Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom is a professional development program for teachers co-developed by the Wikimedia Foundation with community partners. Based upon UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework, the program helps both educators and students to develop vital skills for the 21st century, including: Understanding how information is produced How to access and evaluate content….
Teaching 21st Century Skills
Wikipedia is one of the best tools available for students to exercise 21st century skills in an engaging way. 21st century skills, also known as transversal skills, are life skills widely transferable to different settings and not specific to a job, task, sector, discipline, or occupation. With Wikipedia, students can see firsthand the process of….
Promoting Knowledge Equity
Our mission is to set knowledge free. We work to ensure that everyone, everywhere has equitable access to create and consume information. Historically, knowledge has been concentrated in the hands of the few. Marginalized groups’ histories and perspectives have been excluded by structures of power and privilege. Wikipedia revolutionizes this model, as the world’s largest,….
Wikimedia in Education
Wikipedia is one of the world’s largest and most popular educational websites. It contains over 53 million articles across nearly 300 languages — covering topics from anatomy and architecture to zoology and Zambian history. Wikipedia is also a reliable resource for current events and news, with new content created every day and hundreds of updates….
Previous annual reports
2017-2018: Knowledge in progress View 2016-2017: Knowledge belongs to all of us View 2015-2016: Facts Matter View 2014-2015: Knowledge is joy View 2013-2014: Knowledge is a foundation View 2012-2013: Ten years of sharing and learning View 2011-2012: The voice of the world View 2010-2011: The way the world tells its story View 2009-2010: Imagine a….
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Leadership
“It is time that we move beyond a website and open ourselves to everyone, every culture, every form of knowledge.” Katherine Maher, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Financials
Our stories say a lot about the foundation for a better internet— so do our numbers source: Charity Navigator Transparency is a core principle of the Wikimedia Foundation, and we apply this to our financial reporting. We are proud to be recognized as one of the most transparent nonprofit organizations in the world. Our annual….
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