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This page lists '''frequently asked questions''' about the Wikimedia Foundation. Other questions are answered [[Answers|here]]. If you do not find your question answered here or there, please feel free to [[contact us]].<br />
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=== In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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[//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than {{ALL-WP-COUNT|million=true}} million volunteer-authored articles in over {{WP-EDITIONS-COUNT}} languages, and is visited by more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world. <br />
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It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past ten years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and [[our projects|other free knowledge projects]]. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our [[Media:501%28c%293_Letter.png|letter of tax-exemption]] and our [[financial reports|financial reports and annual filings]]. <br />
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Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a [[local chapters|network of chapters]] in many different countries to achieve this goal.<br />
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=== If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go? ===<br />
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Money you donate pays for staff salaries and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects together reach {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, we employ only {{STAFF-COUNT}} people; see our [[staff]] overview. <br />
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Our staff is divided into three program departments: technology (website operations, software development); legal, communications, and community advocacy (public outreach, community programs, legal defense); and learning and grantmaking (supporting chapter programs and growing Wikimedia worldwide). The remainder of our staff work in management, finance, and administration. Your support also pays for servers, bandwidth, and Internet hosting that allow us to keep Wikimedia's projects running and growing.<br />
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Above all, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the vast network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects – more than 80,000 people around the world.<br />
<br />
=== Where can I find more financial information? ===<br />
<br />
The '''Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 annual report''' covers the fiscal year of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Now in its fifth edition, the Foundation's annual report expresses 'how the world tells its story' through the incredible work of our multilingual projects, and describes the priorities, challenges, and achievements within our movement. <br />
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The '''2013-14 Annual Plan''' is our budget for the current fiscal year. It contains a summary of our strategic goals, financial details on spending and revenue, and detailed explanations and risk analysis.<br />
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Click the images below to download copies of our Annual Reports or our Annual Plan.<br />
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| [[File:WMF Annual Report 2011–12 EN cover rgb 300ppi.png|250px|border|2011–2012 Annual Report|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|center]]<br />
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| '''Download the 2011–12 Annual Report:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:WMF-AR 2011–12 EN SHIP2 17dec12 300dpi hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
| '''Download the 2013–14 Annual Plan:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf|PDF version (402 KB)]]'''<br />
* '''[[2013-2014 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Annual Plan questions and answers]]'''<br />
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=== What are your plans? Where is this going? ===<br />
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As Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." <br />
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We're serious about this vision. Every month, more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people around the world already use Wikipedia. It's available online, on your mobile device, on DVD, in books, and many other forms. We aspire to reach everyone, and to continually provide more and better information.<br />
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Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the [[Board_of_Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees]] set "big, hairy, audacious goals" for Wikimedia. These [[Media:Wikimedia Five-Year Targets.pdf|five-year targets]] (PDF) include increasing Wikimedia's global reach to '''1 billion people''' and the number of articles in Wikipedia to '''50 million'''. We're also setting out to dramatically increase and diversify '''participation''', and to measure and improve '''quality''' of all Wikimedia content.<br />
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Wikimedia is not a traditional organization. It's a global movement. The core of the work is done by thousands of volunteers worldwide. This volunteer community is supported by a network of organizations, with the Wikimedia Foundation at its center, working in partnership with geographically focused [[local chapters]] in {{CHAPTER-COUNT}} countries. It's our volunteer community that enables us to accomplish so much with so little.<br />
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These are some of the activities we're focused on right now:<br />
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| [[File:Wikimedia Foundation Servers-8055 32.jpg|300px]] || '''Operating the world's fifth largest web property.''' At its heart, the Wikimedia Foundation requires operational excellence to continue to exist. As of 2011, we're operating several hundred servers in three locations. While our global traffic continues to grow, our aim is to provide the best possible site experience to everyone in the world, to maximize uptime, and to ensure that all the information in Wikimedia projects is safe and secure.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikimedia Foundation servers in our Florida hosting facility.''<br />
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'''Giving Wikimedia's volunteers the best possible tools to do their work.''' The core technology that makes Wikipedia and its sister projects possible, the wiki, was invented in 1995. Things have changed quite a bit since then. Wikimedia Foundation projects run on an open source wiki software called MediaWiki, which we develop and improve. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute knowledge, and to give volunteers and readers great tools for assessing and improving article quality. In some areas, we lead and innovate. At minimum, we must keep up with key trends in the ever-changing web we're part of. Because our software is open source, everyone can use and improve it.<br />
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''Photograph: [[w:Affinity diagram|Affinity diagram]] created based on Wikipedia usability research.''<br />
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'''Developing recruiting resources for new volunteers.''' Wikimedia is made of people. To grow our global community, we need to excite people about the prospect of being part of it – and help them with their first steps. To this end, we develop and maintain a library of outreach resources, such as videos and screencasts, but also printed "how-tos" and other more targeted resources (for teachers, librarians, students, and others). See the [[outreach:Bookshelf|bookshelf of outreach resources]].<br />
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''Video: Wikimedia volunteers speak about their motivations, shot at the Wikimania 2010 conference. Having trouble playing the video? [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1JN6m0FTI View it on YouTube.]''<br />
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'''Staging outreach and community events world-wide.''' Once a year, hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers come together at [//wikimania.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania], in a different location around the world each year. (You should come! In Summer 2013 [//wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania will be in Hong Kong].) And, Wikimedia's chapter organizations have staged dozens of additional events, competitions and conferences around the world. Some are targeted at recruiting new volunteers; some give the community space to think about its work, and to do it. Recognizing the value of people coming together because they are passionate about Wikimedia's mission has been key to our success.<br />
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''Photograph: Participants of the "Free Your Knowledge" student competition in Indonesia listening to an introductory presentation (2010).''<br />
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| [[File:Backstage Pass at the British Museum 18.jpg|300px]] || '''Partnering with cultural institutions.''' Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums protect and make available the world's history, culture and knowledge. Their mission is to serve and inform the public, just like Wikimedia's. We've successfully partnered with cultural institutions around the world – not just in working with them to make digital reproductions available for free, but also in improving Wikipedia articles and other content related to their collections and archives. Wikimedia chapters are playing a lead role in organizing conferences and meetings targeting the cultural sector, and executing partnerships.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikipedia volunteers at a "backstage pass" event organized by the British Museum (2010).''<br />
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| [[File:IndianaPPIclass.jpg|300px]] || '''Working with the educational sector.''' In the age of the open web, there's the potential for student projects to be more than just exercises. Pioneering professors have long assigned Wikipedia writing as coursework to their students. Everybody wins: students get an audience for their work, teachers successfully motivate their students, and readers get better articles. Wikimedia chapters have also reached out to schools to develop media literacy and to promote responsible use of Wikipedia in the classroom.<br />
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''Photograph: Indiana University students of Barry Rubin's Seminar in Urban Economic Development are improving Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework.''<br />
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'''Providing access to Wikipedia everywhere.''' The next billion people to discover the web will do it using mobile phones, some without ever having touched a laptop. We need to make sure that our sites and services work both on modern smartphones and (to the extent it's possible) on lower-end devices. Our current mobile version is a start and we'll continue to improve it (including moving beyond the read-only experience). And for people with no or intermittent Internet access, we're supporting copies of Wikipedia that can be used completely offline, including projects like [http://thewikireader.com/ the WikiReader], offline readers for desktops and smartphones, and printed versions of Wikimedia content.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikipedia's mobile version works on the PlayStation Portable – and on your smartphone.''<br />
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'''Informing our decision-making with facts and data.''' Analytics, research, experiments and forecasts are essential to make good decisions in a complex environment like Wikimedia. The [http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Foundation Report Card] and the [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ Statistics Portal] provide a wealth of up-to-date analysis which helps us understand the impact of our work. [[m:Research/Projects|Research projects]] provide us with in-depth analysis and experiments, supported by the volunteer-driven [[m:Research Committee|Research Committee]]. We're data nerds – what else would you expect from the kinds of people who love working on an online encyclopedia?<br />
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''Illustration: Projection regarding availability of mature language editions useful to different segments of the world's population.''<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a start-up company that will fade away in a few years. We're in this for the long haul. Everything we do is aimed at providing you, and the rest of the world, with free and immediate access to all the world's knowledge. Join us!<br />
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=== Which projects do you support? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of [//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. <br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is [[w:Wikipedia:WikiLeaks is not part of Wikipedia|not affiliated]] with WikiLeaks.<br />
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'''More information may be found on the page about [[our projects]].'''<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation run? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has a [[staff]] of {{STAFF-COUNT}}, led by the Executive Director, [[User:Sue_Gardner|Sue Gardner]]. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ''ad hoc'' basis.<br />
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The [[Board of Trustees]] articulates the [[Mission_statement|mission]] and [[vision]] of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See [[Meetings]] for published Board minutes and [[Resolutions]] for published Board resolutions. The Board is comprised of ten members, with three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]]; one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for [[Board of Trustees#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]); and four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats. The Board is supported by an [[Advisory Board]].<br />
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We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees work. All Board members and remaining staff work remotely.<br />
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We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published [[policies|key policies]] and [[finance report|financial information]].<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=donations}} from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.<br />
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'''We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.'''<br />
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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 [[Tax Deductibility/en|tax deductibility]] for details. Click [[Ways to Give/en|here]] for details on how to make a donation via credit/debit card, PayPal, Amazon, or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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=== Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue? ===<br />
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.<br />
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The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.<br />
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We are not against the world of online advertising, nor are we against other organizations that host ads. We just know ads are not an appropriate thing to find in a project devoted to education and knowledge – and especially one that strives for balance and neutrality.<br />
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=== How much money are you hoping to raise? ===<br />
The 2013-14 plan posits revenue of $50.1 million from a 2012-13 projection of $50.9 million, a decrease of 1.6%.<br />
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More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]]. Here is our [[Media:2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf|2013-14 Plan]] (PDF), and here is the [[2013-2014_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers|Questions and Answers]] page related to it.<br />
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=== Where can I learn more about your recent activities? ===<br />
For the fiscal year 2011-12, please '''download the 2011-2012 Annual Report:''' '''[[Media:WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
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If you want to keep up with Wikimedia events more regularly, we recommend the following sources:<br />
* the [//blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation blog]<br />
* [//en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Planet Wikimedia], which includes Wikimedia community blogs<br />
* the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaAnnounce-l Wikimedia Announcements mailing list], which includes announcements from chapters and community members<br />
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=== How can I donate via debit or credit card? ===<br />
:To donate using any major credit or debit card ''(VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express)'', PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer; please visit {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=our fundraising page}}. Our donation options support many (although not all) currencies.<br />
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===What other options exist to allow me to donate?===<br />
Alternative ways to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation include:<br />
:*<html><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?form-countryspecific=Form-countryspecific-monthly&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_source=Waystogive&utm_campaign=C11_Waystogive"> setting up an automatic monthly gift </a></html>...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Via_regular_mail|sending check via regular mail]]...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Stock_donation|making a stock donation]]...<br />
:*[[Donate/Match_Your_Gift/en|using your employer's matching gift program]]<br />
:*[http://ematch.hepdata.com:8080/ematch/search/wikimedia check to see if your employer will match your gift]<br />
:*[[Legacy_Gift|make a Legacy Gift to ensure Wikipedia is around for generations to come]]<br />
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=== Why does the Wikimedia Foundation not currently accept Bitcoin? ===<br />
[[w:Bitcoin|Bitcoin]] is a form of [[w:Crypto-currency|crypto-currency]]; in their own words, "an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world."(<small>[http://bitcoin.org/ Bitcoin P2P Digital Currency]. Retrieved 2 November 2011.</small>) The Wikimedia Foundation's position on the matter is as follows:<br />
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<blockquote>The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money. This has been interpreted to mean that we do not accept "artificial" currencies – that is, those not backed by the full faith and credit of an issuing government. We do, however, strive to provide as many methods of donating as possible and continue to monitor Bitcoin with interest and may revisit this position should circumstances change.</blockquote><br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation does try to make donating as easy as possible, however. For a list of ways to give, see [[Ways to Give]].<br />
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=== Are my donations tax-deductible? ===<br />
Please refer to the [[Tax_Deductibility/en| information on tax-deductibility]] for the details of tax-deductions and tax receipts.<br />
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=== Why is there a minimum donation? ===<br />
We receive small donations from people who don't have much money, and we are really, really grateful to those donors. <br />
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Unfortunately it is not uncommon for people to use donation mechanisms such as ours to test stolen credit cards to see if they work. Those people typically use a very small amount for their testing: a $1 minimum donation amount seems to deter them.<br />
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=== What is your donor privacy policy? ===<br />
We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our [[Donor policy|Donor Privacy Policy]] for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.<br />
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===What is your refund policy?===<br />
If for any reason you wish to have your donation refunded, please contact us via email at donate{{@}}wikimedia.org. We will need the following information in order to process your refund:<br />
*Date of donation (All refund requests must be made within 90 days of donation)<br />
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*Amount donated (Donations above USD $10,000 are considered major donations and are subject to the applicable grant agreement between the Foundation and the donor)<br />
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*Country of origin <br />
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*Reason for the refund<br />
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Please note that some payment methods may not support refunds, or require refunds to be made through the payment method (card) utilised, so additional information may be required to process your refund. All refunds will be processed as quickly as possible, but processing times may vary depending on the payment method.<br />
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=== What can I do to help you spread the word? ===<br />
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Spread the word any way you can! Tell your friends and family. Tell them what Wikipedia means to you. Ask them if they use it and if so, what it means to them. Use this text as the signature file on the bottom of your emails: <br />
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<tt> We’ve created the greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: https://donate.wikimedia.org</tt><br />
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Join us on social media by following our social media accounts:<br />
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=== How can I contact the Foundation? ===<br />
If you still have questions or concerns please feel free to contact us. <br />
For donation questions you can email donate{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
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For other questions see the ''[[Contact us]]'' page for more details.<br />
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This page lists '''frequently asked questions''' about the Wikimedia Foundation. Other questions are answered [[Answers|here]]. If you do not find your question answered here or there, please feel free to [[contact us]].<br />
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=== In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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[//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than {{ALL-WP-COUNT|million=true}} million volunteer-authored articles in over {{WP-EDITIONS-COUNT}} languages, and is visited by more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world. <br />
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It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past ten years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and [[our projects|other free knowledge projects]]. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our [[Media:501%28c%293_Letter.png|letter of tax-exemption]] and our [[financial reports|financial reports and annual filings]]. <br />
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Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a [[local chapters|network of chapters]] in many different countries to achieve this goal.<br />
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=== If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go? ===<br />
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Money you donate pays for staff salaries and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects together reach {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, we employ only {{STAFF-COUNT}} people; see our [[staff]] overview. <br />
<br />
Our staff is divided into three program departments: technology (website operations, software development); legal, communications, and community advocacy (public outreach, community programs, legal defense); and learning and grantmaking (supporting chapter programs and growing Wikimedia worldwide). The remainder of our staff work in management, finance, and administration. Your support also pays for servers, bandwidth, and Internet hosting that allow us to keep Wikimedia's projects running and growing.<br />
<br />
Above all, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the vast network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects – more than 80,000 people around the world.<br />
<br />
=== Where can I find more financial information? ===<br />
<br />
The '''Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 annual report''' covers the fiscal year of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Now in its fifth edition, the Foundation's annual report expresses 'how the world tells its story' through the incredible work of our multilingual projects, and describes the priorities, challenges, and achievements within our movement. <br />
<br />
The '''2013-14 Annual Plan''' is our budget for the current fiscal year. It contains a summary of our strategic goals, financial details on spending and revenue, and detailed explanations and risk analysis.<br />
<br />
Click the images below to download copies of our Annual Reports or our Annual Plan.<br />
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| [[File:WMF Annual Report 2011–12 EN cover rgb 300ppi.png|250px|border|2011–2012 Annual Report|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|center]]<br />
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| '''Download the 2011–12 Annual Report:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:WMF-AR 2011–12 EN SHIP2 17dec12 300dpi hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
| '''Download the 2013–14 Annual Plan:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf|PDF version (402 KB)]]'''<br />
* '''[[2013-2014 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Annual Plan questions and answers]]'''<br />
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=== What are your plans? Where is this going? ===<br />
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As Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." <br />
<br />
We're serious about this vision. Every month, more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people around the world already use Wikipedia. It's available online, on your mobile device, on DVD, in books, and many other forms. We aspire to reach everyone, and to continually provide more and better information.<br />
<br />
Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the [[Board_of_Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees]] set "big, hairy, audacious goals" for Wikimedia. These [[Media:Wikimedia Five-Year Targets.pdf|five-year targets]] (PDF) include increasing Wikimedia's global reach to '''1 billion people''' and the number of articles in Wikipedia to '''50 million'''. We're also setting out to dramatically increase and diversify '''participation''', and to measure and improve '''quality''' of all Wikimedia content.<br />
<br />
Wikimedia is not a traditional organization. It's a global movement. The core of the work is done by thousands of volunteers worldwide. This volunteer community is supported by a network of organizations, with the Wikimedia Foundation at its center, working in partnership with geographically focused [[local chapters]] in {{CHAPTER-COUNT}} countries. It's our volunteer community that enables us to accomplish so much with so little.<br />
<br />
These are some of the activities we're focused on right now:<br />
