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2010–11 Annual Report
Read our 2010–11 Annual Report, titled ‘the way the world tells its story.’ This year’s report focusses on global celebrations around Wikipedia 10, our emerging work in India, the global education program, our mobile expansion efforts, and on our major engineering/product accomplishments and ambitions.
Wikimedia Strategic Plan
Our strategic priorities:
- Stabilize infrastructure
- Increase participation
- Improve quality
- Increase reach
- Encourage innovation
Wikimedia Foundation targets for 2015:
- Increase the total number of people served to 1 billion
- Increase the number of Wikipedia articles we offer to 50 million
- Ensure information is high quality by increasing the percentage of material reviewed to be of high or very high quality by 25 percent
- Encourage readers to become contributors by increasing the number of total editors who make at least 5 edits per month to 200,000
- Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25 percent and increase the percentage of Global South editors to 37 percent
2011–12 Annual Plan
Read our 2011–12 Annual financial plan, which also includes strategic targets, activities, and staffing overview.
Other reports
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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- Core financial information. On the financial reports page, you will find audited financial statements, detailed financial plans, and our form 990.
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