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See also our bylaws, vision, and values.

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-'''From our bylaws'''
-The general purpose and objectives of the Foundation shall be the following:
+; See also our [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws|bylaws]], [[vision]], and [[values]].
-Wikimedia  Foundation is dedicated to the development and maintenance of online free, open content  encyclopedias, collections of quotations, textbooks and other collections of documents,  information, and other informational databases in all the languages of the world that will be  distributed free of charge to the public under a free documentation license such as the Free  Documentation License written by the Free Software Foundation Inc. at http://www.fsf.org or  similar licensing scheme, see http://www.wikimedia.org.
-The goals of the foundation are to encourage the further growth and development of open content, social software WikiWiki-based projects (see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) and  to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. In addition to managing  the already developed multilingual general encyclopedia and almanac named Wikipedia,  (http://www.wikipedia.org)  there is a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus named  Wiktionary, an encyclopedia of quotations named Wikiquote, a collection of e-book resources  aimed specifically toward students (such as textbooks and annotated public domain books)  named Wikibooks and a collection of source works called Wikisource; other projects are  envisioned.  The Foundation also manages the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project  (which is not a wiki but is open content).