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| [[File:Wikimedia Foundation Servers-8055 32.jpg|300px]] || '''Operating the world's fifth largest web property.''' At its heart, the Wikimedia Foundation requires operational excellence to continue to exist. As of 2011, we're operating several hundred servers in three locations. While our global traffic continues to grow, our aim is to provide the best possible site experience to everyone in the world, to maximize uptime, and to ensure that all the information in Wikimedia projects is safe and secure.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikimedia Foundation servers in our Florida hosting facility.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Wikipedia-Affinity.jpg|300px]]<br />
|| <br />
'''Giving Wikimedia's volunteers the best possible tools to do their work.''' The core technology that makes Wikipedia and its sister projects possible, the wiki, was invented in 1995. Things have changed quite a bit since then. Wikimedia Foundation projects run on an open source wiki software called MediaWiki, which we develop and improve. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute knowledge, and to give volunteers and readers great tools for assessing and improving article quality. In some areas, we lead and innovate. At minimum, we must keep up with key trends in the ever-changing web we're part of. Because our software is open source, everyone can use and improve it.<br />
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''Photograph: [[w:Affinity diagram|Affinity diagram]] created based on Wikipedia usability research.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Great Feeling.ogv|300px]] <br />
|| <br />
'''Developing recruiting resources for new volunteers.''' Wikimedia is made of people. To grow our global community, we need to excite people about the prospect of being part of it – and help them with their first steps. To this end, we develop and maintain a library of outreach resources, such as videos and screencasts, but also printed "how-tos" and other more targeted resources (for teachers, librarians, students, and others). See the [[outreach:Bookshelf|bookshelf of outreach resources]].<br />
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''Video: Wikimedia volunteers speak about their motivations, shot at the Wikimania 2010 conference. Having trouble playing the video? [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1JN6m0FTI View it on YouTube.]''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Pelatihan Peserta di Universitas Mercubuana.JPG|300px]] <br />
|| <br />
'''Staging outreach and community events world-wide.''' Once a year, hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers come together at [//wikimania.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania], in a different location around the world each year. (You should come! In Summer 2013 [//wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania will be in Hong Kong].) And, Wikimedia's chapter organizations have staged dozens of additional events, competitions and conferences around the world. Some are targeted at recruiting new volunteers; some give the community space to think about its work, and to do it. Recognizing the value of people coming together because they are passionate about Wikimedia's mission has been key to our success.<br />
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''Photograph: Participants of the "Free Your Knowledge" student competition in Indonesia listening to an introductory presentation (2010).''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Backstage Pass at the British Museum 18.jpg|300px]] || '''Partnering with cultural institutions.''' Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums protect and make available the world's history, culture and knowledge. Their mission is to serve and inform the public, just like Wikimedia's. We've successfully partnered with cultural institutions around the world – not just in working with them to make digital reproductions available for free, but also in improving Wikipedia articles and other content related to their collections and archives. Wikimedia chapters are playing a lead role in organizing conferences and meetings targeting the cultural sector, and executing partnerships.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikipedia volunteers at a "backstage pass" event organized by the British Museum (2010).''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:IndianaPPIclass.jpg|300px]] || '''Working with the educational sector.''' In the age of the open web, there's the potential for student projects to be more than just exercises. Pioneering professors have long assigned Wikipedia writing as coursework to their students. Everybody wins: students get an audience for their work, teachers successfully motivate their students, and readers get better articles. Wikimedia chapters have also reached out to schools to develop media literacy and to promote responsible use of Wikipedia in the classroom.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: Indiana University students of Barry Rubin's Seminar in Urban Economic Development are improving Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:PSP using the new interface for Wikipedia mobile - 2.jpg|300px]] <br />
|| <br />
'''Providing access to Wikipedia everywhere.''' The next billion people to discover the web will do it using mobile phones, some without ever having touched a laptop. We need to make sure that our sites and services work both on modern smartphones and (to the extent it's possible) on lower-end devices. Our current mobile version is a start and we'll continue to improve it (including moving beyond the read-only experience). And for people with no or intermittent Internet access, we're supporting copies of Wikipedia that can be used completely offline, including projects like [http://thewikireader.com/ the WikiReader], offline readers for desktops and smartphones, and printed versions of Wikimedia content.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikipedia's mobile version works on the PlayStation Portable – and on your smartphone.''<br />
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[[File:QOTW 12-21.png|300px]]<br />
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'''Informing our decision-making with facts and data.''' Analytics, research, experiments and forecasts are essential to make good decisions in a complex environment like Wikimedia. The [http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Foundation Report Card] and the [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ Statistics Portal] provide a wealth of up-to-date analysis which helps us understand the impact of our work. [[m:Research/Projects|Research projects]] provide us with in-depth analysis and experiments, supported by the volunteer-driven [[m:Research Committee|Research Committee]]. We're data nerds – what else would you expect from the kinds of people who love working on an online encyclopedia?<br />
<br />
''Illustration: Projection regarding availability of mature language editions useful to different segments of the world's population.''<br />
|}<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a start-up company that will fade away in a few years. We're in this for the long haul. Everything we do is aimed at providing you, and the rest of the world, with free and immediate access to all the world's knowledge. Join us!<br />
<br />
=== Which projects do you support? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of [//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. <br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is [[w:Wikipedia:WikiLeaks is not part of Wikipedia|not affiliated]] with WikiLeaks.<br />
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'''More information may be found on the page about [[our projects]].'''<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation run? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has a [[staff]] of {{STAFF-COUNT}}, led by the Executive Director, [[User:Sue_Gardner|Sue Gardner]]. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ''ad hoc'' basis.<br />
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The [[Board of Trustees]] articulates the [[Mission_statement|mission]] and [[vision]] of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See [[Meetings]] for published Board minutes and [[Resolutions]] for published Board resolutions. The Board is comprised of ten members, with three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]]; one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for [[Board of Trustees#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]); and four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats. The Board is supported by an [[Advisory Board]].<br />
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We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees work. All Board members and remaining staff work remotely.<br />
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We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published [[policies|key policies]] and [[finance report|financial information]].<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=donations}} from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.<br />
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'''We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.'''<br />
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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 [[Tax Deductibility/en|tax deductibility]] for details. Click [[Ways to Give/en|here]] for details on how to make a donation via credit/debit card, PayPal, Amazon, or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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=== Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue? ===<br />
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.<br />
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The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.<br />
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We are not against the world of online advertising, nor are we against other organizations that host ads. We just know ads are not an appropriate thing to find in a project devoted to education and knowledge – and especially one that strives for balance and neutrality.<br />
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=== How much money are you hoping to raise? ===<br />
The 2013-14 plan posits revenue of $50.1 million from a 2012-13 projection of $50.9 million, a decrease of 1.6%.<br />
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More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]]. Here is our [[Media:2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf|2013-14 Plan]] (PDF), and here is the [[2013-2014_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers|Questions and Answers]] page related to it.<br />
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=== Where can I learn more about your recent activities? ===<br />
For the fiscal year 2011-12, please '''download the 2011-2012 Annual Report:''' '''[[Media:WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
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If you want to keep up with Wikimedia events more regularly, we recommend the following sources:<br />
* the [//blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation blog]<br />
* [//en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Planet Wikimedia], which includes Wikimedia community blogs<br />
* the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaAnnounce-l Wikimedia Announcements mailing list], which includes announcements from chapters and community members<br />
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=== How can I donate via debit or credit card? ===<br />
:To donate using any major credit or debit card ''(VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express)'', PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer; please visit {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=our fundraising page}}. Our donation options support many (although not all) currencies.<br />
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===What other options exist to allow me to donate?===<br />
Alternative ways to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation include:<br />
:*<html><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?form-countryspecific=Form-countryspecific-monthly&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_source=Waystogive&utm_campaign=C11_Waystogive"> setting up an automatic monthly gift </a></html>...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Via_regular_mail|sending check via regular mail]]...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Stock_donation|making a stock donation]]...<br />
:*[[Donate/Match_Your_Gift/en|using your employer's matching gift program]]<br />
:*[http://ematch.hepdata.com:8080/ematch/search/wikimedia check to see if your employer will match your gift]<br />
:*[[Legacy_Gift|make a Legacy Gift to ensure Wikipedia is around for generations to come]]<br />
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=== Why does the Wikimedia Foundation not currently accept Bitcoin? ===<br />
[[w:Bitcoin|Bitcoin]] is a form of [[w:Crypto-currency|crypto-currency]]; in their own words, "an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world."(<small>[http://bitcoin.org/ Bitcoin P2P Digital Currency]. Retrieved 2 November 2011.</small>) The Wikimedia Foundation's position on the matter is as follows:<br />
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<blockquote>The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money. This has been interpreted to mean that we do not accept "artificial" currencies – that is, those not backed by the full faith and credit of an issuing government. We do, however, strive to provide as many methods of donating as possible and continue to monitor Bitcoin with interest and may revisit this position should circumstances change.</blockquote><br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation does try to make donating as easy as possible, however. For a list of ways to give, see [[Ways to Give]].<br />
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=== Are my donations tax-deductible? ===<br />
Please refer to the [[Tax_Deductibility/en| information on tax-deductibility]] for the details of tax-deductions and tax receipts.<br />
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=== Why is there a minimum donation? ===<br />
We receive small donations from people who don't have much money, and we are really, really grateful to those donors. <br />
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Unfortunately it is not uncommon for people to use donation mechanisms such as ours to test stolen credit cards to see if they work. Those people typically use a very small amount for their testing: a $1 minimum donation amount seems to deter them.<br />
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=== What is your donor privacy policy? ===<br />
We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our [[Donor policy|Donor Privacy Policy]] for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.<br />
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===What is your refund policy?===<br />
If for any reason you wish to have your donation refunded, please contact us via email at donate{{@}}wikimedia.org. We will need the following information in order to process your refund:<br />
*Date of donation (All refund requests must be made within 90 days of donation)<br />
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*Amount donated (Donations above USD $10,000 are considered major donations and are subject to the applicable grant agreement between the Foundation and the donor)<br />
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*Full name<br />
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*Payment method used (credit card, bank transfer, E-wallet, ...)<br />
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*Country of origin <br />
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*Reason for the refund<br />
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Please note that some payment methods may not support refunds, or require refunds to be made through the payment method (card) utilised, so additional information may be required to process your refund. All refunds will be processed as quickly as possible, but processing times may vary depending on the payment method.<br />
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=== What can I do to help you spread the word? ===<br />
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Spread the word any way you can! Tell your friends and family. Tell them what Wikipedia means to you. Ask them if they use it and if so, what it means to them. Use this text as the signature file on the bottom of your emails: <br />
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<tt> We’ve created the greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: https://donate.wikimedia.org</tt><br />
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Join us on social media by following our social media accounts:<br />
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=== How can I contact the Foundation? ===<br />
If you still have questions or concerns please feel free to contact us. <br />
For donation questions you can email donate{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
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For other questions see the ''[[Contact us]]'' page for more details.<br />
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This page lists '''frequently asked questions''' about the Wikimedia Foundation. Other questions are answered [[Answers|here]]. If you do not find your question answered here or there, please feel free to [[contact us]].<br />
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=== In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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[//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than {{ALL-WP-COUNT|million=true}} million volunteer-authored articles in over {{WP-EDITIONS-COUNT}} languages, and is visited by more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world. <br />
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It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past ten years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and [[our projects|other free knowledge projects]]. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our [[Media:501%28c%293_Letter.png|letter of tax-exemption]] and our [[financial reports|financial reports and annual filings]]. <br />
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Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a [[local chapters|network of chapters]] in many different countries to achieve this goal.<br />
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=== If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go? ===<br />
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Money you donate pays for staff salaries and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects together reach {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, we employ only {{STAFF-COUNT}} people; see our [[staff]] overview. <br />
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Our staff is divided into three program departments: technology (website operations, software development); legal, communications, and community advocacy (public outreach, community programs, legal defense); and learning and grantmaking (supporting chapter programs and growing Wikimedia worldwide). The remainder of our staff work in management, finance, and administration. Your support also pays for servers, bandwidth, and Internet hosting that allow us to keep Wikimedia's projects running and growing.<br />
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Above all, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the vast network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects – more than 80,000 people around the world.<br />
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=== Where can I find more financial information? ===<br />
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The '''Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 annual report''' covers the fiscal year of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Now in its fifth edition, the Foundation's annual report expresses 'how the world tells its story' through the incredible work of our multilingual projects, and describes the priorities, challenges, and achievements within our movement. <br />
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The '''2013-14 Annual Plan''' is our budget for the current fiscal year. It contains a summary of our strategic goals, financial details on spending and revenue, and detailed explanations and risk analysis.<br />
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Click the images below to download copies of our Annual Reports or our Annual Plan.<br />
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| '''Download the 2011–12 Annual Report:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:WMF-AR 2011–12 EN SHIP2 17dec12 300dpi hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
| '''Download the 2013–14 Annual Plan:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf|PDF version (402 KB)]]'''<br />
* '''[[2013-2014 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Annual Plan questions and answers]]'''<br />
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=== What are your plans? Where is this going? ===<br />
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As Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." <br />
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We're serious about this vision. Every month, more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people around the world already use Wikipedia. It's available online, on your mobile device, on DVD, in books, and many other forms. We aspire to reach everyone, and to continually provide more and better information.<br />
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Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the [[Board_of_Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees]] set "big, hairy, audacious goals" for Wikimedia. These [[Media:Wikimedia Five-Year Targets.pdf|five-year targets]] (PDF) include increasing Wikimedia's global reach to '''1 billion people''' and the number of articles in Wikipedia to '''50 million'''. We're also setting out to dramatically increase and diversify '''participation''', and to measure and improve '''quality''' of all Wikimedia content.<br />
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Wikimedia is not a traditional organization. It's a global movement. The core of the work is done by thousands of volunteers worldwide. This volunteer community is supported by a network of organizations, with the Wikimedia Foundation at its center, working in partnership with geographically focused [[local chapters]] in {{CHAPTER-COUNT}} countries. It's our volunteer community that enables us to accomplish so much with so little.<br />
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These are some of the activities we're focused on right now:<br />
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{| cellpadding="10px"<br />
| [[File:Wikimedia Foundation Servers-8055 32.jpg|300px]] || '''Operating the world's fifth largest web property.''' At its heart, the Wikimedia Foundation requires operational excellence to continue to exist. As of 2011, we're operating several hundred servers in three locations. While our global traffic continues to grow, our aim is to provide the best possible site experience to everyone in the world, to maximize uptime, and to ensure that all the information in Wikimedia projects is safe and secure.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: Wikimedia Foundation servers in our Florida hosting facility.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Wikipedia-Affinity.jpg|300px]]<br />
|| <br />
'''Giving Wikimedia's volunteers the best possible tools to do their work.''' The core technology that makes Wikipedia and its sister projects possible, the wiki, was invented in 1995. Things have changed quite a bit since then. Wikimedia Foundation projects run on an open source wiki software called MediaWiki, which we develop and improve. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute knowledge, and to give volunteers and readers great tools for assessing and improving article quality. In some areas, we lead and innovate. At minimum, we must keep up with key trends in the ever-changing web we're part of. Because our software is open source, everyone can use and improve it.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: [[w:Affinity diagram|Affinity diagram]] created based on Wikipedia usability research.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Great Feeling.ogv|300px]] <br />
|| <br />
'''Developing recruiting resources for new volunteers.''' Wikimedia is made of people. To grow our global community, we need to excite people about the prospect of being part of it – and help them with their first steps. To this end, we develop and maintain a library of outreach resources, such as videos and screencasts, but also printed "how-tos" and other more targeted resources (for teachers, librarians, students, and others). See the [[outreach:Bookshelf|bookshelf of outreach resources]].<br />
<br />
''Video: Wikimedia volunteers speak about their motivations, shot at the Wikimania 2010 conference. Having trouble playing the video? [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1JN6m0FTI View it on YouTube.]''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Pelatihan Peserta di Universitas Mercubuana.JPG|300px]] <br />
|| <br />
'''Staging outreach and community events world-wide.''' Once a year, hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers come together at [//wikimania.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania], in a different location around the world each year. (You should come! In Summer 2013 [//wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania will be in Hong Kong].) And, Wikimedia's chapter organizations have staged dozens of additional events, competitions and conferences around the world. Some are targeted at recruiting new volunteers; some give the community space to think about its work, and to do it. Recognizing the value of people coming together because they are passionate about Wikimedia's mission has been key to our success.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: Participants of the "Free Your Knowledge" student competition in Indonesia listening to an introductory presentation (2010).''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Backstage Pass at the British Museum 18.jpg|300px]] || '''Partnering with cultural institutions.''' Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums protect and make available the world's history, culture and knowledge. Their mission is to serve and inform the public, just like Wikimedia's. We've successfully partnered with cultural institutions around the world – not just in working with them to make digital reproductions available for free, but also in improving Wikipedia articles and other content related to their collections and archives. Wikimedia chapters are playing a lead role in organizing conferences and meetings targeting the cultural sector, and executing partnerships.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: Wikipedia volunteers at a "backstage pass" event organized by the British Museum (2010).''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:IndianaPPIclass.jpg|300px]] || '''Working with the educational sector.''' In the age of the open web, there's the potential for student projects to be more than just exercises. Pioneering professors have long assigned Wikipedia writing as coursework to their students. Everybody wins: students get an audience for their work, teachers successfully motivate their students, and readers get better articles. Wikimedia chapters have also reached out to schools to develop media literacy and to promote responsible use of Wikipedia in the classroom.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: Indiana University students of Barry Rubin's Seminar in Urban Economic Development are improving Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:PSP using the new interface for Wikipedia mobile - 2.jpg|300px]] <br />
|| <br />
'''Providing access to Wikipedia everywhere.''' The next billion people to discover the web will do it using mobile phones, some without ever having touched a laptop. We need to make sure that our sites and services work both on modern smartphones and (to the extent it's possible) on lower-end devices. Our current mobile version is a start and we'll continue to improve it (including moving beyond the read-only experience). And for people with no or intermittent Internet access, we're supporting copies of Wikipedia that can be used completely offline, including projects like [http://thewikireader.com/ the WikiReader], offline readers for desktops and smartphones, and printed versions of Wikimedia content.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: Wikipedia's mobile version works on the PlayStation Portable – and on your smartphone.''<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
