Our donors
Gracias. Merci. 谢谢你. شكراً In every language, we wish to say “thank you.” This year, we received donations from millions of supporters. Those donations make our work possible. Thank you for sustaining Wikimedia and benefiting readers around the world. We are proud to list donors who gave 1,000 USD and more between July….
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.
2018 Annual Report
At 50 million articles and counting, Wikipedia is the largest source of human knowledge ever created—but it isn’t complete. Wikipedia remains a work in progress, an ever-growing and evolving encyclopedia that provides free, reliable, and unbiased information to billions of people around the world. Our 2018 annual report highlights the progress we made this….
Wikimedia vision
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment.
Wikimedia Foundation Non-wiki Privacy Policy
Welcome! This is the Non-wiki Privacy Policy of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). This Privacy Policy applies to WMF’s non-wiki sites, unless stated otherwise on a specific site. Some of our non-wiki sites may be hosted by third-party service providers. In these cases, we will provide a link to that service provider’s privacy policy. The Wikimedia Foundation’s main….
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons includes more than 100 million freely licensed media files—photos, audio, and video—ranging from stunning photos of geographic landscapes to donations from institutions with substantial media collections, like the Smithsonian, NASA, and the British Library. The joy of the Commons Like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons has become a “go-to” source on the internet—used by everyone….
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is the free open-source wiki software used to power Wikipedia and thousands of other wikis. The contributions of hundreds of individual developers have helped make it a feature-rich, secure and scalable platform capable of powering some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world. MediaWiki is used by organizations ranging from SFMOMA….
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