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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 50 most visited websites in the world.

The Foundation mostly relies on support from individuals. Please consider making a donation today, be it time, money or hardware. Benefactors's page is dedicated to some of the larger donations made by companies and individuals which are helping to sustain the projects of Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors.

The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax deductible. See deductibility of donations for details. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact the Wikimedia Board at board at wikimedia.org.

From the board

Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation. On this site, you will find articles about the latest Wikimedia initiatives, the thoughts and activities of our Board of Trustees, and words from our founder, Jimmy Wales. You will find current reports from our committees and chapters, notes from the community, and commentary from major figuures in open content, copyright, and distributed research.

• Founder letter - the latest words from Jimbo Wales, our founder.
• Board letter - Find out a quartely overview of Wikimedia Foundation activity

Quartely reports

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Reports attempt to summarize Wikimedia Foundation activity. Here you will find reports from the various departements of the Foundation : Finance, Grants, Technical, Legal, etc. Most of the editors of this section are either board members, Wikimedians active in the subject area, officers, or other authors asked to report on a specific topic.

• Finance report - update summer 2005
• Grant report - update spring 2005
• Legal report - update spring 2005
• Software report - update spring 2005
• Hardware and hosting report - update september 2005
• Local chapter report - update september 2005
• Press report - update spring 2005
• Research report - update september 2005

From the projects

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This is a free area, with reports by various people on various issues :-) For example, a report on Wikinews, or Wikicommons; a text on a new arbitration committee, a wikijunior publishing, a new grassroot initiative to develop a project, etc... Please feel free to add participate and add reports yourself.

• How to use or reuse our content : All the projects but one are under the GFDL Licence: Wikinews is under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

Non-Wikipedia projects have grown more rapidly than Wikipedia over the past semester, with Wikicommons well ahead of all other projects. Here are some of the projects strengths and highlights, as well as our latest statistics.

• Overview of Wikicommons - april 2005
• An exciting growth ! - august 2005

• Wikipedia increasingly used as book source - september 2005
• Wikinews state report sept 2005 - september 2005

More information on prize and awards are at m:Trophy box.

Opinions and essays

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These articles reflect the opinions of its authors, which may be or not be those of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Still... they are worth it don't you think ?

• Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful - Erik Möller - September 2005
• Right or wrong use of intellectual property - Yann Forget, with the help of Teofilo-Folengo, Emmanuel Legrand, and Nataraja - april 2005

Specials

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• m:Wikimania 2006
• Community meetup

Interviews
The Quarto caught up with the father of the wiki movement before breakfast on an early Oregon morning, while he was recovering from the recent Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference held in Illinois. In between cans of Moxie, we picked his brain about the evolution of wiki, copyright, and the Wikipedia community. Afterward, he came onto IRC to hang out in #wikipedia for a while, where he was duly lauded. See our interview with Ward Cunningham

Latest news

Telefónica and Wikimedia Foundation Partner to Advance Learning and Increase Access to Free Knowledge
Strategic partnership will improve access to Wikimedia educational and informational content in Latin America and Europe. Read more (1 February 2010)

Wikimedia Foundation Hires Danese Cooper as Chief Technical Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced that it has hired open source evangelist and experienced technology manager Danese Cooper as CTO. Read more (28 January 2010)

Wikipedia Annual Fundraiser Goal Supported by Record Number of Donors
Over $8 Million USD Raised by 230,000 donors in Campaign to Protect Wikipedia. Read more (5 January 2010)

Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Craig Newmark to its Advisory Board
Craigslist.org founder to share customer service and public service experience in support of Wikipedia. Read more (13 November 2009)

Sixth Annual Campaign to Protect Wikipedia Kicks Off
Wikimedia Foundation invites readers, editors and contributors to show support and help raise over $7.5 million Read more (10 November 2009)

Wikimedia and comScore partner to improve understanding of the reach and impact of free knowledge on the Web
Wikimedia Foundation today announced an on-going partnership with comScore that will help expand the Foundation’s awareness of global Web audience trends and demographics, particularly for top ten projects like Wikipedia. Read more (3 November 2009)

Wikimedia Foundation receives $500,000 in operational support from Hewlett Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a $500,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its work bringing free educational content to everyone on the planet. Read more (20 August 2009)

Read the latest release of the Wikimedia Foundation's newsletter:The Wikimedia Quarto

See current events for more information.