[[File:QOTW 12-21.png|300px]]<br />
||<br />
'''Informing our decision-making with facts and data.''' Analytics, research, experiments and forecasts are essential to make good decisions in a complex environment like Wikimedia. The [http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Foundation Report Card] and the [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ Statistics Portal] provide a wealth of up-to-date analysis which helps us understand the impact of our work. [[m:Research/Projects|Research projects]] provide us with in-depth analysis and experiments, supported by the volunteer-driven [[m:Research Committee|Research Committee]]. We're data nerds – what else would you expect from the kinds of people who love working on an online encyclopedia?<br />
<br />
''Illustration: Projection regarding availability of mature language editions useful to different segments of the world's population.''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a start-up company that will fade away in a few years. We're in this for the long haul. Everything we do is aimed at providing you, and the rest of the world, with free and immediate access to all the world's knowledge. Join us!<br />
<br />
=== Which projects do you support? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of [//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. <br />
<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is [[w:Wikipedia:WikiLeaks is not part of Wikipedia|not affiliated]] with WikiLeaks.<br />
<br />
'''More information may be found on the page about [[our projects]].'''<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation run? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has a [[staff]] of {{STAFF-COUNT}}, led by the Executive Director, [[User:Sue_Gardner|Sue Gardner]]. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ''ad hoc'' basis.<br />
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The [[Board of Trustees]] articulates the [[Mission_statement|mission]] and [[vision]] of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See [[Meetings]] for published Board minutes and [[Resolutions]] for published Board resolutions. The Board is comprised of ten members, with three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]]; one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for [[Board of Trustees#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]); and four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats. The Board is supported by an [[Advisory Board]].<br />
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We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees work. All Board members and remaining staff work remotely.<br />
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We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published [[policies|key policies]] and [[finance report|financial information]].<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=donations}} from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.<br />
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'''We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.'''<br />
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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 [[Tax Deductibility/en|tax deductibility]] for details. Click [[Ways to Give/en|here]] for details on how to make a donation via credit/debit card, PayPal, Amazon, or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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=== Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue? ===<br />
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.<br />
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The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.<br />
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We are not against the world of online advertising, nor are we against other organizations that host ads. We just know ads are not an appropriate thing to find in a project devoted to education and knowledge – and especially one that strives for balance and neutrality.<br />
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=== How much money are you hoping to raise? ===<br />
The 2012-13 plan posits revenue of $46.1 million, a 32% increase over projected revenue of $34.8 million for 2011-12.<br />
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More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]]. Here is our [[Media:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf|2012-13 Plan]] (PDF), and here is the [[2012-2013 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Questions and Answers]] page related to it.<br />
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=== Where can I learn more about your recent activities? ===<br />
For the fiscal year 2011-12, please '''download the 2011-2012 Annual Report:''' '''[[Media:WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
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If you want to keep up with Wikimedia events more regularly, we recommend the following sources:<br />
* the [//blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation blog]<br />
* [//en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Planet Wikimedia], which includes Wikimedia community blogs<br />
* the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaAnnounce-l Wikimedia Announcements mailing list], which includes announcements from chapters and community members<br />
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=== How can I donate via debit or credit card? ===<br />
:To donate using any major credit or debit card ''(VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express)'', PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer; please visit {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=our fundraising page}}. Our donation options support many (although not all) currencies.<br />
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Alternative ways to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation include:<br />
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=== Why does the Wikimedia Foundation not currently accept Bitcoin? ===<br />
[[w:Bitcoin|Bitcoin]] is a form of [[w:Crypto-currency|crypto-currency]]; in their own words, "an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world."(<small>[http://bitcoin.org/ Bitcoin P2P Digital Currency]. Retrieved 2 November 2011.</small>) The Wikimedia Foundation's position on the matter is as follows:<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation does try to make donating as easy as possible, however. For a list of ways to give, see [[Ways to Give]].<br />
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=== Are my donations tax-deductible? ===<br />
Please refer to the [[Tax_Deductibility/en| information on tax-deductibility]] for the details of tax-deductions and tax receipts.<br />
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=== Why is there a minimum donation? ===<br />
We receive small donations from people who don't have much money, and we are really, really grateful to those donors. <br />
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Unfortunately it is not uncommon for people to use donation mechanisms such as ours to test stolen credit cards to see if they work. Those people typically use a very small amount for their testing: a $1 minimum donation amount seems to deter them.<br />
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=== What is your donor privacy policy? ===<br />
We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our [[Donor policy|Donor Privacy Policy]] for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.<br />
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===What is your refund policy?===<br />
If for any reason you wish to have your donation refunded, please contact us via email at donate{{@}}wikimedia.org. We will need the following information in order to process your refund:<br />
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=== What can I do to help you spread the word? ===<br />
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:Пожалуйста, укажите в чеке получателем «Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.». Не посылайте по почте наличные деньги.<br />
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:Пожалуйста, [[Monthly donations/en|нажмите сюда]], чтобы создать автоматически перечисляемое ежемесячное пожертвование.<br />
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==== Фондовое пожертвование (пожертвование ценных бумаг) ====<br />
:Чтобы перевести средства с вашего брокерского счёта на наш, пожалуйста, укажите брокеру наш номер счёта и расчётный номер DTCC. После завершения транзакции пришлите, пожалуйста, письмо на адрес donate{{@}}wikimedia.org, чтобы мы могли проверить транзакцию.<br />
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:[[Donate/Match Your Gift/en|Программы поддержки благотворительности]] — это отличный и лёгкий способ удвоить или даже утроить ваше пожертвование Фонду Викимедиа.<br />
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:Узнать больше о подобных программах или о нашем участии в программе «Combined Federal Campaign» (CFC) можно [[Donate/Match Your Gift/en|здесь]].<br />
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:Делайте пожертвования, используя [[Mobile Giving|мобильный телефон]]. Достаточно прислать текст WIKI на номер 25383, более подробно об этом можно узнать [[Mobile Giving|здесь]]. (Доступно только в сетях мобильных операторов США.)<br />
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Фонд Викимедиа (Wikimedia Foundation) обеспечивает материальную основу для функционирования Википедии. Это некоммерческая организация с офисом в Сан-Франциско, штат Калифорния (США), пожертвования в адрес которой [[deductibility of donations|освобождены от налогообложения]] в соответствии с разделом 501(c)(3) Кодекса внутренних сборов США. Наш Employer Identification Number: 20-0049703<br />
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Подробную информацию о наших программах и о финансовых вопросах вы можете найти в нашем '''[[FAQ/ru|перечне часто задаваемых вопросов]]'''. Вы можете сделать пожертвование одним из следующих способов:<br />
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==== Банковские карты или Paypal ====<br />
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:Все транзакции с использованием банковских карт обрабатываются PayPal. Нажмите [[{{#ifexist:Donate/Now/{{SUBPAGENAME}}|Donate/Now/{{SUBPAGENAME}}|Donate/Now/en}}|сюда]] чтобы внести пожертвование с использованием карты систем Visa, MasterCard, American Express, или Discover.<br />
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==== Пожертвование по почте ====<br />
:Пожалуйста, укажите в чеке получателем «Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.». Не посылайте по почте наличные деньги.<br />
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==== Регулярный ежемесячный платёж ====<br />
:Пожалуйста, [[Monthly donations/en|нажмите сюда]], чтобы создать автоматически перечисляемое ежемесячное пожертвование.<br />
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==== Фондовое пожертвование (пожертвование ценных бумаг) ====<br />
:Чтобы перевести средства с вашего брокерского счёта на наш, пожалуйста, укажите брокеру наш номер счёта и расчётный номер DTCC. После завершения транзакции пришлите, пожалуйста, письмо на адрес donate{{@}}wikimedia.org, чтобы мы могли проверить транзакцию.<br />
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:Если вам потребуется какая-либо помощь — пожалуйста, пришлите письмо на адрес donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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==== Банковский перевод ====<br />
:Фонд Викимедиа может принимать платежи на следующие два банковских счёта:<br />
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==== Корпоративные программы поддержки благотворительности ====<br />
:[[Donate/Match Your Gift/en|Программы поддержки благотворительности]] — это отличный и лёгкий способ удвоить или даже утроить ваше пожертвование Фонду Викимедиа.<br />
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:Узнать больше о подобных программах или о нашем участии в программе «Combined Federal Campaign» (CFC) можно [[Donate/Match Your Gift/en|здесь]].<br />
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:Если у вас возникнут дополнительные вопросы — пожалуйста, пришлите письмо на адрес donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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==== Moneybookers ====<br />
:Мы зарегистрированы в системе [http://moneybookers.com moneybookers.com]. Вы можете присылать свои пожертвования на адрес donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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==== Мобильные платежи ====<br />
:Делайте пожертвования, используя [[Mobile Giving|мобильный телефон]]. Достаточно прислать текст WIKI на номер 25383, более подробно об этом можно узнать [[Mobile Giving|здесь]]. (Доступно только в сетях мобильных операторов США.)<br />
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==== Вычеты из заработной платы ====<br />
:Некоторые работодатели предлагают простой и удобный способ перечисления пожертвований Фонду Викимедиа путём удержаний из заработной платы. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с руководством своей организации, чтобы узнать о наличии такой услуги, и отправьте любые необходимые документы на следующий адрес:<br />
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[[Category:Desktop-only pages]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Problems_donating/en&diff=93486Problems donating/en2013-08-28T22:05:32Z<p>Jvandavier: </p>
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The Wikimedia Foundation donation website is extremely secure and powered by [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]. After clicking a banner or following a donation link, the page you're taken to is on a secured site (https); all information is encrypted and handled following the highest standard of data protection.<br />
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We're sorry that we're currently unable to offer your preferred method of payment; in future fundraisers, we hope to have better options for donation in additional currencies. Please be sure to check the following URL for other options that may be available to you at this time: '''[[Ways_to_Give/en|other ways to give]]'''.<br />
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* <!--T:3c-->Your credit/debit card should be enabled for International use. Cards that can only be used in country (AKA Domestic cards) may not be accepted at this time. Please call your bank and request international access to be enabled.<br />
* <!--T:3d-->United States, United Kingdom and Canadian credit cards will only be accepted in these respective countries.<br />
* <!--T:3e-->Not all Virtual Cards may be accepted at this time. Virtual cards are frequently used for online purchases to protect your physical card's sensitive information. However, rest assured that our donation processing is backed up by professional, fully compliant processors and your information is extremely secure. So if your virtual card gets rejected, please use your regular credit/debit card instead.<br />
* <!--T:3f-->If you are using your debit card, please notice that the security code (C V V) is optional. If your debit card doesn't have a C V V just skip that field.<br />
* Your bank may have flagged the transaction. This is particularly likely if this is the first time you are donating to Wikimedia. Please call your bank and request they unblock future transactions to Wikimedia so that your future donations will be processed.<br />
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If you received an error message stating that your transaction could not be accepted, your donation was not processed or accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation. A charge may show up on your card, held by your bank, as this is standard operating procedure for any online transaction. Your bank will release these funds in about 3-5 business days, depending upon their rules and regulations. If you would like to attempt a donation again, please visit our [[Ways to Give/en|ways to give page]] for a full range of options.<br />
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Please don't worry if you see a warning/error certificate while trying to donate. It is likely due to an outdated version of your browser. Please update your browser to a newer version or use a different browser.<br />
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The fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation is small, so please be sure to read through the common questions above. Please also take the time to review our [[frequently asked questions]], as this may help resolve any problems you are experiencing. If you still have doubts or need help tracking your transaction, please contact '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
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[[Category:Problems donating]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Problems_donating/en&diff=93455Problems donating/en2013-08-23T06:33:33Z<p>Jvandavier: </p>
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The Wikimedia Foundation donation website is extremely secure and powered by [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]. After clicking a banner or following a donation link, the page you're taken to is on a secured site (https); all information is encrypted and handled following the highest standard of data protection.<br />
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<div class="expand">My preferred payment method is not yet offered by the Wikimedia Foundation.</div><br />
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We're sorry that we're currently unable to offer your preferred method of payment; in future fundraisers, we hope to have better options for donation in additional currencies. Please be sure to check the following URL for other options that may be available to you at this time: '''[[Ways_to_Give/en|other ways to give]]'''.<br />
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<div class="expand">Why did my credit/debit card donation get rejected?</div><br />
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If your payment was rejected or if you were not able to enter your card information on our donation page, please check your debit/credit card for the following cases:<br />
* <!--T:3c-->Your credit/debit card should be enabled for International use. Cards that can only be used in country (AKA Domestic cards) may not be accepted at this time Please call your bank and request international access to be enabled.<br />
* <!--T:3d-->United States, United Kingdom and Canadian credit cards will only be accepted in these respective countries.<br />
* <!--T:3e-->Not all Virtual Cards may be accepted at this time. Virtual cards are frequently used for online purchases to protect your physical card's sensitive nformation. However, rest assured that our donation processing is backed up by professional, fully compliant processors and your information is extremely secure. So if our virtual card gets rejected, please use your regular credit/debit card instead.<br />
* <!--T:3f-->If you are using your debit card, please notice that the security code (C V V) is optional. If your debit card doesn't have a C V V just skip that field.<br />
* Your bank may have flagged the transaction. This is particularly likely if this is the first time you are donating to Wikimedia. Please call your bank and request they unblock future transactions to Wikimedia so that your future donations will be processed.<br />
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<div class="expand">I received an error message, but I still see a charge on my credit/debit card</div><br />
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If you received an error message stating that your transaction could not be accepted, your donation was not processed or accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation. A charge may show up on your card, held by your bank, as this is standard operating procedure for any online transaction. Your bank will release these funds in about 3-5 business days, depending upon their rules and regulations. If you would like to attempt a donation again, please visit our [[Ways to Give/en|ways to give page]] for a full range of options.<br />
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<div class="expand">Why did I get a warning/error certificate while trying to donate?</div><br />
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Please don't worry if you see a warning/error certificate while trying to donate. It is likely due to an outdated version of your browser. Please update your browser to a newer version or use a different browser. If the problem persists, please email us at '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
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<div class="expand">Still having trouble?</div><br />
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The fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation is small, so please be sure to read through the common questions above. Please also take the time to review our [[frequently asked questions]], as this may help resolve any problems you are experiencing. If you still have doubts or need help tracking your transaction, please contact '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
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[[Category:Problems donating]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Problems_donating/en&diff=93454Problems donating/en2013-08-23T06:30:49Z<p>Jvandavier: </p>
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<div class="expand">Is this site secure?</div><br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation donation website is extremely secure and powered by [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]. After clicking a banner or following a donation link, the page you're taken to is on a secured site (https); all information is encrypted and handled following the highest standard of data protection.<br />
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<div class="expand">My preferred payment method is not yet offered by the Wikimedia Foundation.</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
We're sorry that we're currently unable to offer your preferred method of payment; in future fundraisers, we hope to have better options for donation in additional currencies. Please be sure to check the following URL for other options that may be available to you at this time: '''[[Ways_to_Give/en|other ways to give]]'''.<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">Why did my credit/debit card donation get rejected?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
If your payment was rejected or if you were not able to enter your card information on our donation page, please check your debit/credit card for the following cases:<br />
* <!--T:3c-->Your credit/debit card should be enabled for International use. Cards that can only be used in country (AKA Domestic cards) may not be accepted at this time Please call your bank and request international access to be enabled.<br />
* <!--T:3d-->United States, United Kingdom and Canadian credit cards will only be accepted in these respective countries.<br />
* <!--T:3e-->Not all Virtual Cards may be accepted at this time. Virtual cards are frequently used for online purchases to protect your physical card's sensitive nformation. However, rest assured that our donation processing is backed up by professional, fully compliant processors and your information is extremely secure. So if our virtual card gets rejected, please use your regular credit/debit card instead.<br />
* <!--T:3f-->If you are using your debit card, please notice that the security code (C V V) is optional. If your debit card doesn't have a C V V just skip that field.<br />
* Your bank may have flagged the transaction. This is particularly likely if this is the first time you are donating to Wikimedia. Please call your bank and request they unblock future transactions to Wikimedia so that your future donations will be processed.<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">I received an error message, but I still see a charge on my credit/debit card</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
If you received an error message stating that your transaction could not be accepted, your donation was not processed or accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation. A charge may show up on your card, held by your bank, as this is standard operating procedure for any online transaction. Your bank will release these funds in about 3-5 business days, depending upon their rules and regulations. If you would like to attempt a donation again, please visit our [[Ways to Give/en|ways to give page]] for a full range of options.<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">Why did I get a warning/error certificate while trying to donate?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Please don't worry if you see a warning/error certificate while trying to donate. It is likely due to an outdated version of your browser. Please update your browser to a newer version or use a different browser. If the problem persists, please email us at '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
</div><br />
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</div><br />
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The fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation is small, so please be sure to read through the common questions above. Please also take the time to review our [[frequently asked questions]], as this may help resolve any problems you are experiencing. If you still have doubts or need help tracking your transaction, please contact '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
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[[Category:Problems donating]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Problems_donating/en&diff=93453Problems donating/en2013-08-23T06:25:03Z<p>Jvandavier: </p>
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The Wikimedia Foundation donation website is extremely secure and powered by [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]. After clicking a banner or following a donation link, the page you're taken to is on a secured site (https); all information is encrypted and handled following the highest standard of data protection.<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">My preferred payment method is not yet offered by the Wikimedia Foundation.</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
We're sorry that we're currently unable to offer your preferred method of payment; in future fundraisers, we hope to have better options for donation in additional currencies. Please be sure to check the following URL for other options that may be available to you at this time: '''[[Ways_to_Give/en|other ways to give]]'''.<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">Why did my credit/debit card donation get rejected?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
If your payment was rejected or if you were not able to enter your card information on our donation page, please check your debit/credit card for the following cases:<br />
* <!--T:3c-->Your credit/debit card should be enabled for International use. Cards that can only be used in country (AKA Domestic cards) may not be accepted at this time Please call your bank and request international access to be enabled.<br />
* <!--T:3d-->United States, United Kingdom and Canadian credit cards will only be accepted in these respective countries.<br />
* <!--T:3e-->Not all Virtual Cards may be accepted at this time. Virtual cards are frequently used for online purchases to protect your physical card's sensitive nformation. However, rest assured that our donation processing is backed up by professional, fully compliant processors and your information is extremely secure. So if our virtual card gets rejected, please use your regular credit/debit card instead.<br />
* <!--T:3f-->If you are using your debit card, please notice that the security code (C V V) is optional. If your debit card doesn't have a C V V just skip that field.<br />
