us - Wikimedia Foundation". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Difference between revisions of "Wikimedia Foundation Medium-term plan 2019/Annual Plan 2021-2022" - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 2019-2020
  7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Endo100
  8. ↑ "About Wikimedia Foundation". wikimediafoundation.org. May 30, 2018.
  9. ↑ Hanson, Jarice (2016). The Social Media Revolution: An Economic Encyclopedia of Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting. ABC-CLIO. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-61069-768-2.
  10. ↑ Jacobs, Julia (April 8, 2019). "Wikipedia Isn't Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ Cohen, Noam (March 16, 2021). "Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up". Wired.
  12. ↑ Kolbe, Andreas (May 24, 2021). "Wikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate?". The Daily Dot.
  13. ↑ Culliford, Elizabeth (February 2, 2021). "Exclusive: Wikipedia launches new global rules to combat site abuses". Reuters.
  14. ↑ Devouard, Florence. "Mission statement". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
  15. ↑ Jackson, Jasper (February 12, 2017). "'We always look for reliability': why Wikipedia's editors cut out the Daily Mail". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017. Another core job for the foundation – and Maher – is political advocacy. While copyright and press freedom are important issues for Wikipedia, there is one area even more fundamental to its operation - the rules that protect web firms from full liability for what their users post.
  16. ↑ Charity Navigator Charity Navigator IRS (Forms 990) Tab Archived December 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Page accessed January 31, 2016
  17. ↑ "NTEE Classification System". Archived from the original on February 2, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
  18. ↑ "NCCS definition for Adult Education". Archived from the original on December 26, 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
  19. ↑ Jd. "Wikimedia Foundation bylaws". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on January 23, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
  20. ↑ Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc Record Archived June 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine and Letters of Incorporation, Wikimedia Foundation Archived June 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, filed June 20, 2003
  21. ↑ Nair, Vipin (December 5, 2005). "Growing on volunteer power". Business Line. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
  22. ↑ Rampton, Sheldon (March 16, 2003). "Wikipedia English mailing list message". Archived from the original on November 1, 2005. Retrieved July 11, 2005.
  23. ↑ Bylaws revision.
  24. ↑ Moncada, Carlos (September 25, 2007). "Wikimedia Foundation Moving To Another Bay Area". The Tampa Tribune. Archived from the original on December 28, 2007.
  25. ↑ Mullins, Richard (September 26, 2007). "Online Encyclopedia To Leave St. Petersburg For San Francisco". The Tampa Tribune. Archived from the original on December 28, 2007.
  26. ↑ Kim, Ryan (October 10, 2007). "Wikipedia team plans move to San Francisco". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  27. ↑ "Press releases/Relocation - Wikimedia Foundation". wikimediafoundation.org. October 9, 2007. Archived from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  28. ↑ Villagomez, Jaime (September 21, 2017). "Wikimedia Foundation Office Move". Archived from the original on April 13, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  29. ↑ "Janeen Uzzell". Wikimedia Foundation. January 31, 2019. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  30. ↑ "China blocks Wikimedia Foundation's application to become an observer at WIPO". Knowledge Ecology International. September 23, 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  31. ↑ Hui, Mary. "Beijing blocked Wikimedia from a UN agency because of "Taiwan-related issues"". qz.com. Quartz. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  32. ↑ Moody, Glyn (October 7, 2021). "If You Want To Know Why Section 230 Matters, Just Ask Wikimedia: Without It, There'd Be No Wikipedia". Techdirt. Retrieved October 23, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Cohen, Noam (March 16, 2021). "Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  34. ↑ "Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikimedia Enterprise: the new, opt-in product for companies and organizations to easily reuse content from Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects". Wikimedia Foundation. October 25, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
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