Mit 50 Millionen Artikeln, die immer mehr werden, ist die Wikipedia die größte Quelle menschlichen Wissens, die jemals erschaffen worden ist — doch sie ist nicht vollständig. Die Wikipedia bleibt eine Arbeit, die sich dauernd in der Ausführung befindet, eine immer weiter wachsende und sich entwickelnde Enzyklopädie, die freie, verlässliche und unvoreingenommene Informationen für Milliarden von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt bereitstellt.
Unser Jahresbericht für 2018 stellt den Fortschritt heraus, den wir letztes Jahr gemacht haben. Er spiegelt die Errungenschaften der Menschen und der Technologie hinter der Wikipedia wider: die 250.000 Freiwilligen, die jeden Monat ihre Zeit der Erweiterung der Wissensgrundlage der Wikipedia widmen; die mehr als 350 Angestellten, welche die Werkzeuge erstellen, durch welche die Wikipedia betrieben wird; und die großzügigen Spender, die sicherstellen, dass die Wikipedia unabhängig und frei von Reklame bleibt.
Wo auch immer Sie sich in das Wikimedia-Ökosystem einfügen: Was wir erreicht haben, wäre ohne Ihre Teilnahme nicht möglich. Danke für Ihr Engagement für die Wikipedia und das Freie Wissen. Gemeinsam schreiten wir voran auf dem Weg zu einer Welt, in der jeder frei an der Summe allen Wissens teilhaben kann.
Ihre dankbare
Katherine Maher, CEO und Direktorin der Wikimedia Foundation
The people behind free knowledge
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Expanding Wikipedia's reach
The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to eliminating barriers to accessing knowledge, but as of 2018, 49% of the world did not use the internet. That's billions of people. We’re working to ensure that every single person can access Wikipedia, even when they don’t have access to the internet. Read the full story.
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Sam Oyeyele's quest to cover African cinema
Nigeria's film industry produces 1,500 movies a year. It's the second largest in the world—but most of it remains missing from Wikipedia. Sam Oyeyele set out to change that. Read the full story.
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Addressing Wikipedia's gender bias
Four years ago, the percentage of women's biographies on the English Wikipedia stood at a paltry 15%—a gap that galvanized volunteer Wikipedia editors to action. Today, that number is nearly 18%, which translates to tens of thousands of new articles and a more accurate view of the women who've made history. Read the full story.
The technology behind free knowledge
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Using artificial intelligence for good
All too often, people deliberately write inaccurate information into Wikipedia, something we call "vandalism." That's why we've built an AI service that scans Wikipedia edits 86 million times per month to catch and correct vandalism when it happens, helping ensure our content remains accurate. Read the full story.
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Learning more with fewer clicks: Page previews
“I found a single Wikipedia page with hover-over previews of additional articles,” one person has tweeted, “and it’s changed my life.” Why? Readers interact with approximately 20% more topics in a given session by using the new page previews feature. We've given you the ability to learn more with fewer distractions. Read the full story.
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Translating the world's free knowledge
Wikipedia is available in more than 300 languages, but they don't all contain the same information. So how is knowledge shared across them? Cue our content translation tool, which helped volunteers create over 400,000 new Wikipedia articles in the past year—making it faster and easier to spread knowledge around the world. Read the full story.
2018 by the numbers
- Wikipedia remains the only top 10 website that's a non-profit
- Wikipedia surpassed 50 million articles
- Volunteers added 2.5 million new articles
- 250,000+ volunteers contributed to Wikipedia each month
- We maintain Wikipedia with 350+ non-profit staff worldwide
- People visited Wikipedia 15 billion times each month
- AI bots scanned Wikipedia edits 86 million times per month to catch and correct vandalism
Financials and leadership
Transparency is a core principle of the Wikimedia Foundation, and we are proud to be recognized as one of the most transparent non-profit organizations in the world. Our annual plan and operating budget are developed through open processes, subject to community feedback and Board approval, and always available to the public for review.
Learn more about our financials, global board of trustees, and diverse leadership team.
Our donors
This year, we received donations from millions of supporters. Those donations make our work possible. Together, we’re building the foundation that supports the people and technology behind free knowledge. Join us.
Helfen Sie uns dabei, das Wissen der Welt zu befreien.
Wegen ihrer Gemeinnützigkeit werden die Wikipedia und unsere verwandten Projekte für Freies Wissen vor allem über Spenden unterstützt.
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