* Your bank may have flagged the transaction. This is particularly likely if this is the first time you are donating to Wikimedia. Please call your bank and request they unblock future transactions to Wikimedia so that your future donations will be processed.<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">Why did I get a warning/error certificate while trying to donate?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Please don't worry if you see a warning/error certificate while trying to donate. It is likely due to an outdated version of your browser. Please update your browser to a newer version or use a different browser. If the problem persists, please email us at '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
</div><br />
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</div><br />
<br />
The fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation is small, so please be sure to read through the common questions above. Please also take the time to review our [[frequently asked questions]], as this may help resolve any problems you are experiencing. If you still have doubts or need help tracking your transaction, please contact '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
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[[Category:{{#language:en}}]]<br />
[[Category:Problems donating]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Problems_donating/en&diff=93452Problems donating/en2013-08-23T06:06:09Z<p>Jvandavier: </p>
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<div class="expand">Is this site secure?</div><br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation donation website is extremely secure and powered by Verisign Trusted. After clicking a banner or following a donation link, the page you're taken to is on a secured site (https); all information is encrypted and handled following the highest standard of data protection.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="expand">My preferred payment method is not yet offered by the Wikimedia Foundation.</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
We're sorry that we're currently unable to offer your preferred method of payment; in future fundraisers, we hope to have better options for donation in additional currencies. Please be sure to check the following URL for other options that may be available to you at this time: '''[[Ways_to_Give/en|other ways to give]]'''.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="expand">Why did my credit/debit card donation get rejected?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
If your payment was rejected or if you were not able to enter your card information on our donation page, please check your debit/credit card for the following cases:<br />
* <!--T:3c-->Your credit/debit card should be enabled for International use. Cards that can only be used in country (AKA Domestic cards) may not be accepted at this time Please call your bank and request international access to be enabled.<br />
* <!--T:3d-->United States, United Kingdom and Canadian credit cards will only be accepted in these respective countries.<br />
* <!--T:3e-->Not all Virtual Cards may be accepted at this time. Virtual cards are frequently used for online purchases to protect your physical card's sensitive nformation. However, rest assured that our donation processing is backed up by professional, fully compliant processors and your information is extremely secure. So if our virtual card gets rejected, please use your regular credit/debit card instead.<br />
* <!--T:3f-->If you are using your debit card, please notice that the security code (C V V) is optional. If your debit card doesn't have a C V V just skip that field.<br />
* Your bank may have flagged the transaction. This is particularly likely if this is the first time you are donating to Wikimedia. Please call your bank and request they unblock future transactions to Wikimedia so that your future donations will be processed.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="expand">Why did I get a warning/error certificate while trying to donate?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Please don't worry if you see a warning/error certificate while trying to donate. It is likely due to an outdated version of your browser. Please update your browser to a newer version or use a different browser. If the problem persists, please email us at '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
</div><br />
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</div><br />
<br />
The fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation is small, so please be sure to read through the common questions above. Please also take the time to review our [[frequently asked questions]], as this may help resolve any problems you are experiencing. If you still have doubts or need help tracking your transaction, please contact '''''<tt>[mailto:donate@wikimedia.org donate{{@}}wikimedia.org]</tt>'''''.<br />
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[[Category:Problems donating]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=FAQ/en&diff=93014FAQ/en2013-08-01T23:09:46Z<p>Jvandavier: /* If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go? */</p>
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=== In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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[//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than {{ALL-WP-COUNT|million=true}} million volunteer-authored articles in over {{WP-EDITIONS-COUNT}} languages, and is visited by more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world. <br />
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It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past ten years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and [[our projects|other free knowledge projects]]. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our [[Media:501%28c%293_Letter.png|letter of tax-exemption]] and our [[financial reports|financial reports and annual filings]]. <br />
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Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a [[local chapters|network of chapters]] in many different countries to achieve this goal.<br />
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=== If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go? ===<br />
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Money you donate pays for staff salaries and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects together reach {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, we employ only {{STAFF-COUNT}} people; see our [[staff]] overview. <br />
<br />
Our staff is divided into three program departments: technology (website operations, software development); legal, communications, and community advocacy (public outreach, community programs, legal defense); and learning and grantmaking (supporting chapter programs and growing Wikimedia worldwide). The remainder of our staff work in management, finance, and administration. Your support also pays for servers, bandwidth, and Internet hosting that allow us to keep Wikimedia's projects running and growing.<br />
<br />
Above all, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the vast network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects – more than 80,000 people around the world.<br />
<br />
=== Where can I find more financial information? ===<br />
<br />
The '''Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 annual report''' covers the fiscal year of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Now in its fifth edition, the Foundation's annual report expresses 'how the world tells its story' through the incredible work of our multilingual projects, and describes the priorities, challenges, and achievements within our movement. <br />
<br />
The '''2012-13 Annual Plan''' is our budget for the current fiscal year. It contains a summary of our strategic goals, financial details on spending and revenue, and detailed explanations and risk analysis.<br />
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Click the images below to download copies of our Annual Reports or our Annual Plan.<br />
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| [[File:WMF Annual Report 2011–12 EN cover rgb 300ppi.png|250px|border|2011–2012 Annual Report|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|center]]<br />
| [[File:2012-13 Wikimedia Foundation Plan FINAL FOR WEBSITE.pdf|435px|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf]]<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| '''Download the 2011–12 Annual Report:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:WMF-AR 2011–12 EN SHIP2 17dec12 300dpi hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
| '''Download the 2012–13 Annual Plan:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:2012-13 Wikimedia Foundation Plan FINAL FOR WEBSITE.pdf|PDF version (400 KB)]]'''<br />
* '''[[2012-2013 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Annual Plan questions and answers]]'''<br />
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=== What are your plans? Where is this going? ===<br />
<br />
As Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." <br />
<br />
We're serious about this vision. Every month, more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people around the world already use Wikipedia. It's available online, on your mobile device, on DVD, in books, and many other forms. We aspire to reach everyone, and to continually provide more and better information.<br />
<br />
Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the [[Board_of_Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees]] set "big, hairy, audacious goals" for Wikimedia. These [[Media:Wikimedia Five-Year Targets.pdf|five-year targets]] (PDF) include increasing Wikimedia's global reach to '''1 billion people''' and the number of articles in Wikipedia to '''50 million'''. We're also setting out to dramatically increase and diversify '''participation''', and to measure and improve '''quality''' of all Wikimedia content.<br />
<br />
Wikimedia is not a traditional organization. It's a global movement. The core of the work is done by thousands of volunteers worldwide. This volunteer community is supported by a network of organizations, with the Wikimedia Foundation at its center, working in partnership with geographically focused [[local chapters]] in {{CHAPTER-COUNT}} countries. It's our volunteer community that enables us to accomplish so much with so little.<br />
<br />
These are some of the activities we're focused on right now:<br />
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{| cellpadding="10px"<br />
| [[File:Wikimedia Foundation Servers-8055 32.jpg|300px]] || '''Operating the world's fifth largest web property.''' At its heart, the Wikimedia Foundation requires operational excellence to continue to exist. As of 2011, we're operating several hundred servers in three locations. While our global traffic continues to grow, our aim is to provide the best possible site experience to everyone in the world, to maximize uptime, and to ensure that all the information in Wikimedia projects is safe and secure.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikimedia Foundation servers in our Florida hosting facility.''<br />
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| [[File:Wikipedia-Affinity.jpg|300px]]<br />
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'''Giving Wikimedia's volunteers the best possible tools to do their work.''' The core technology that makes Wikipedia and its sister projects possible, the wiki, was invented in 1995. Things have changed quite a bit since then. Wikimedia Foundation projects run on an open source wiki software called MediaWiki, which we develop and improve. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute knowledge, and to give volunteers and readers great tools for assessing and improving article quality. In some areas, we lead and innovate. At minimum, we must keep up with key trends in the ever-changing web we're part of. Because our software is open source, everyone can use and improve it.<br />
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''Photograph: [[w:Affinity diagram|Affinity diagram]] created based on Wikipedia usability research.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Great Feeling.ogv|300px]] <br />
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'''Developing recruiting resources for new volunteers.''' Wikimedia is made of people. To grow our global community, we need to excite people about the prospect of being part of it – and help them with their first steps. To this end, we develop and maintain a library of outreach resources, such as videos and screencasts, but also printed "how-tos" and other more targeted resources (for teachers, librarians, students, and others). See the [[outreach:Bookshelf|bookshelf of outreach resources]].<br />
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''Video: Wikimedia volunteers speak about their motivations, shot at the Wikimania 2010 conference. Having trouble playing the video? [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1JN6m0FTI View it on YouTube.]''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Pelatihan Peserta di Universitas Mercubuana.JPG|300px]] <br />
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'''Staging outreach and community events world-wide.''' Once a year, hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers come together at [//wikimania.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania], in a different location around the world each year. (You should come! In Summer 2013 [//wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania will be in Hong Kong].) And, Wikimedia's chapter organizations have staged dozens of additional events, competitions and conferences around the world. Some are targeted at recruiting new volunteers; some give the community space to think about its work, and to do it. Recognizing the value of people coming together because they are passionate about Wikimedia's mission has been key to our success.<br />
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''Photograph: Participants of the "Free Your Knowledge" student competition in Indonesia listening to an introductory presentation (2010).''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Backstage Pass at the British Museum 18.jpg|300px]] || '''Partnering with cultural institutions.''' Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums protect and make available the world's history, culture and knowledge. Their mission is to serve and inform the public, just like Wikimedia's. We've successfully partnered with cultural institutions around the world – not just in working with them to make digital reproductions available for free, but also in improving Wikipedia articles and other content related to their collections and archives. Wikimedia chapters are playing a lead role in organizing conferences and meetings targeting the cultural sector, and executing partnerships.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikipedia volunteers at a "backstage pass" event organized by the British Museum (2010).''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:IndianaPPIclass.jpg|300px]] || '''Working with the educational sector.''' In the age of the open web, there's the potential for student projects to be more than just exercises. Pioneering professors have long assigned Wikipedia writing as coursework to their students. Everybody wins: students get an audience for their work, teachers successfully motivate their students, and readers get better articles. Wikimedia chapters have also reached out to schools to develop media literacy and to promote responsible use of Wikipedia in the classroom.<br />
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''Photograph: Indiana University students of Barry Rubin's Seminar in Urban Economic Development are improving Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework.''<br />
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| [[File:PSP using the new interface for Wikipedia mobile - 2.jpg|300px]] <br />
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'''Providing access to Wikipedia everywhere.''' The next billion people to discover the web will do it using mobile phones, some without ever having touched a laptop. We need to make sure that our sites and services work both on modern smartphones and (to the extent it's possible) on lower-end devices. Our current mobile version is a start and we'll continue to improve it (including moving beyond the read-only experience). And for people with no or intermittent Internet access, we're supporting copies of Wikipedia that can be used completely offline, including projects like [http://thewikireader.com/ the WikiReader], offline readers for desktops and smartphones, and printed versions of Wikimedia content.<br />
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''Photograph: Wikipedia's mobile version works on the PlayStation Portable – and on your smartphone.''<br />
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'''Informing our decision-making with facts and data.''' Analytics, research, experiments and forecasts are essential to make good decisions in a complex environment like Wikimedia. The [http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Foundation Report Card] and the [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ Statistics Portal] provide a wealth of up-to-date analysis which helps us understand the impact of our work. [[m:Research/Projects|Research projects]] provide us with in-depth analysis and experiments, supported by the volunteer-driven [[m:Research Committee|Research Committee]]. We're data nerds – what else would you expect from the kinds of people who love working on an online encyclopedia?<br />
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''Illustration: Projection regarding availability of mature language editions useful to different segments of the world's population.''<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a start-up company that will fade away in a few years. We're in this for the long haul. Everything we do is aimed at providing you, and the rest of the world, with free and immediate access to all the world's knowledge. Join us!<br />
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=== Which projects do you support? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of [//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. <br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is [[w:Wikipedia:WikiLeaks is not part of Wikipedia|not affiliated]] with WikiLeaks.<br />
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'''More information may be found on the page about [[our projects]].'''<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation run? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has a [[staff]] of {{STAFF-COUNT}}, led by the Executive Director, [[User:Sue_Gardner|Sue Gardner]]. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ''ad hoc'' basis.<br />
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The [[Board of Trustees]] articulates the [[Mission_statement|mission]] and [[vision]] of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See [[Meetings]] for published Board minutes and [[Resolutions]] for published Board resolutions. The Board is comprised of ten members, with three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]]; one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for [[Board of Trustees#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]); and four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats. The Board is supported by an [[Advisory Board]].<br />
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We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees work. All Board members and remaining staff work remotely.<br />
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We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published [[policies|key policies]] and [[finance report|financial information]].<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=donations}} from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.<br />
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'''We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.'''<br />
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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. Click [[Ways to Give/en|here]] for details on how to make a donation via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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=== Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue? ===<br />
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.<br />
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The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.<br />
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We are not against the world of online advertising, nor are we against other organizations that host ads. We just know ads are not an appropriate thing to find in a project devoted to education and knowledge – and especially one that strives for balance and neutrality.<br />
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=== How much money are you hoping to raise? ===<br />
The 2012-13 plan posits revenue of $46.1 million, a 32% increase over projected revenue of $34.8 million for 2011-12.<br />
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More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]]. Here is our [[Media:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf|2012-13 Plan]] (PDF), and here is the [[2012-2013 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Questions and Answers]] page related to it.<br />
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=== Where can I learn more about your recent activities? ===<br />
For the fiscal year 2011-12, please '''download the 2011-2012 Annual Report:''' '''[[Media:WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
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If you want to keep up with Wikimedia events more regularly, we recommend the following sources:<br />
* the [//blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation blog]<br />
* [//en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Planet Wikimedia], which includes Wikimedia community blogs<br />
* the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaAnnounce-l Wikimedia Announcements mailing list], which includes announcements from chapters and community members<br />
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=== How can I donate via Debit or Credit card? ===<br />
:To donate using any major credit or debit card ''(VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express)'', PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer; please visit {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=our fundraising page}}. Our donation options support many (although not all) currencies.<br />
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===What other options exist to allow me to donate?===<br />
Alternative ways to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation include:<br />
:*<html><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?form-countryspecific=Form-countryspecific-monthly&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_source=Waystogive&utm_campaign=C11_Waystogive"> setting up an automatic monthly gift </a></html>...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Via_regular_mail|sending check via regular mail]]...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Stock_donation|making a stock donation]]...<br />
:*[[Donate/Match_Your_Gift/en|using your employer's matching gift program]]<br />
:*[http://ematch.hepdata.com:8080/ematch/search/wikimedia check to see if your employer will match your gift]<br />
:*[[Legacy_Gift|make a Legacy Gift to ensure Wikipedia is around for generations to come]]<br />
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=== Why does the Wikimedia Foundation not currently accept Bitcoin? ===<br />
[[w:Bitcoin|Bitcoin]] is a form of [[w:Crypto-currency|crypto-currency]]; in their own words, "an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world."(<small>[http://bitcoin.org/ Bitcoin P2P Digital Currency]. Retrieved 2 November 2011.</small>) The Wikimedia Foundation's position on the matter is as follows:<br />
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<blockquote>The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money. This has been interpreted to mean that we do not accept "artificial" currencies – that is, those not backed by the full faith and credit of an issuing government. We do, however, strive to provide as many methods of donating as possible and continue to monitor Bitcoin with interest and may revisit this position should circumstances change.</blockquote><br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation does try to make donating as easy as possible, however. For a list of ways to give, see [[Ways to Give]].<br />
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=== Are my donations tax-deductible? ===<br />
Please refer to the [[Tax_Deductibility/en| information on tax-deductibility]] for the details of tax-deductions and tax receipts.<br />
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=== Why is there a minimum donation? ===<br />
We receive small donations from people who don't have much money, and we are really, really grateful to those donors. <br />
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Unfortunately it is not uncommon for people to use donation mechanisms such as ours to test stolen credit cards to see if they work. Those people typically use a very small amount for their testing: a $1 minimum donation amount seems to deter them.<br />
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=== What is your donor privacy policy? ===<br />
We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our [[Donor policy|Donor Privacy Policy]] for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.<br />
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===What is your refund policy?===<br />
If for any reason you wish to have your donation refunded, please contact us via email at donate{{@}}wikimedia.org. We will need the following information in order to process your refund:<br />
*Date of donation (All refund requests must be made within 90 days of donation)<br />
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*Amount donated (Donations above USD $10,000 are considered major donations and are subject to the applicable grant agreement between the Foundation and the donor)<br />
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*Full name<br />
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*Payment method used (credit card, bank transfer, E-wallet, ...)<br />
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*Country of origin <br />
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*Reason for the refund<br />
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Please note that some payment methods may not support refunds, or require refunds to be made through the payment method (card) utilised, so additional information may be required to process your refund. All refunds will be processed as quickly as possible, but processing times may vary depending on the payment method.<br />
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=== What can I do to help you spread the word? ===<br />
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Spread the word any way you can! Tell your friends and family. Tell them what Wikipedia means to you. Ask them if they use it and if so, what it means to them. Use this text as the signature file on the bottom of your emails: <br />
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=== How can I contact the Foundation? ===<br />
If you still have questions or concerns please feel free to contact us. <br />
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This page lists '''frequently asked questions''' about the Wikimedia Foundation. Other questions are answered [[Answers|here]]. If you do not find your question answered here or there, please feel free to [[contact us]].<br />
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=== In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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[//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than {{ALL-WP-COUNT|million=true}} million volunteer-authored articles in over {{WP-EDITIONS-COUNT}} languages, and is visited by more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world. <br />
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It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past ten years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and [[our projects|other free knowledge projects]]. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our [[Media:501%28c%293_Letter.png|letter of tax-exemption]] and our [[financial reports|financial reports and annual filings]]. <br />
