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==About the Wikimedia Foundation== |
==About the Wikimedia Foundation== |
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The [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]], Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of [[w:en:free content|free]], multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these [[:en:wiki|wiki]]-based projects to the public free of charge. Wikimedia relies on public donations to meet its goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. |
The [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]], Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of [[w:en:free content|free]], multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these [[:en:wiki|wiki]]-based projects to the public free of charge. Wikimedia relies on public donations to meet its goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. |
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==Our projects== |
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], one of the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top |
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], one of the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top 50 most visited] websites in the world. Other online projects include [http://www.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiktionary], a multilingual dictionary; [http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal Wikibooks], a collection of free content textbooks; [http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquote], a repository of famous quotes; [http://www.wikinews.org Wikinews], a free news source; [http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikisource], a repository for primary source material; and [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons], a repository for images and sound data. |
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==The Board== |
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The Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]] manages the nonprofit and supervise the disposition and solicitation of nonprofit donations. The Board of Trustees are the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., and has the power to direct the activities of the foundation. The Board consists of five directors. |
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See [[current events]] for more information. |
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<html>I</html>magine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your help for the next three weeks in our Wikimedia fundraising drive.
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