The Wikimedia Foundation has begun to build a global organization structure. The first local chapter was founded in Germany. The next local chapter will be set up presumably in France.
=== Germany ===
'''Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.''' (''Wikimedia Germany - society for the promotion of free knowledge'') is the German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, founded 13th of June 2004 in Berlin.