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Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a [[local chapters|network of chapters]] in many different countries to achieve this goal.<br />
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=== If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go? ===<br />
<br />
Money you donate pays for staff salaries and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects together reach {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, we employ only {{STAFF-COUNT}} people; see our [[staff]] overview. <br />
<br />
Our staff is divided into three program departments: technology (website operations, software development); legal, communications, and community advocacy (public outreach, community programs, legal defense); and learning and grantmaking (supporting chapter programs and growing Wikimedia worldwide). The remainder of our staff work in management, finance, and administration. Your support also pays for servers, bandwidth, and Internet hosting that allow us to keep Wikimedia's projects running and growing. If you donate to a [[local chapter]] in your geography, your donation supports both the Wikimedia Foundation, and program activities in your country.<br />
<br />
Above all, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the vast network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects – more than 80,000 people around the world.<br />
<br />
=== Where can I find more financial information? ===<br />
<br />
The '''Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 annual report''' covers the fiscal year of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Now in its fifth edition, the Foundation's annual report expresses 'how the world tells its story' through the incredible work of our multilingual projects, and describes the priorities, challenges, and achievements within our movement. <br />
<br />
The '''2012-13 Annual Plan''' is our budget for the current fiscal year. It contains a summary of our strategic goals, financial details on spending and revenue, and detailed explanations and risk analysis.<br />
<br />
Click the images below to download copies of our Annual Reports or our Annual Plan.<br />
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{| style="border:2px solid #eeeeee; background:white; margin:auto;"<br />
| [[File:WMF Annual Report 2011–12 EN cover rgb 300ppi.png|250px|border|2011–2012 Annual Report|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|center]]<br />
| [[File:2012-13 Wikimedia Foundation Plan FINAL FOR WEBSITE.pdf|435px|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf]]<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| '''Download the 2011–12 Annual Report:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:WMF-AR 2011–12 EN SHIP2 17dec12 300dpi hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
| '''Download the 2012–13 Annual Plan:'''<br />
* '''[[Media:2012-13 Wikimedia Foundation Plan FINAL FOR WEBSITE.pdf|PDF version (400 KB)]]'''<br />
* '''[[2012-2013 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Annual Plan questions and answers]]'''<br />
|}<br />
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=== What are your plans? Where is this going? ===<br />
<br />
As Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." <br />
<br />
We're serious about this vision. Every month, more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people around the world already use Wikipedia. It's available online, on your mobile device, on DVD, in books, and many other forms. We aspire to reach everyone, and to continually provide more and better information.<br />
<br />
Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the [[Board_of_Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees]] set "big, hairy, audacious goals" for Wikimedia. These [[Media:Wikimedia Five-Year Targets.pdf|five-year targets]] (PDF) include increasing Wikimedia's global reach to '''1 billion people''' and the number of articles in Wikipedia to '''50 million'''. We're also setting out to dramatically increase and diversify '''participation''', and to measure and improve '''quality''' of all Wikimedia content.<br />
<br />
Wikimedia is not a traditional organization. It's a global movement. The core of the work is done by thousands of volunteers worldwide. This volunteer community is supported by a network of organizations, with the Wikimedia Foundation at its center, working in partnership with geographically focused [[local chapters]] in {{CHAPTER-COUNT}} countries. It's our volunteer community that enables us to accomplish so much with so little.<br />
<br />
These are some of the activities we're focused on right now:<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="10px"<br />
| [[File:Wikimedia Foundation Servers-8055 32.jpg|300px]] || '''Operating the world's fifth largest web property.''' At its heart, the Wikimedia Foundation requires operational excellence to continue to exist. As of 2011, we're operating several hundred servers in three locations. While our global traffic continues to grow, our aim is to provide the best possible site experience to everyone in the world, to maximize uptime, and to ensure that all the information in Wikimedia projects is safe and secure.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: Wikimedia Foundation servers in our Florida hosting facility.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Wikipedia-Affinity.jpg|300px]]<br />
|| <br />
'''Giving Wikimedia's volunteers the best possible tools to do their work.''' The core technology that makes Wikipedia and its sister projects possible, the wiki, was invented in 1995. Things have changed quite a bit since then. Wikimedia Foundation projects run on an open source wiki software called MediaWiki, which we develop and improve. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute knowledge, and to give volunteers and readers great tools for assessing and improving article quality. In some areas, we lead and innovate. At minimum, we must keep up with key trends in the ever-changing web we're part of. Because our software is open source, everyone can use and improve it.<br />
<br />
''Photograph: [[w:Affinity diagram|Affinity diagram]] created based on Wikipedia usability research.''<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Great Feeling.ogv|300px]] <br />
|| <br />
'''Developing recruiting resources for new volunteers.''' Wikimedia is made of people. To grow our global community, we need to excite people about the prospect of being part of it – and help them with their first steps. To this end, we develop and maintain a library of outreach resources, such as videos and screencasts, but also printed "how-tos" and other more targeted resources (for teachers, librarians, students, and others). See the [[outreach:Bookshelf|bookshelf of outreach resources]].<br />
<br />
''Video: Wikimedia volunteers speak about their motivations, shot at the Wikimania 2010 conference. Having trouble playing the video? [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1JN6m0FTI View it on YouTube.]''<br />
|-<br />
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'''Staging outreach and community events world-wide.''' Once a year, hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers come together at [//wikimania.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania], in a different location around the world each year. (You should come! In Summer 2013 [//wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania will be in Hong Kong].) And, Wikimedia's chapter organizations have staged dozens of additional events, competitions and conferences around the world. Some are targeted at recruiting new volunteers; some give the community space to think about its work, and to do it. Recognizing the value of people coming together because they are passionate about Wikimedia's mission has been key to our success.<br />
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''Photograph: Participants of the "Free Your Knowledge" student competition in Indonesia listening to an introductory presentation (2010).''<br />
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| [[File:IndianaPPIclass.jpg|300px]] || '''Working with the educational sector.''' In the age of the open web, there's the potential for student projects to be more than just exercises. Pioneering professors have long assigned Wikipedia writing as coursework to their students. Everybody wins: students get an audience for their work, teachers successfully motivate their students, and readers get better articles. Wikimedia chapters have also reached out to schools to develop media literacy and to promote responsible use of Wikipedia in the classroom.<br />
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'''Providing access to Wikipedia everywhere.''' The next billion people to discover the web will do it using mobile phones, some without ever having touched a laptop. We need to make sure that our sites and services work both on modern smartphones and (to the extent it's possible) on lower-end devices. Our current mobile version is a start and we'll continue to improve it (including moving beyond the read-only experience). And for people with no or intermittent Internet access, we're supporting copies of Wikipedia that can be used completely offline, including projects like [http://thewikireader.com/ the WikiReader], offline readers for desktops and smartphones, and printed versions of Wikimedia content.<br />
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'''Informing our decision-making with facts and data.''' Analytics, research, experiments and forecasts are essential to make good decisions in a complex environment like Wikimedia. The [http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Foundation Report Card] and the [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ Statistics Portal] provide a wealth of up-to-date analysis which helps us understand the impact of our work. [[m:Research/Projects|Research projects]] provide us with in-depth analysis and experiments, supported by the volunteer-driven [[m:Research Committee|Research Committee]]. We're data nerds – what else would you expect from the kinds of people who love working on an online encyclopedia?<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a start-up company that will fade away in a few years. We're in this for the long haul. Everything we do is aimed at providing you, and the rest of the world, with free and immediate access to all the world's knowledge. Join us!<br />
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=== Which projects do you support? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of [//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. <br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is [[w:Wikipedia:WikiLeaks is not part of Wikipedia|not affiliated]] with WikiLeaks.<br />
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'''More information may be found on the page about [[our projects]].'''<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation run? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has a [[staff]] of {{STAFF-COUNT}}, led by the Executive Director, [[User:Sue_Gardner|Sue Gardner]]. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ''ad hoc'' basis.<br />
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The [[Board of Trustees]] articulates the [[Mission_statement|mission]] and [[vision]] of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See [[Meetings]] for published Board minutes and [[Resolutions]] for published Board resolutions. The Board is comprised of ten members, with three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]]; one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for [[Board of Trustees#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]); and four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats. The Board is supported by an [[Advisory Board]].<br />
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We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees work. All Board members and remaining staff work remotely.<br />
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We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published [[policies|key policies]] and [[finance report|financial information]].<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=donations}} from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.<br />
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'''We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.'''<br />
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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. Click [[Ways to Give/en|here]] for details on how to make a donation via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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=== Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue? ===<br />
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.<br />
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The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.<br />
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We are not against the world of online advertising, nor are we against other organizations that host ads. We just know ads are not an appropriate thing to find in a project devoted to education and knowledge - and especially one that strives for balance and neutrality.<br />
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=== How much money are you hoping to raise? ===<br />
The 2012-13 plan posits revenue of $46.1 million, a 32% increase over projected revenue of $34.8 million for 2011-12.<br />
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More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]]. Here is our [[Media:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf|2012-13 Plan]] (PDF), and here is the [[2012-2013 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Questions and Answers]] page related to it.<br />
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=== Where can I learn more about your recent activities? ===<br />
For the fiscal year 2011-12, please '''download the 2011-2012 Annual Report:''' '''[[Media:WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
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If you want to keep up with Wikimedia events more regularly, we recommend the following sources:<br />
* the [//blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation blog]<br />
* [//en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Planet Wikimedia], which includes Wikimedia community blogs<br />
* the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaAnnounce-l Wikimedia Announcements mailing list], which includes announcements from chapters and community members<br />
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=== How can I donate via Debit or Credit card? ===<br />
:To donate using any major credit or debit card ''(VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express)'', PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer; please visit {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=our fundraising page}}. Our donation options support many (although not all) currencies.<br />
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===What other options exist to allow me to donate?===<br />
Alternative ways to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation include:<br />
:*<html><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?form-countryspecific=Form-countryspecific-monthly&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_source=Waystogive&utm_campaign=C11_Waystogive"> setting up an automatic monthly gift </a></html>...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Via_regular_mail|sending check via regular mail]]...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Stock_donation|making a stock donation]]...<br />
:*[[Donate/Match_Your_Gift/en|using your employer's matching gift program]]<br />
:*[http://ematch.hepdata.com:8080/ematch/search/wikimedia check to see if your employer will match your gift]<br />
:*[[Legacy_Gift|make a Legacy Gift to ensure Wikipedia is around for generations to come]]<br />
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=== Why does the Wikimedia Foundation not currently accept Bitcoin? ===<br />
[[w:Bitcoin|Bitcoin]] is a form of [[w:Crypto-currency|crypto-currency]]; in their own words, "an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world."(<small>[http://bitcoin.org/ Bitcoin P2P Digital Currency]. Retrieved 2 November 2011.</small>) The Wikimedia Foundation's position on the matter is as follows:<br />
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<blockquote>The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money. This has been interpreted to mean that we do not accept "artificial" currencies - that is, those not backed by the full faith and credit of an issuing government. We do, however, strive to provide as many methods of donating as possible and continue to monitor Bitcoin with interest and may revisit this position should circumstances change.</blockquote><br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation does try to make donating as easy as possible, however. For a list of ways to give, see [[Ways to Give]].<br />
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=== Are my donations tax-deductible? ===<br />
Please refer to the [[Tax_Deductibility/en| information on tax-deductibility]] for the details of tax-deductions and tax receipts.<br />
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=== Why is there a minimum donation? ===<br />
We receive small donations from people who don't have much money, and we are really, really grateful to those donors. <br />
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Unfortunately it is not uncommon for people to use donation mechanisms such as ours to test stolen credit cards to see if they work. Those people typically use a very small amount for their testing: a $1 minimum donation amount seems to deter them.<br />
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=== What is your donor privacy policy? ===<br />
We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our [[Donor policy|Donor Privacy Policy]] for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.<br />
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===What is your refund policy?===<br />
If for any reason you wish to have your donation refunded, please contact us via email at donate{{@}}wikimedia.org. We will need the following information in order to process your refund:<br />
*Date of donation (All refund requests must be made within 90 days of donation)<br />
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Please note that some payment methods may not support refunds, or require refunds to be made through the payment method (card) utilised, so additional information may be required to process your refund. All refunds will be processed as quickly as possible, but processing times may vary depending on the payment method.<br />
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=== What can I do to help you spread the word? ===<br />
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=== How can I contact the Foundation? ===<br />
If you still have questions or concerns please feel free to contact us. <br />
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==Затруднения, возникающие при пожертвовании средств==<br />
Если вы столкнулись с проблемами на нашей странице пожертвований на русском языке, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с данной информацией, а также [[FAQ/ru|часто задаваемыми вопросами.]]<br />
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Сайт по приему пожертвований Фонда Викимедиа является в высокой степени безопасным и работает на базе технологий '''Verisign Trusted'''. После нажатия на баннер или перехода по ссылке для внесения пожертвований вы попадаете на страницу, которая находится на защищенном сайте '''(https)'''. Вся информация при этом шифруется и обрабатывается в соответствии с самыми высокими стандартами защиты данных. Для более подробной информации о наших сертификатах и параметрах безопасности, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с информацией о нас, которая предоставлена со стороны [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]<br />
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'''В настоящий момент мы поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
[https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Кредитные/дебетовые], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU карты, Яндекс], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Webmoney], а также [[Ways_to_Give/ru#Moneybookers|Moneybookers]]. <br />
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Также у нас имеются два банковских счета, на которые мы принимаем международные переводы. Для более подробной информации о банковских переводах, пожалуйста, отправьте сообщение на donate@wikimedia.org.<br />
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'''К сожалению, мы еще не поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
Qiwi<br/ ><br />
Мобильные платежи (SMS)<br/ ><br />
WalletOne<br/ ><br />
ChronoPay<br/ ><br />
Евросеть<br/ ><br />
PerfectMoney<br/ ><br />
Rapida<br/ ><br />
Robokassa<br />
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<div class="expand">Почему мое пожертвование через кредитную/дебетовую карту не проходит?</div><br />
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Если ваш платеж не прошел или вы не смогли ввести данные вашей карты на странице приема пожертвований, пожалуйста, проверьте вашу дебетовую/кредитную карту на предмет перечисленных случаев:<br />
*Ваша кредитная/дебетовая карта должна поддерживать международное использование. Карты, которые предназначены для использования только внутри страны (внутренние карты), могут не приниматься в настоящее время. Пожалуйста, обратитесь в ваш банк для открытия международного доступа.<br />
* Кредитные карты, выпущенные в США, Объединенном Королевстве, а также Канаде, будут приниматься только в этих странах. <br />
* В настоящее время принимаются не все виртуальные карты (virtual cards). Данные карты широко используются при онлайн покупках для защиты конфиденциальной информации, связанной с вашей реальной картой. Тем не менее, будьте уверены в том, что обработка пожертвований у нас обеспечивается профессиональными процессинговыми центрами, которые соответствуют всем требованиям, а ваша информация остается в высокой степени защищенной. Таким образом, если ваша виртуальная карта не принимается, пожалуйста, используйте взамен вашу обычную крединую/дебетовую карту.<br />
* Если вы используете дебетовую карту, пожалуйста примите во внимание, что код безопасности (CVV) требуется не всегда. Если у вашей дебетовой карты нет этого кода, то просто пропустите данное поле.<br />
*Ваш банк мог пометить транзакцию как подозрительную. Это особенно вероятно, если вы делаете пожертвование в Фонд Викимедиа в первый раз. Пожалуйста, обратитесь в ваш банк и попросите не блокировать будущие транзакции для Викимедиа, чтобы ваши будущие пожертвования были успешными.<br />
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Нет. Будьте уверены в том, что мы обрабатываем вашу информацию в защищенном виде, и ваша информация не была поставлена под угрозу Фондом Викимедиа.<br />
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<div class="expand">Почему я получаю сообщение о предупреждении/ошибке, связанное с сертификатом, при совершении пожертвования?</div><br />
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Пожалуйста, не переживайте, если вы видите подобное сообщение при совершении пожертвования. Вероятно, это происходит потому, что версия вашего браузера устарела. Пожалуйста, обновите ваш браузер на новую версию или используйте другой браузер.<br />
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Пожалуйста, отправьте сообщение нашей команде сбора пожертвований, указав подробную информацию, насколько это возможно, на адрес problemsdonating@wikimedia.org:<br />
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*дату попытки пожертвования<br />
*способ пожертвования<br />
*адрес электронной почты, который использовался при пожертвовании.<br />
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[[Category:Problems donating]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Problems_donating/ru&diff=91631Problems donating/ru2013-04-23T18:08:58Z<p>Jvandavier: /* Затруднения, возникающие при пожертвовании средств */</p>
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==Затруднения, возникающие при пожертвовании средств==<br />
Если вы столкнулись с проблемами на нашей странице пожертвований на русском языке, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с данной информацией, а также [[FAQ/ru|часто задаваемыми вопросами.]]<br />
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<div class="expand">Является ли данный сайт безопасным?</div><br />
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Сайт по приему пожертвований Фонда Викимедиа является в высокой степени безопасным и работает на базе технологий '''Verisign Trusted'''. После нажатия на баннер или перехода по ссылке для внесения пожертвований вы попадаете на страницу, которая находится на защищенном сайте '''(https)'''. Вся информация при этом шифруется и обрабатывается в соответствии с самыми высокими стандартами защиты данных. Для более подробной информации о наших сертификатах и параметрах безопасности, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с информацией о нас, которая предоставлена со стороны [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]<br />
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'''В настоящий момент мы поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
[https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Кредитные/дебетовые], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU карты, Яндекс], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Webmoney], а также [[Ways_to_Give/ru#Moneybookers|Moneybookers]]. <br />
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Также у нас имеются два банковских счета, на которые мы принимаем международные переводы. Для более подробной информации о банковских переводах, пожалуйста, отправьте сообщение на donate@wikimedia.org.<br />
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'''К сожалению, мы еще не поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
Qiwi<br/ ><br />
Мобильные платежи (SMS)<br/ ><br />
WalletOne<br/ ><br />
ChronoPay<br/ ><br />
Евросеть<br/ ><br />
PerfectMoney<br/ ><br />
Rapida<br/ ><br />
Robokassa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">Почему мое пожертвование через кредитную/дебетовую карту не проходит?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Если ваш платеж не прошел или вы не смогли ввести данные вашей карты на странице приема пожертвований, пожалуйста, проверьте вашу дебетовую/кредитную карту на предмет перечисленных случаев:<br />
*Ваша кредитная/дебетовая карта должна поддерживать международное использование. Карты, которые предназначены для использования только внутри страны (внутренние карты), могут не приниматься в настоящее время. Пожалуйста, обратитесь в ваш банк для открытия международного доступа.<br />
* Кредитные карты, выпущенные в США, Объединенном Королевстве, а также Канаде, будут приниматься только в этих странах. <br />
* В настоящее время принимаются не все виртуальные карты (virtual cards). Данные карты широко используются при онлайн покупках для защиты конфиденциальной информации, связанной с вашей реальной картой. Тем не менее, будьте уверены в том, что обработка пожертвований у нас обеспечивается профессиональными процессинговыми центрами, которые соответствуют всем требованиям, а ваша информация остается в высокой степени защищенной. Таким образом, если ваша виртуальная карта не принимается, пожалуйста, используйте взамен вашу обычную крединую/дебетовую карту.<br />
* Если вы используете дебетовую карту, пожалуйста примите во внимание, что код безопасности (CVV) требуется не всегда. Если у вашей дебетовой карты нет этого кода, то просто пропустите данное поле.<br />
*Ваш банк мог пометить транзакцию как подозрительную. Это особенно вероятно, если вы делаете пожертвование в Фонд Викимедиа в первый раз. Пожалуйста, обратитесь в ваш банк и попросите не блокировать будущие транзакции для Викимедиа, чтобы ваши будущие пожертвования были успешными.<br />
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Пожалуйста, не волнуйтесь, если при попытке сделать пожертвование получаете предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата. Вероятнее всего, это происходит из-за устаревшей версии вашего браузера. Пожалуйста, обновите свой браузер до новой версии или используйте другой браузер. Если проблема не устранена, напишите нам, пожалуйста, об этом по адресу donate@wikimedia.org<br />
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==Затруднения, возникающие при пожертвовании средств==<br />
Если вы столкнулись с проблемами на нашей странице пожертвований на русском языке, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с данной информацией, а также [[FAQ/ru|часто задаваемыми вопросами.]]<br />
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Сайт по приему пожертвований Фонда Викимедиа является в высокой степени безопасным и работает на базе технологий '''Verisign Trusted'''. После нажатия на баннер или перехода по ссылке для внесения пожертвований вы попадаете на страницу, которая находится на защищенном сайте '''(https)'''. Вся информация при этом шифруется и обрабатывается в соответствии с самыми высокими стандартами защиты данных. Для более подробной информации о наших сертификатах и параметрах безопасности, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с информацией о нас, которая предоставлена со стороны [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]<br />
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'''В настоящий момент мы поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
[https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Кредитные/дебетовые], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU карты, Яндекс], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Webmoney], а также [[Ways_to_Give/ru#Moneybookers|Moneybookers]]. <br />
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Также у нас имеются два банковских счета, на которые мы принимаем международные переводы. Для более подробной информации о банковских переводах, пожалуйста, отправьте сообщение на donate@wikimedia.org.<br />
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'''К сожалению, мы еще не поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
Qiwi<br/ ><br />
Мобильные платежи (SMS)<br/ ><br />
WalletOne<br/ ><br />
ChronoPay<br/ ><br />
Евросеть<br/ ><br />
PerfectMoney<br/ ><br />
Rapida<br/ ><br />
Robokassa<br />
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Если ваш платёж не принят или вы не смогли ввести сведения о своей карте на нашей странице пожертвований, — проверьте, пожалуйста, свою кредитную/дебетовую карту следующим образом:<br />
*Ваша кредитная/дебетовая карта должна быть пригодной для международного применения. В настоящее время не не принимаются пожертвования с карт, пригодных только в вашей стране (так называемые домашние карты). Пожалуйста, позвоните в свой банк и попросите их включить возможность международных транзакций. <br />
* Кредитные карты США, Соединённого Королевства и Канады принимаются только в этих соответствующих государствах. <br />
* В настоящее время принимаются не все виртуальные карты. Последние часто применяют при покупках онлайн для того, чтобы защитить конфиденциальные сведения на своей физической карте. Тем не менее, вы можете быть уверены, что наша обработка пожертвований поддерживается профессиональными процессинговыми операторами, полностью совместимыми со всеми видами карт, и ваши сведения полностью защищены. Поэтому, если ваша виртуальная карта не принята, то, пожалуйста, воспользуйтесь вместо неё своей обычной кредитной/дебетовой картой.<br />
* Если вы ипользуете дебетовую карту, то, пожалуйста, обратите внимание на то, что защитный код (CVV) указывать необязательно. Если ваша дебетовая карта не содержит CVV, то просто пропустите это поле.<br />
*Ваш банк может выделять подобные транзакции для дополнительной проверки. Такое особенно вероятно, если вы впервые делаете пожертвования для Викимедиа. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с банком и попросить их разблокировать будущие транзакции в адрес Викимедиа, чтобы ваши будущие пожертвования обрабатывались в шататном режиме.<br />
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<div class="expand">Почему при попытке сделать пожертвование я получяю предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата?</div><br />
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Пожалуйста, не волнуйтесь, если при попытке сделать пожертвование получаете предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата. Вероятнее всего, это происходит из-за устаревшей версии вашего браузера. Пожалуйста, обновите свой браузер до новой версии или используйте другой браузер. Если проблема не устранена, напишите нам, пожалуйста, об этом по адресу donate@wikimedia.org<br />
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==Затруднения, возникающие при пожертвовании средств==<br />
Если вы столкнулись с проблемами на нашей странице пожертвований на русском языке, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с данной информацией, а также [[FAQ/ru|часто задаваемыми вопросами.]]<br />
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Сайт по приему пожертвований Фонда Викимедиа является в высокой степени безопасным и работает на базе технологий '''Verisign Trusted'''. После нажатия на баннер или перехода по ссылке для внесения пожертвований вы попадаете на страницу, которая находится на защищенном сайте '''(https)'''. Вся информация при этом шифруется и обрабатывается в соответствии с самыми высокими стандартами защиты данных. Для более подробной информации о наших сертификатах и параметрах безопасности, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с информацией о нас, которая предоставлена со стороны [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]<br />
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'''В настоящий момент мы поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
[https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Кредитные/дебетовые], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU карты, Яндекс], [https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=ru&country=RU Webmoney], а также [[Ways_to_Give/ru#Moneybookers|Moneybookers]]. Также у нас имеются два банковских счета, на которые мы принимаем международные переводы. Для более подробной информации о банковских переводах, пожалуйста, отправьте сообщение на donate@wikimedia.org.<br />
<br />
'''К сожалению, мы еще не поддерживаем:'''<br/ ><br />
Qiwi<br/ ><br />
Мобильные платежи (SMS)<br/ ><br />
WalletOne<br/ ><br />
ChronoPay<br/ ><br />
Евросеть<br/ ><br />
PerfectMoney<br/ ><br />
Rapida<br/ ><br />
Robokassa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div><br />
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<div class="expand">Почему не было принято моё пожертвование с кредитной/дебетовой карты?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Если ваш платёж не принят или вы не смогли ввести сведения о своей карте на нашей странице пожертвований, — проверьте, пожалуйста, свою кредитную/дебетовую карту следующим образом:<br />
*Ваша кредитная/дебетовая карта должна быть пригодной для международного применения. В настоящее время не не принимаются пожертвования с карт, пригодных только в вашей стране (так называемые домашние карты). Пожалуйста, позвоните в свой банк и попросите их включить возможность международных транзакций. <br />
* Кредитные карты США, Соединённого Королевства и Канады принимаются только в этих соответствующих государствах. <br />
* В настоящее время принимаются не все виртуальные карты. Последние часто применяют при покупках онлайн для того, чтобы защитить конфиденциальные сведения на своей физической карте. Тем не менее, вы можете быть уверены, что наша обработка пожертвований поддерживается профессиональными процессинговыми операторами, полностью совместимыми со всеми видами карт, и ваши сведения полностью защищены. Поэтому, если ваша виртуальная карта не принята, то, пожалуйста, воспользуйтесь вместо неё своей обычной кредитной/дебетовой картой.<br />
* Если вы ипользуете дебетовую карту, то, пожалуйста, обратите внимание на то, что защитный код (CVV) указывать необязательно. Если ваша дебетовая карта не содержит CVV, то просто пропустите это поле.<br />
*Ваш банк может выделять подобные транзакции для дополнительной проверки. Такое особенно вероятно, если вы впервые делаете пожертвования для Викимедиа. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с банком и попросить их разблокировать будущие транзакции в адрес Викимедиа, чтобы ваши будущие пожертвования обрабатывались в шататном режиме.<br />
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<div class="expand">Почему при попытке сделать пожертвование я получяю предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата?</div><br />
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Пожалуйста, не волнуйтесь, если при попытке сделать пожертвование получаете предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата. Вероятнее всего, это происходит из-за устаревшей версии вашего браузера. Пожалуйста, обновите свой браузер до новой версии или используйте другой браузер. Если проблема не устранена, напишите нам, пожалуйста, об этом по адресу donate@wikimedia.org<br />
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==Затруднения, возникающие при пожертвовании средств==<br />
Если вы столкнулись с проблемами на нашей странице пожертвований на русском языке, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с данной информацией, а также [[FAQ/ru|часто задаваемыми вопросами.]]<br />
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<div class="expand">Является ли данный сайт безопасным?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Сайт по приему пожертвований Фонда Викимедиа является в высокой степени безопасным и работает на базе технологий Verisign Trusted. После нажатия на баннер или перехода по ссылке для внесения пожертвований вы попадаете на страницу, которая находится на защищенном сайте (https). Вся информация при этом шифруется и обрабатывается в соответствии с самыми высокими стандартами защиты данных. Для более подробной информации о наших сертификатах и параметрах безопасности, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с информацией о нас, которая предоставлена со стороны [https://trustsealinfo.verisign.com/splash?form_file=fdf/splash.fdf&dn=payments.wikimedia.org&lang=en Verisign Trusted]<br />
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Мы сожалеем, что сейчас не в состоянии предложить вам наиболее удобный для вас способ оплаты; в будущих кампаниях по сбору средств мы надеемся организовать более удобные варианты приёма пожертвований в большем числе валют. Тем не менее, нам очень хотелось бы знать, какие методы чаще всего используются вами и в вашей стране — пожалуйста, отправьте нам электронное письмо с вашим мнением, упомянув свою страну и название способа оплаты.<br />
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Мы постараемся добавить эти опции в ближайшем будущем. А пока, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь со списком доступных уже сейчас способов сбора пожертвований: '''[[Ways_to_Give/ru|http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/ru]]<br />
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<div class="expand">Почему не было принято моё пожертвование с кредитной/дебетовой карты?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Если ваш платёж не принят или вы не смогли ввести сведения о своей карте на нашей странице пожертвований, — проверьте, пожалуйста, свою кредитную/дебетовую карту следующим образом:<br />
*Ваша кредитная/дебетовая карта должна быть пригодной для международного применения. В настоящее время не не принимаются пожертвования с карт, пригодных только в вашей стране (так называемые домашние карты). Пожалуйста, позвоните в свой банк и попросите их включить возможность международных транзакций. <br />
* Кредитные карты США, Соединённого Королевства и Канады принимаются только в этих соответствующих государствах. <br />
* В настоящее время принимаются не все виртуальные карты. Последние часто применяют при покупках онлайн для того, чтобы защитить конфиденциальные сведения на своей физической карте. Тем не менее, вы можете быть уверены, что наша обработка пожертвований поддерживается профессиональными процессинговыми операторами, полностью совместимыми со всеми видами карт, и ваши сведения полностью защищены. Поэтому, если ваша виртуальная карта не принята, то, пожалуйста, воспользуйтесь вместо неё своей обычной кредитной/дебетовой картой.<br />
* Если вы ипользуете дебетовую карту, то, пожалуйста, обратите внимание на то, что защитный код (CVV) указывать необязательно. Если ваша дебетовая карта не содержит CVV, то просто пропустите это поле.<br />
*Ваш банк может выделять подобные транзакции для дополнительной проверки. Такое особенно вероятно, если вы впервые делаете пожертвования для Викимедиа. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с банком и попросить их разблокировать будущие транзакции в адрес Викимедиа, чтобы ваши будущие пожертвования обрабатывались в шататном режиме.<br />
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<div class="expand">Почему при попытке сделать пожертвование я получяю предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата?</div><br />
<div class="collapse"><br />
Пожалуйста, не волнуйтесь, если при попытке сделать пожертвование получаете предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата. Вероятнее всего, это происходит из-за устаревшей версии вашего браузера. Пожалуйста, обновите свой браузер до новой версии или используйте другой браузер. Если проблема не устранена, напишите нам, пожалуйста, об этом по адресу donate@wikimedia.org<br />
</div><br />
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Сайт пожертвований Фонда Викимедиа весьма надёжен и поддерживается Verisign Trusted. После нажатия на баннер или на ссылку для пожертвований, вы попадёте на страницу, которая находится на надёжно защищённом сайте (https); вся информация шифруется и обрабатывается в соответствии с наиболее высокими стандартами защиты данных.<br />
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Мы сожалеем, что сейчас не в состоянии предложить вам наиболее удобный для вас способ оплаты; в будущих кампаниях по сбору средств мы надеемся организовать более удобные варианты приёма пожертвований в большем числе валют. Тем не менее, нам очень хотелось бы знать, какие методы чаще всего используются вами и в вашей стране — пожалуйста, отправьте нам электронное письмо с вашим мнением, упомянув свою страну и название способа оплаты.<br />
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Мы постараемся добавить эти опции в ближайшем будущем. А пока, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь со списком доступных уже сейчас способов сбора пожертвований: '''[[Ways_to_Give/ru|http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/ru]]<br />
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*Ваша кредитная/дебетовая карта должна быть пригодной для международного применения. В настоящее время не не принимаются пожертвования с карт, пригодных только в вашей стране (так называемые домашние карты). Пожалуйста, позвоните в свой банк и попросите их включить возможность международных транзакций. <br />
* Кредитные карты США, Соединённого Королевства и Канады принимаются только в этих соответствующих государствах. <br />
* В настоящее время принимаются не все виртуальные карты. Последние часто применяют при покупках онлайн для того, чтобы защитить конфиденциальные сведения на своей физической карте. Тем не менее, вы можете быть уверены, что наша обработка пожертвований поддерживается профессиональными процессинговыми операторами, полностью совместимыми со всеми видами карт, и ваши сведения полностью защищены. Поэтому, если ваша виртуальная карта не принята, то, пожалуйста, воспользуйтесь вместо неё своей обычной кредитной/дебетовой картой.<br />
* Если вы ипользуете дебетовую карту, то, пожалуйста, обратите внимание на то, что защитный код (CVV) указывать необязательно. Если ваша дебетовая карта не содержит CVV, то просто пропустите это поле.<br />
*Ваш банк может выделять подобные транзакции для дополнительной проверки. Такое особенно вероятно, если вы впервые делаете пожертвования для Викимедиа. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с банком и попросить их разблокировать будущие транзакции в адрес Викимедиа, чтобы ваши будущие пожертвования обрабатывались в шататном режиме.<br />
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Пожалуйста, не волнуйтесь, если при попытке сделать пожертвование получаете предупреждение или сообщение об ошибке сертификата. Вероятнее всего, это происходит из-за устаревшей версии вашего браузера. Пожалуйста, обновите свой браузер до новой версии или используйте другой браузер. Если проблема не устранена, напишите нам, пожалуйста, об этом по адресу donate@wikimedia.org<br />
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This page lists '''frequently asked questions''' about the Wikimedia Foundation. Other questions are answered [[Answers|here]]. If you do not find your question answered here or there, please feel free to [[contact us]].<br />
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=== In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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[//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than {{ALL-WP-COUNT|million=true}} million volunteer-authored articles in over {{WP-EDITIONS-COUNT}} languages, and is visited by more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world. <br />
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It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past ten years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone.<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and [[our projects|other free knowledge projects]]. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our [[Media:501%28c%293_Letter.png|letter of tax-exemption]] and our [[financial reports|financial reports and annual filings]]. <br />
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Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a [[local chapters|network of chapters]] in many different countries to achieve this goal.<br />
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=== If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go? ===<br />
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Money you donate pays for staff salaries and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects together reach {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people every month, we employ only {{STAFF-COUNT}} people; see our [[staff]] overview. <br />
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Our staff is divided into three program departments: technology (website operations, software development); legal, communications, and community advocacy (public outreach, community programs, legal defense), and learning and grantmaking (supporting chapter programs and growing Wikimedia worldwide). The remainder of our staff work in management, finance, and administration. Your support also pays for servers, bandwidth, and Internet hosting that allow us to keep Wikimedia's projects running and growing. If you donate to a [[local chapter]] in your geography, your donation supports both the Wikimedia Foundation, and program activities in your country.<br />
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Above all, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the vast network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects – more than 80,000 people around the world.<br />
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=== Where can I find more financial information? ===<br />
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The '''Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 annual report''' covers the fiscal year of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Now in its fifth edition, the Foundation's annual report expresses 'how the world tells its story' through the incredible work of our multilingual projects, and describes the priorities, challenges, and achievements within our movement. <br />
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The '''2012-13 Annual Plan''' is our budget for the current fiscal year. It contains a summary of our strategic goals, financial details on spending and revenue, and detailed explanations and risk analysis.<br />
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=== What are your plans? Where is this going? ===<br />
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As Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." <br />
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We're serious about this vision. Every month, more than {{COMSCORE-UNIQUES}} million people around the world already use Wikipedia. It's available online, on your mobile device, on DVD, in books, and many other forms. We aspire to reach everyone, and to continually provide more and better information.<br />
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Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the [[Board_of_Trustees|Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees]] set "big, hairy, audacious goals" for Wikimedia. These [[Media:Wikimedia Five-Year Targets.pdf|five-year targets]] (PDF) include increasing Wikimedia's global reach to '''1 billion people''' and the number of articles in Wikipedia to '''50 million'''. We're also setting out to dramatically increase and diversify '''participation''', and to measure and improve '''quality''' of all Wikimedia content.<br />
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Wikimedia is not a traditional organization. It's a global movement. The core of the work is done by thousands of volunteers worldwide. This volunteer community is supported by a network of organizations, with the Wikimedia Foundation at its center, working in partnership with geographically focused [[local chapters]] in {{CHAPTER-COUNT}} countries. It's our volunteer community that enables us to accomplish so much with so little.<br />
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These are some of the activities we're focused on right now:<br />
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'''Giving Wikimedia's volunteers the best possible tools to do their work.''' The core technology that makes Wikipedia and its sister projects possible, the wiki, was invented in 1995. Things have changed quite a bit since then. Wikimedia Foundation projects run on an open source wiki software called MediaWiki, which we develop and improve. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute knowledge, and to give volunteers and readers great tools for assessing and improving article quality. In some areas, we lead and innovate. At minimum, we must keep up with key trends in the ever-changing web we're part of. Because our software is open source, everyone can use and improve it.<br />
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'''Developing recruiting resources for new volunteers.''' Wikimedia is made of people. To grow our global community, we need to excite people about the prospect of being part of it – and help them with their first steps. To this end, we develop and maintain a library of outreach resources, such as videos and screencasts, but also printed "how-tos" and other more targeted resources (for teachers, librarians, students, and others). See the [[outreach:Bookshelf|bookshelf of outreach resources]].<br />
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'''Staging outreach and community events world-wide.''' Once a year, hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers come together at [//wikimania.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania], in a different location around the world each year. (You should come! In Summer 2013 [//wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania will be in Hong Kong].) And, Wikimedia's chapter organizations have staged dozens of additional events, competitions and conferences around the world. Some are targeted at recruiting new volunteers; some give the community space to think about its work, and to do it. Recognizing the value of people coming together because they are passionate about Wikimedia's mission has been key to our success.<br />
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'''Providing access to Wikipedia everywhere.''' The next billion people to discover the web will do it using mobile phones, some without ever having touched a laptop. We need to make sure that our sites and services work both on modern smartphones and (to the extent it's possible) on lower-end devices. Our current mobile version is a start and we'll continue to improve it (including moving beyond the read-only experience). And for people with no or intermittent Internet access, we're supporting copies of Wikipedia that can be used completely offline, including projects like [http://thewikireader.com/ the WikiReader], offline readers for desktops and smartphones, and printed versions of Wikimedia content.<br />
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'''Informing our decision-making with facts and data.''' Analytics, research, experiments and forecasts are essential to make good decisions in a complex environment like Wikimedia. The [http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Foundation Report Card] and the [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ Statistics Portal] provide a wealth of up-to-date analysis which helps us understand the impact of our work. The [[strategy:Main Page|Strategy Wiki]] is a public planning space where longer term trends are analyzed. [[m:Research/Projects|Research projects]] provide us with in-depth analysis and experiments, supported by the volunteer-driven [[m:Research Committee|Research Committee]]. We're data nerds – what else would you expect from the kinds of people who love working on an online encyclopedia?<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a start-up company that will fade away in a few years. We're in this for the long haul. Everything we do is aimed at providing you, and the rest of the world, with free and immediate access to all the world's knowledge. Join us!<br />
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=== Which projects do you support? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of [//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. <br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation is [[w:Wikipedia:WikiLeaks is not part of Wikipedia|not affiliated]] with WikiLeaks.<br />
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'''More information may be found on the page about [[our projects]].'''<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation run? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has a [[staff]] of {{STAFF-COUNT}}, led by the Executive Director, [[User:Sue_Gardner|Sue Gardner]]. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ''ad hoc'' basis.<br />
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The [[Board of Trustees]] articulates the [[Mission_statement|mission]] and [[vision]] of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See [[Meetings]] for published Board minutes and [[Resolutions]] for published Board resolutions. The Board is comprised of ten members, with three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]]; one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for [[Board of Trustees#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]); and four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats. The Board is supported by an [[Advisory Board]].<br />
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We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees work. All Board members and remaining staff work remotely.<br />
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We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published [[policies|key policies]] and [[finance report|financial information]].<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=donations}} from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see [[benefactors]]).<br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.<br />
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'''We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.'''<br />
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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. Click [[Ways to Give/en|here]] for details on how to make a donation via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate{{@}}wikimedia.org.<br />
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=== Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue? ===<br />
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.<br />
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The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.<br />
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We are not against the world of online advertising, nor are we against other organizations that host ads. We just know ads are not an appropriate thing to find in a project devoted to education and knowledge - and especially one that strives for balance and neutrality.<br />
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=== How much money are you hoping to raise? ===<br />
The 2012-13 plan posits revenue of $46.1 million, a 32% increase over projected revenue of $34.8 million for 2011-12.<br />
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More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]]. Here is our [[Media:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf|2012-13 Plan]] (PDF), and here is the [[2012-2013 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Questions and Answers]] page related to it.<br />
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=== Where can I learn more about your recent activities? ===<br />
For the fiscal year 2011-12, please '''download the 2011-2012 Annual Report:''' '''[[Media:WMF-AR_2011%E2%80%9312_EN_SHIP2_17dec12_300dpi_hi-res.pdf|PDF version (3.9 MB)]]'''<br />
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If you want to keep up with Wikimedia events more regularly, we recommend the following sources:<br />
* the [//blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation blog]<br />
* [http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Planet Wikimedia], which includes Wikimedia community blogs<br />
* the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaAnnounce-l Wikimedia Announcements mailing list], which includes announcements from chapters and community members<br />
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=== How can I donate via Debit or Credit card? ===<br />
:To donate using any major credit or debit card ''(VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express)'', PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer; please visit {{2012FR/Link-Donate|utm-source=B_FAQ|utm-campaign=C_FAQ|text=our fundraising page}}. Our donation options support many (although not all) currencies.<br />
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===What other options exist to allow me to donate?===<br />
Alternative ways to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation include:<br />
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:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Via_regular_mail|sending check via regular mail]]...<br />
:*[[Ways_to_Give/en#Stock_donation|making a stock donation]]...<br />
:*[[Donate/Match_Your_Gift/en|using your employer's matching gift program]]<br />
:*[http://ematch.hepdata.com:8080/ematch/search/wikimedia check to see if your employer will match your gift]<br />
:*[[Legacy_Gift|make a Legacy Gift to ensure Wikipedia is around for generations to come]]<br />
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=== Are my donations tax-deductible? ===<br />
Please refer to the [[Tax_Deductibility/en| information on tax-deductibility]] for the details of tax-deductions and tax receipts.<br />
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=== Why is there a minimum donation? ===<br />
We receive small donations from people who don't have much money, and we are really, really grateful to those donors. <br />
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Unfortunately it is not uncommon for people to use donation mechanisms such as ours to test stolen credit cards to see if they work. Those people typically use a very small amount for their testing: a $1 minimum donation amount seems to deter them.<br />
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=== What is your donor privacy policy? ===<br />
We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our [[Donor policy|Donor Privacy Policy]] for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.<br />
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===What is your refund policy?===<br />
If for any reason you wish to have your donation refunded, please contact us via email at donate{{@}}wikimedia.org. We will need the following information in order to process your refund:<br />
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Please note that some payment methods may not support refunds, or require refunds to be made through the payment method (card) utilised, so additional information may be required to process your refund. All refunds will be processed as quickly as possible, but processing times may vary depending on the payment method.<br />
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=== What can I do to help you spread the word? ===<br />
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Spread the word any way you can! Tell your friends and family. Tell them what Wikipedia means to you. Ask them if they use it and if so, what it means to them. Use this text as the signature file on the bottom of your emails: <br />
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</div></div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mono&diff=84996User talk:Mono2012-11-09T01:03:33Z<p>Jvandavier: /* social media links */</p>
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Hey Mono,<br />
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I reverted your edits to the [[Template:2011FR/Thankyou|donation thank you page]]. We'd prefer if you contacted someone on the team before changing pages so drastically in the future :)<br />
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Thanks, jvandavier 19:19, 5 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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: Hi.<br />
: Thank you for updating your note here to not include anything about a possible privacy policy violation. I looked at the code for [[Template:Social accounts]] and it's fine.<br />
: I wouldn't call Mono's changes drastic. He just replaced the social media icons. That whole page is a bit ugly and could use a refresh (unless it's meant to fit inside of some pretty wrapper somewhere...). The view that anyone should be getting prior approval before updating pages is a bit [[w:WP:BOLD|anti-wiki]], eh? There can be a healthy [[w:WP:BRD|BRD]] cycle here without much issue, I think.<br />
: We've now entered the "D" (discussion) stage. So it'd be helpful if you could explain why you didn't like Mono's change (besides the lack of consultation). That way, the changes can be reimplemented appropriately. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 03:37, 6 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:: Hi MZ,<br />
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::The page in question is a live fundraising page that thousands of our donors see in any given hour. The edits Mono made changed the functionality of the links (from a Facebook 'share' to a Facebook 'like') and also changed the look of the page quite a bit. AFAIK, live fundraising pages are not open for normal editing. Each of these pages has a corresponding talk page which I'd invite you to use, or you can leave a note on my talk page. Most of the fundraising team also hangs out in #wikimedia-fundraising on IRC and would be happy to discuss changes with you there as well :)<br />
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::Thanks,<br />
::jvandavier 00:09, 8 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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::: Err, are we talking about the same thing? I believe the thank you page has been historically exempt from the "fundraising rule" as it's pretty difficult to mess up fundraising after someone has already donated. :-)<br />
::: A talk page (such as [[Template talk:2011FR/Thankyou]]) is a great venue that you chose not to use in this case. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 07:39, 8 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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::::We are talking about the same page :) and the fact remains that it is a live fundraising page. I am unaware of any exemption of live fundraising pages from this "fundraising rule", especially one that all of our donors are specifically brought to during the donation flow. It is the last thing they see during the donation process. We are happy to try out this edit and we're also happy to see incremental changes to pages. Changing link functionality and removing some of the content is more than an incremental change jvandavier 01:03, 9 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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::::As a neutral outside observer, if I remember correctly from my discussions with both Megan and Zack, most of the fundraising related pages have been transferred to be on donate.wikimedia.org (donatewiki) instead now, which has much more restricted access to the extent that editing is WMF staff-only. Given that the page appears to be quite important, please can you explain why hasn't it been transferred yet to donatewiki, given that the fundraiser is coming up quite soon now?! [[User:Thehelpfulone|<font color="red">'''The'''</font>]][[User talk:Thehelpfulone|<font color="black">'''helpful'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Thehelpfulone|<font color="red">'''one'''</font>]] 13:19, 8 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:::::I discussed this with the team, but it will take a few days to do; we'd prefer to devote the time this will take to other, more important fundraising projects. I think there was an assumption that these mostly-text pages (the [[FAQ/en|FAQ]], for instance) would be alright to leave on this wiki without any problems. Forms and such were moved because they can be fragile and possibly include sensitive data jvandavier 01:03, 9 November 2012 (UTC)</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mono&diff=84950User talk:Mono2012-11-08T00:09:17Z<p>Jvandavier: /* social media links */</p>
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Hey Mono,<br />
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I reverted your edits to the [[Template:2011FR/Thankyou|donation thank you page]]. We'd prefer if you contacted someone on the team before changing pages so drastically in the future :)<br />
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Thanks, jvandavier 19:19, 5 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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: Hi.<br />
: Thank you for updating your note here to not include anything about a possible privacy policy violation. I looked at the code for [[Template:Social accounts]] and it's fine.<br />
: I wouldn't call Mono's changes drastic. He just replaced the social media icons. That whole page is a bit ugly and could use a refresh (unless it's meant to fit inside of some pretty wrapper somewhere...). The view that anyone should be getting prior approval before updating pages is a bit [[w:WP:BOLD|anti-wiki]], eh? There can be a healthy [[w:WP:BRD|BRD]] cycle here without much issue, I think.<br />
: We've now entered the "D" (discussion) stage. So it'd be helpful if you could explain why you didn't like Mono's change (besides the lack of consultation). That way, the changes can be reimplemented appropriately. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 03:37, 6 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:: Hi MZ,<br />
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::The page in question is a live fundraising page that thousands of our donors see in any given hour. The edits Mono made changed the functionality of the links (from a Facebook 'share' to a Facebook 'like') and also changed the look of the page quite a bit. AFAIK, live fundraising pages are not open for normal editing. Each of these pages has a corresponding talk page which I'd invite you to use, or you can leave a note on my talk page. Most of the fundraising team also hangs out in #wikimedia-fundraising on IRC and would be happy to discuss changes with you there as well :)<br />
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::Thanks,<br />
::jvandavier 00:09, 8 November 2012 (UTC)</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mono&diff=84908User talk:Mono2012-11-05T19:52:08Z<p>Jvandavier: /* social media links */</p>
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== social media links ==<br />
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Hey Mono,<br />
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I reverted your edits to the [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:2011FR/Thankyou|donation thank you page]. We'd prefer if you contacted someone on the team before changing pages so drastically in the future :)<br />
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Thanks, jvandavier 19:19, 5 November 2012 (UTC)</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mono&diff=84906User talk:Mono2012-11-05T19:19:15Z<p>Jvandavier: /* social media links */ new section</p>
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Hey Mono,<br />
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I reverted your edits to the [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:2011FR/Thankyou|donation thank you page]. Unfortunately, 'liking' the Wikipedia Facebook page goes against the privacy policy we have in place, so we can't have the option for donors to do so at the end of a donation.<br />
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Thanks, jvandavier 19:19, 5 November 2012 (UTC)</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=FAQ/en&diff=84811FAQ/en2012-10-30T17:36:19Z<p>Jvandavier: /* How much money are you hoping to raise? */ updated with 12-13 info</p>
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=== In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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=== Which projects do you support? ===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of [//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. <br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation run? ===<br />
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=== How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded? ===<br />
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=== Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue? ===<br />
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.<br />
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The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.<br />
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=== How much money are you hoping to raise? ===<br />
The 2012-13 plan posits revenue of $46.1 million, a 32% increase over projected revenue of $34.8 million for 2011-12.<br />
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More details about our finances can be found in our [[financial reports]]. Here is our [[Media:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf|2012-13 Plan]] (PDF), and here is the [[2012-2013 Annual Plan Questions and Answers|Questions and Answers]] page related to it.<br />
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==Matching Gifts==<br />
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Matching Gifts are a great, easy way to double or even triple your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. Many companies support employee philanthropy by offering matching gift programs. By taking advantage of your corporate matching gift program, you can maximize the value of your gift at no additional cost. Please check with your HR department to see if your employer will match your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
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==How does this program work?==<br />
Although programs may vary from company to company, the process is usually very simple:<br />
# Confirm that your company has a matching gifts program and obtain the appropriate Matching Gifts Form from your employer. Matching gifts must be employee initiated. Wikimedia Foundation cannot request the match.<br />
# Complete the form and send it to the Wikimedia Foundation at our physical address:<br />
#::Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br />
#::P.O. Box 98204<br />
#::Washington, DC 20090-8204 USA <br /><br />
#:or email the form to matching{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
# The Wikimedia Foundation will verify your donation and send the form back to your company<br />
# Your company will send a matching gift contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation<br />
# Matching gifts should be directed to:<br/><br />
::Renee Bracey Sherman<br/><br />
::matching{{@}}wikimedia.org<br/><br />
::+1-415-839-6885<br/> <br />
::For your reference, our United States Tax ID is: '''20-0049703'''<br />
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Many people and their employers have already partnered in donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. We are grateful for their support and generosity. If someone has already donated a matching contribution, you can find more information about their matching gifts program here:<br />
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[https://www.easymatch.com/AdobeMG Adobe Systems, Inc].<br/><br />
[https://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/aetna.eg_login.choose_login Aetna Foundation Matching Grant Programs]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/agilent Agilent]<br/> <br />
[[:File:AIGMatchingGifts Application.pdf | AIG Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/eg_login.login?x_gm_id=3597 Albemarie Foundation]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/alliancebernsteingive Alliance Bernstein]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/AllstateForm.pdf Allstate]<br/><br />
[http://www.ally.com/about/community-relations/ Ally] <br/><br />
Amazon.com<br/><br />
[http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/corporate-information/corporate-responsibility/community/Pages/giving-program.aspx AMD Foundation]<br/><br />
America's Charities <br/><br />
[[:File:AmercianExpress.pdf | American Express Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
AmeriGives<br/><br />
[http://www.ameriprise.com/about-ameriprise-financial/company-information/ameriprise-community-relations.asp Ameriprise Financial] <br/><br />
[http://www.amgen.com/citizenship/staff_involvement.html Amgen Foundation]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/aolgive AOL]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/AonGuidelines.pdf AON]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/apple Apple]<br/><br />
Arthur Martin Colonial Brookwood Center<br/><br />
[http://www3.vpt.org/pdfs/matchinggifts/attfoundation.pdf AT&T]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BAENetworkSystems.pdf BAE Network Systems] <br/><br />
[http://www.ball.com/employee-giving/ Ball Corporation]<br/><br />
[[:File:bankofamerica.pdf | Bank of America Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BarclaysGlobalGuidelines.pdf Barclays Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.bd.com/responsibility/community/matching_gifts.asp BD Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
BHP Billiton<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/gatesfoundation/ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]<br/><br />
[http://benefits.web3.stanley.klunkmillan.net/sites/benefits.stanleyblackanddecker.com/files/documents/matching_gifts_program_form.doc Black and Decker Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BlackRock2008.pdf BlackRock]<br/><br />
[http://www.multnomah.edu/Common/pdf/Contributors/Employers/BP.pdf BP Foundation] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BristolMyers.pdf Bristol-Myers Squibb Company]<br/><br />
[http://www.ca.com/us/community-affairs/employee-volunteerism-and-matching-gifts.aspx CA Together Matching Gifts Programs]<br/><br />
Cadence<br/><br />
[http://www.capgroup.com/about_us/charitable_programs.html Capital Group Companies]<br/><br />
Cardinal Health Group Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
CarMax Foundation<br/><br />
Carnegie Corporation of New York <br/><br />
[http://www.aboutschwab.com/community/corporate_giving/employee_matching_gifts/ Charles Schwab Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/chevron?login=regular Chevron Humankind Project]<br/><br />
[http://www.cigna.com/aboutus/community-involvement CIGNA Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Citizens Financial Group/The Royal Bank of Scotland Group <br/><br />
[[:File:Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application.pdf | Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/coinstargive Coinstar Cares] <br/><br />
ConocoPhillips <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/covidien Coviden] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/CooperIndustries.pdf Cooper Industries Foundation Matching Gifts Plan]<br/><br />
D&B Foundation <br/><br />
Dell<br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/dbafmgp/CustomerData/forms/mgForm.pdf Deutsche Bank]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/dolby Dolby] <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/Dominion Dominion Foundation] <br/><br />
Duke Energy Foundation <br/><br />
[[:File:e_bay_mg_form.pdf | eBay Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.ea.com/outreach Electronic Arts]<br/><br />
[http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/community/request_ecf_grant.html Employee's Community Fund of the Boeing Company]<br/><br />
Erik Zachte <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/ETSCARES ETS Cares Campaign] <br/><br />
[http://careers.expedia.com/content/expediacares/ Expedia, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/Exxon2008Form.pdf ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Fannie Mae <br/> <br />
FIM Group <br/><br />
Ford Foundation <br/><br />
[http://www.easymatch.com/FTIMG Franklin Templeton Investments] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/freddiemac/ Freddie Mac Foundation] <br/><br />
[[:File:Gap Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application.pdf | Gap Foundation Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Gartner Group, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.ge.com/foundation/employee_programs/matching_gifts.jsp GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Giving Tree Fund<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/GSK GlaxoSmithKline] <br/><br />
Global Impact <br/><br />
[[:File:GoldmanSachsForm.pdf | Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.easymatch.com/goodrichgive Goodrich Corporation] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/google Google Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Grainger <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/harvarduniversitygive Harvard Community Gifts] <br/><br />
Hospira Employee Giving Campaign <br/><br />
Houghton Mifflin <br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7230 Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/hospira Hospira Employee Giving Program]<br/><br />
[[:File:HoughtonMifflinGuidelines&Form.pdf | Houghton Miffling Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Intercontinental Hotels Group<br/><br />
Intuit <br/><br />
Invest In Others <br/><br />
[[:File:MatchingGifts 2012 - Verisk Analytics.pdf | ISO Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/eg_login.login?x_gm_id=3507 ITW Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
JK Group Trustees for Visa International Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/JHancock John Hancock Matching Gifts Program] <br/><br />
[[:File:JPMCForm.pdf | JP Morgan Chase and Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[:File:JuniperNetworksForm.doc | Juniper Networks Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.kindermorgan.com/community/km_foundation_matching_gift.cfm Kinder Morgan (Formerly El Paso Corporation)]<br/><br />
[https://secure16.easymatch.com/KTFOUNDATION/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp KLA-Tencor Employee Funds] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/kraft Kraft Foods] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/lawrencelivermore Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory] <br/><br />
LexisNexis Cares Matching Gift Program <br/><br />
[https://federate.xh1.lilly.com/idp/startSSO.ping?PartnerSpId=JKGROUP2&IdpAdapterId=LDAP&TargetResource=https://www.easymatch.com/lillyvp Lilly] <br/><br />
Liquidnet Double Down Program <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/LubrizolForm.pdf Lubrizol Foundation] <br/><br />
Macarthur Foundation <br/><br />
Managed Health Care Associates, Inc.<br/><br />
Map Royalty, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.hastings.edu/downloads/MastercardMatchForm.pdf MasterCard International, Inc. Matching Gifts Application] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/mcgrawhill.pdf McGraw-Hill Companies] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/mckessongive McKesson Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/merck Merck] <br/><br />
[http://www.theatreworks.org/media/upload/pdf/MerrillLynch.pdf Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc.] <br/><br />
[[:File:MicrosoftForm.pdf | Microsoft Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[:File:MidlandNationalForm.pdf | Midland National Life Insurance Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Millennium Matching Gift Program <br/><br />
[http://www.millipore.com/corporategiving/mf3/matching_gifts Millipore Foundation]<br/><br />
[[:File:MoodysFoundationForm.pdf | Moody's Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.morganstanley.com/globalcitizen/ms_guidelines.html Morgan Stanley]<br/><br />
[http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/community/EmployeeEngagement/ Motorola Mobility]<br/><br />
[http://responsibility.motorolasolutions.com/ Motorola Solutions]<br/><br />
[https://givingprograms.com/msnbc/ MSNBC Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.authsm.newyorklife.com/siteminderagent/forms/FTLogin.fcc?TYPE=33554432&REALMOID=06-f15467e0-b238-1004-8d1f-839b2c470cb3&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=-SM-Osxf2QIy%2bTXo4HVdDHSqwh8zx4bwlBbWRU%2ff0tHOH%2bwpLr5yXNCr%2fZZruaajGvODwOpzYIoi5sQiFV2fAmk4Ns%2fi%2f2FGzT%2fe&TARGET=$SM$https%3a%2f%2fwww.pfed.newyorklife.com%3a9031%2fidp%2fresumeSAML11%2fidp%2fstartSSO.ping New York Life] <br/><br />
[https://we.nike.com/login Nike, Inc. Matching Gifts] <br/><br />
Noblis, Inc.<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/nicegive Nokia Nice Employee Matching Gift Program]<br/><br />
NOZA <br/><br />
[[:File:OracleForm.doc | Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
PayPal <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/PepsiCo PepsiCo Foundation] <br/><br />
[[:File:PfizerForm.pdf | Pfizer, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Pohlad Family Foundation <br/><br />
[http://www.portlandgeneral.com/community_environment/community_involvement/our_programs/default.aspx Portland General Electric Co. Employee Giving Campaign]<br/><br />
Progressive Insurance Foundation <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/prudential/ Prudential Foundation] <br/><br />
Qualcomm, Inc.<br/><br />
Raytheon <br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/REAL/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp RealNetworks, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Regence Employee Giving Campaign <br/><br />
Rejuvination, Inc.<br/><br />
Reward Action <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/reynoldsamericangive Reynolds American Foundation] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/Rockefeller.pdf Rockefeller Foundation]<br/><br />
Safeco Insurance Matching Gifts Program <br/><br />
[http://www.sap.com/usa/about/citizenship/matchinggift/index.epx SAP America, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/SquareDSchneider.pdf Schneider Electric] <br/><br />
Silicon Labs (Silabs)<br/><br />
Soros Fund Charitable Foundation <br/><br />
Starbucks Partner Match Program <br/><br />
State Street Matching Gift Program <br/><br />
Swiss Re <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/synopsys/agency Synopsys]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/Takeda Takeda] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/teconnectivity TE Connectivity] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/telcordiagive Telcordia] <br/><br />
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/eg_login.login?x_gm_id=4296 Texas Instruments] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/TextronGuidelines2009.pdf Textron Inc.]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/thermofishergive Thermo Fisher Scientific] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/wfhf The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] <br/><br />
[https://safe.thomson.com/auth/router?action=Login&ProtectionLevel=SAFE10&TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-68be9cec-af58-465a-9f9a-f1b34628cdff&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=$SM$pGWYkJqUdnDG1bbdx%2fq%2fTlGpNLyKcPXVjfkcRgFp%2bgDbkpeoXWxI5JoQHCMI8YMa&TARGET=$SM$HTTPS%3a%2f%2fsafe.thomson.com%2fSAML1%2fssoHigh%2fSAML1Service%3fapp%3deasymatch_prod Thomson Reuters] <br/><br />
[[:File:TimeWarnerForm.pdf | Time Warner, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://uewreports.truist.com/help/info.tcl?type=donor Truist]<br/><br />
[[:File:TycoElectronicsForm.pdf | Tyco Electronics Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7970 UBS Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[:File:UnileverForm.pdf | Unilever Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/UTC United Technologies] <br/><br />
United Way Central New Mexico <br/><br />
[http://uewreports.truist.com/help/ United Way Silicon Valley] <br/><br />
[http://uewreports.truist.com/help/info.tcl?type=donor United Way Special Distribution Account] <br/><br />
[https://secure15.easymatch.com/verisigncares/Applications/MatchingGifts/Default.aspx Verisign] <br/><br />
[[:File:MatchingGifts 2012 - Verisk Analytics.pdf | Verisk Analytics Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.verizonfoundation.org/employee-retiree/matching-gifts-program/ Verizon Communications, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://myvmware-stg.horizonmanager.com/SAAS/API/1.0/GET/apps/launch/app/1440 VMWare Foundation] <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/washpostgive The Washington Post Company] <br/><br />
Wellington Management <br/><br />
[https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/csr/team/ Wells Fargo (Formerly Wachovia Bank Matching Gifts Program)]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/xcelenergygive Xcel Energy Corporate Citizenship Foundation] <br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=9776 Yahoo! Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
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==Matching Gifts==<br />
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Matching Gifts are a great, easy way to double or even triple your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. Many companies support employee philanthropy by offering matching gift programs. By taking advantage of your corporate matching gift program, you can maximize the value of your gift at no additional cost. Please check with your HR department to see if your employer will match your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
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==How does this program work?==<br />
Although programs may vary from company to company, the process is usually very simple:<br />
# Confirm that your company has a matching gifts program and obtain the appropriate Matching Gifts Form from your employer. Matching gifts must be employee initiated. Wikimedia Foundation cannot request the match.<br />
# Complete the form and send it to the Wikimedia Foundation at our physical address:<br />
#::Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br />
#::P.O. Box 98204<br />
#::Washington, DC 20090-8204 USA <br /><br />
#:or email the form to matching{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
# The Wikimedia Foundation will verify your donation and send the form back to your company<br />
# Your company will send a matching gift contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation<br />
# Matching gifts should be directed to:<br/><br />
::Renee Bracey Sherman<br/><br />
::matching{{@}}wikimedia.org<br/><br />
::+1-415-839-6885<br/> <br />
::For your reference, our United States Tax ID is: '''20-0049703'''<br />
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===Combined Federal Campaign===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is on the United States 2011 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Charity List as a national/international independent organization. Our code is: '''61478'''.<br />
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<h2 style="style="text-align:right;font-family:Tahoma" border:0; line-height:1em; margin-bottom:0; padding-top:0;"> {{{leading-head|'''Organizations that have supported the WMF through the generosity of their employees'''}}} </h2><br />
Many people and their employers have already partnered in donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. We are grateful for their support and generosity. If someone has already donated a matching contribution, you can find more information about their matching gifts program here:<br />
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{{Columns|3}}<br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/AdobeMG Adobe Systems, Inc].<br/><br />
[https://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/aetna.eg_login.choose_login Aetna Foundation Matching Grant Programs]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/agilent Agilent]<br/> <br />
[[:File:AIGMatchingGifts Application.pdf | AIG Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/eg_login.login?x_gm_id=3597 Albemarie Foundation]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/alliancebernsteingive Alliance Bernstein]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/AllstateForm.pdf Allstate]<br/><br />
[http://www.ally.com/about/community-relations/ Ally] <br/><br />
Amazon.com<br/><br />
[http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/corporate-information/corporate-responsibility/community/Pages/giving-program.aspx AMD Foundation]<br/><br />
America's Charities <br/><br />
[[:File:AmercianExpress.pdf | American Express Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
AmeriGives<br/><br />
[http://www.ameriprise.com/about-ameriprise-financial/company-information/ameriprise-community-relations.asp Ameriprise Financial] <br/><br />
[http://www.amgen.com/citizenship/staff_involvement.html Amgen Foundation]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/aolgive AOL]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/AonGuidelines.pdf AON]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/apple Apple]<br/><br />
Arthur Martin Colonial Brookwood Center<br/><br />
[http://www3.vpt.org/pdfs/matchinggifts/attfoundation.pdf AT&T]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BAENetworkSystems.pdf BAE Network Systems] <br/><br />
[http://www.ball.com/employee-giving/ Ball Corporation]<br/><br />
[[:File:bankofamerica.pdf | Bank of America Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BarclaysGlobalGuidelines.pdf Barclays Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.bd.com/responsibility/community/matching_gifts.asp BD Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
BHP Billiton<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/gatesfoundation/ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]<br/><br />
[http://benefits.web3.stanley.klunkmillan.net/sites/benefits.stanleyblackanddecker.com/files/documents/matching_gifts_program_form.doc Black and Decker Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BlackRock2008.pdf BlackRock]<br/><br />
[http://www.multnomah.edu/Common/pdf/Contributors/Employers/BP.pdf BP Foundation] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/BristolMyers.pdf Bristol-Myers Squibb Company]<br/><br />
[http://www.ca.com/us/community-affairs/employee-volunteerism-and-matching-gifts.aspx CA Together Matching Gifts Programs]<br/><br />
Cadence<br/><br />
[http://www.capgroup.com/about_us/charitable_programs.html Capital Group Companies]<br/><br />
Cardinal Health Group Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
CarMax Foundation<br/><br />
Carnegie Corporation of New York <br/><br />
[http://www.aboutschwab.com/community/corporate_giving/employee_matching_gifts/ Charles Schwab Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/chevron?login=regular Chevron Humankind Project]<br/><br />
[http://www.cigna.com/aboutus/community-involvement CIGNA Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Citizens Financial Group/The Royal Bank of Scotland Group <br/><br />
[[:File:Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application.pdf | Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/coinstargive Coinstar Cares] <br/><br />
ConocoPhillips <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/covidien Coviden] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/CooperIndustries.pdf Cooper Industries Foundation Matching Gifts Plan]<br/><br />
D&B Foundation <br/><br />
Dell<br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/dbafmgp/CustomerData/forms/mgForm.pdf Deutsche Bank]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/dolby Dolby] <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/Dominion Dominion Foundation] <br/><br />
Duke Energy Foundation <br/><br />
[[:File:e_bay_mg_form.pdf | eBay Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.ea.com/outreach Electronic Arts]<br/><br />
[http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/community/request_ecf_grant.html Employee's Community Fund of the Boeing Company]<br/><br />
Erik Zachte <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/ETSCARES ETS Cares Campaign] <br/><br />
[http://careers.expedia.com/content/expediacares/ Expedia, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/Exxon2008Form.pdf ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Fannie Mae <br/> <br />
FIM Group <br/><br />
Ford Foundation <br/><br />
[http://www.easymatch.com/FTIMG Franklin Templeton Investments] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/freddiemac/ Freddie Mac Foundation] <br/><br />
[[:File:Gap Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application.pdf | Gap Foundation Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Gartner Group, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.ge.com/foundation/employee_programs/matching_gifts.jsp GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Giving Tree Fund<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/GSK GlaxoSmithKline] <br/><br />
Global Impact <br/><br />
[[:File:GoldmanSachsForm.pdf | Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.easymatch.com/goodrichgive Goodrich Corporation] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/google Google Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Grainger <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/harvarduniversitygive Harvard Community Gifts] <br/><br />
Hospira Employee Giving Campaign <br/><br />
Houghton Mifflin <br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7230 Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/hospira Hospira Employee Giving Program]<br/><br />
[[:File:HoughtonMifflinGuidelines&Form.pdf | Houghton Miffling Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Intercontinental Hotels Group<br/><br />
Intuit <br/><br />
Invest In Others <br/><br />
[[:File:ISOForm.pdf | ISO Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/eg_login.login?x_gm_id=3507 ITW Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
JK Group Trustees for Visa International Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/JHancock John Hancock Matching Gifts Program] <br/><br />
[[:File:JPMCForm.pdf | JP Morgan Chase and Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[:File:JuniperNetworksForm.doc | Juniper Networks Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.kindermorgan.com/community/km_foundation_matching_gift.cfm Kinder Morgan (Formerly El Paso Corporation)]<br/><br />
[https://secure16.easymatch.com/KTFOUNDATION/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp KLA-Tencor Employee Funds] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/kraft Kraft Foods] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/lawrencelivermore Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory] <br/><br />
LexisNexis Cares Matching Gift Program <br/><br />
[https://federate.xh1.lilly.com/idp/startSSO.ping?PartnerSpId=JKGROUP2&IdpAdapterId=LDAP&TargetResource=https://www.easymatch.com/lillyvp Lilly] <br/><br />
Liquidnet Double Down Program <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/LubrizolForm.pdf Lubrizol Foundation] <br/><br />
Macarthur Foundation <br/><br />
Managed Health Care Associates, Inc.<br/><br />
Map Royalty, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.hastings.edu/downloads/MastercardMatchForm.pdf MasterCard International, Inc. Matching Gifts Application] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/mcgrawhill.pdf McGraw-Hill Companies] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/mckessongive McKesson Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/merck Merck] <br/><br />
[http://www.theatreworks.org/media/upload/pdf/MerrillLynch.pdf Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc.] <br/><br />
[[:File:MicrosoftForm.pdf | Microsoft Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[:File:MidlandNationalForm.pdf | Midland National Life Insurance Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Millennium Matching Gift Program <br/><br />
[http://www.millipore.com/corporategiving/mf3/matching_gifts Millipore Foundation]<br/><br />
[[:File:MoodysFoundationForm.pdf | Moody's Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.morganstanley.com/globalcitizen/ms_guidelines.html Morgan Stanley]<br/><br />
[http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/community/EmployeeEngagement/ Motorola Mobility]<br/><br />
[http://responsibility.motorolasolutions.com/ Motorola Solutions]<br/><br />
[https://givingprograms.com/msnbc/ MSNBC Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.authsm.newyorklife.com/siteminderagent/forms/FTLogin.fcc?TYPE=33554432&REALMOID=06-f15467e0-b238-1004-8d1f-839b2c470cb3&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=-SM-Osxf2QIy%2bTXo4HVdDHSqwh8zx4bwlBbWRU%2ff0tHOH%2bwpLr5yXNCr%2fZZruaajGvODwOpzYIoi5sQiFV2fAmk4Ns%2fi%2f2FGzT%2fe&TARGET=$SM$https%3a%2f%2fwww.pfed.newyorklife.com%3a9031%2fidp%2fresumeSAML11%2fidp%2fstartSSO.ping New York Life] <br/><br />
[https://we.nike.com/login Nike, Inc. Matching Gifts] <br/><br />
Noblis, Inc.<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/nicegive Nokia Nice Employee Matching Gift Program]<br/><br />
NOZA <br/><br />
[[:File:OracleForm.doc | Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
PayPal <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/PepsiCo PepsiCo Foundation] <br/><br />
[[:File:PfizerForm.pdf | Pfizer, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Pohlad Family Foundation <br/><br />
[http://www.portlandgeneral.com/community_environment/community_involvement/our_programs/default.aspx Portland General Electric Co. Employee Giving Campaign]<br/><br />
Progressive Insurance Foundation <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/prudential/ Prudential Foundation] <br/><br />
Qualcomm, Inc.<br/><br />
Raytheon <br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/REAL/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp RealNetworks, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Regence Employee Giving Campaign <br/><br />
Rejuvination, Inc.<br/><br />
Reward Action <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/reynoldsamericangive Reynolds American Foundation] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/Rockefeller.pdf Rockefeller Foundation]<br/><br />
Safeco Insurance Matching Gifts Program <br/><br />
[http://www.sap.com/usa/about/citizenship/matchinggift/index.epx SAP America, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/SquareDSchneider.pdf Schneider Electric] <br/><br />
Silicon Labs (Silabs)<br/><br />
Soros Fund Charitable Foundation <br/><br />
Starbucks Partner Match Program <br/><br />
State Street Matching Gift Program <br/><br />
Swiss Re <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/synopsys/agency Synopsys]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/Takeda Takeda] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/teconnectivity TE Connectivity] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/telcordiagive Telcordia] <br/><br />
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/eg_login.login?x_gm_id=4296 Texas Instruments] <br/><br />
[http://forms.matchinggifts.com/TextronGuidelines2009.pdf Textron Inc.]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/thermofishergive Thermo Fisher Scientific] <br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/wfhf The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] <br/><br />
[https://safe.thomson.com/auth/router?action=Login&ProtectionLevel=SAFE10&TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-68be9cec-af58-465a-9f9a-f1b34628cdff&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=$SM$pGWYkJqUdnDG1bbdx%2fq%2fTlGpNLyKcPXVjfkcRgFp%2bgDbkpeoXWxI5JoQHCMI8YMa&TARGET=$SM$HTTPS%3a%2f%2fsafe.thomson.com%2fSAML1%2fssoHigh%2fSAML1Service%3fapp%3deasymatch_prod Thomson Reuters] <br/><br />
[[:File:TimeWarnerForm.pdf | Time Warner, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://uewreports.truist.com/help/info.tcl?type=donor Truist]<br/><br />
[[:File:TycoElectronicsForm.pdf | Tyco Electronics Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7970 UBS Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[:File:UnileverForm.pdf | Unilever Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/UTC United Technologies] <br/><br />
United Way Central New Mexico <br/><br />
[http://uewreports.truist.com/help/ United Way Silicon Valley] <br/><br />
[http://uewreports.truist.com/help/info.tcl?type=donor United Way Special Distribution Account] <br/><br />
[https://secure15.easymatch.com/verisigncares/Applications/MatchingGifts/Default.aspx Verisign] <br/><br />
[http://www.verizonfoundation.org/employee-retiree/matching-gifts-program/ Verizon Communications, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://myvmware-stg.horizonmanager.com/SAAS/API/1.0/GET/apps/launch/app/1440 VMWare Foundation] <br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/washpostgive The Washington Post Company] <br/><br />
Wellington Management <br/><br />
[https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/csr/team/ Wells Fargo (Formerly Wachovia Bank Matching Gifts Program)]<br/><br />
[https://easymatch.com/xcelenergygive Xcel Energy Corporate Citizenship Foundation] <br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=9776 Yahoo! Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
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===Matching Gifts===<br />
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Matching Gifts are a great, easy way to double or even triple your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. Many companies support employee philanthropy by offering matching gift programs. By taking advantage of your corporate matching gift program, you can maximize the value of your gift at no additional cost. Please check with your HR department to see if your employer will match your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
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===How does this program work?===<br />
Although programs may vary from company to company, the process is usually very simple:<br />
# Confirm that your company has a matching gifts program and obtain the appropriate Matching Gifts Form from your employer<br />
# Complete the form and send it to the Wikimedia Foundation at our physical address:<br />
#::Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br />
#::P.O. Box 98204<br />
#::Washington, DC 20090-8204 USA <br /><br />
#:or email: [mailto:giving@wikimedia.org giving@wikimedia.org]<br />
# The Wikimedia Foundation will verify your donation and send the form back to your company<br />
# Your company will send a matching gift contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation<br />
# Matching gifts should be directed to:<br/><br />
::Joshua VanDavier<br/><br />
::[mailto:giving@wikimedia.org giving@wikimedia.org]<br/><br />
::+1-415-839-6885<br/> <br />
::For your reference, our United States Tax ID is: '''20-0049703'''<br />
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===Combined Federal Campaign===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is on the United States 2011 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Charity List as a national/international independent organization. Our code is: '''61478'''.<br />
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===Organizations that have supported the WMF through the generosity of their employees===<br />
Many people and their employers have already partnered in donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. We are grateful for their support and generosity. If someone has already donated a matching contribution, you can find more information about their matching gifts program here:<br />
<br />
Adobe Systems, Inc.<br/><br />
Aetna Matching Gifts Application<br/><br />
[[Media:AIGMatchingGifts Application.pdf | AIG Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:AmercianExpress.pdf | American Express Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.amgen.com/citizenship/staff_involvement.html Amgen Foundation]<br/><br />
Arthur Martin Colonial Brookwood Center<br/><br />
Ball Corporation<br/><br />
[[Media:bankofamerica.pdf | Bank of America Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://barclays.smartchange.com Barclays Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.bd.com/responsibility/community/matching_gifts.asp BD Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<br/><br />
[http://www.bdk.com/citizenship/CommunityGiving.htm Black and Decker Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
BlackRock<br/><br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company<br/><br />
[http://www.ca.com/us/about/content.aspx?cid=142897 CA Together Matching Gifts Programs]<br/><br />
[http://www.capgroup.com/about_us/charitable_programs.html Capital Group Companies]<br/><br />
Cardinal Health Group Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
Carnegie Corporation of New York<br/><br />
[http://www.aboutschwab.com/community/corporate-giving/index.html Charles Schwab Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/chevron?login=regular Chevron Humankind Project]<br/><br />
[http://www.cigna.com/about_us/community/matching_gifts.html CIGNA Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application.pdf | Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Cooper Industries Foundation Matching Gifts Plan<br/><br />
Dell<br/><br />
Deutsche Bank<br/><br />
[[Media:e_bay_mg_form.pdf | eBay Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
El Paso Corporation<br/><br />
Electronic Arts<br/><br />
Employee's Community Fund of the Boeing Company<br/><br />
ETS Cares Campaign<br/><br />
[http://overview.expediainc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=190013&p=employee_involvement Expedia, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
FIM Group<br/><br />
[[Media:Gap Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application.pdf | Gap Foundation Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Gartner Group, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.ge.com/foundation/employee_programs/matching_gifts.jsp GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Giving Tree Fund<br/><br />
[[Media:GoldmanSachsForm.pdf | Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/google Google Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/hospira Hospira Employee Giving Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:HoughtonMifflinGuidelines&Form.pdf | Houghton Miffling Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Intercontinental Hotels Group<br/><br />
[[Media:ISOForm.pdf | ISO Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
ITW Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
JK Group Trustees for Visa International Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
[[Media:JPMCForm.pdf | JP Morgan Chase and Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:JuniperNetworksForm.doc | Juniper Networks Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Lubrizol Foundation <br/><br />
Managed Health Care Associates, Inc.<br/><br />
Map Royalty, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MasterCardForm.doc | MasterCard International, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/mckessongive McKesson Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MicrosoftForm.pdf | Microsoft Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:MidlandNationalForm.pdf | Midland National Life Insurance Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Millipore Foundation<br/><br />
[[Media:MoodysFoundationForm.pdf | Moody's Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Morgan Stanley<br/><br />
Motorola Mobility<br/><br />
Motorola Solutions<br/><br />
MSNBC Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
[[Media:NikeForm.pdf | Nike, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Noblis, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:OracleForm.doc | Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:PfizerForm.pdf | Pfizer, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Portland General Electric Co. Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
Qualcomm, Inc.<br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/REAL/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp RealNetworks, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Rejuvination, Inc.<br/><br />
Rockefeller Foundation<br/><br />
[https://secure7.easymatch.com/safeco/content/employee/downloads.asp Safeco Insurance Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.sap.com/usa/about/citizenship/matchinggift/index.epx SAP America, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Synopsys <br/><br />
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.<br/><br />
Textron Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:TimeWarnerForm.pdf | Time Warner, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:TycoElectronicsForm.pdf | Tyco Electronics Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7970 UBS Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:UnileverForm.pdf | Unilever Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://foundation.verizon.com/employee/matching_gifts.shtml Verizon Communications, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://onlineservices.wachovia.com/auth/AuthService?action=presentLogin&logincode=HROnline&url=https%3a//hronline.wachovia.com Wachovia Bank Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=9776 Yahoo! Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
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===Matching Gifts===<br />
<br />
Matching Gifts are a great, easy way to double or even triple your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. Many companies support employee philanthropy by offering matching gift programs. By taking advantage of your corporate matching gift program, you can maximize the value of your gift at no additional cost. Please check with your HR department to see if your employer will match your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
<br />
===How does this program work?===<br />
Although programs may vary from company to company, the process is usually very simple:<br />
# Confirm that your company has a matching gifts program and obtain the appropriate Matching Gifts Form from your employer<br />
# Complete the form and send it to the Wikimedia Foundation at our physical address:<br />
#::Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br />
#::P.O. Box 98204<br />
#::Washington, DC 20090-8204 USA <br /><br />
#:or email: [mailto:giving@wikimedia.org giving@wikimedia.org]<br />
# The Wikimedia Foundation will verify your donation and send the form back to your company<br />
# Your company will send a matching gift contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation<br />
# Matching gifts should be directed to:<br/><br />
::Joshua VanDavier<br/><br />
::[mailto:giving@wikimedia.org giving@wikimedia.org]<br/><br />
::+1-415-839-6885<br/> <br />
::For your reference, our United States Tax ID is: '''20-0049703'''<br />
<br />
===Combined Federal Campaign===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is on the United States 2011 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Charity List as a national/international independent organization. Our code is: '''61478'''.<br />
<br />
===Organizations that have supported the WMF through the generosity of their employees===<br />
Many people and their employers have already partnered in donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. We are grateful for their support and generosity. If someone has already donated a matching contribution, you can find more information about their matching gifts program here:<br />
<br />
Adobe Systems, Inc.<br/><br />
Aetna Matching Gifts Application<br/><br />
[[Media:AIGMatchingGifts Application.pdf | AIG Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:AmercianExpress.pdf | American Express Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.amgen.com/citizenship/staff_involvement.html Amgen Foundation]<br/><br />
Arthur Martin Colonial Brookwood Center<br/><br />
Ball Corporation<br/><br />
[[Media:bankofamerica.pdf | Bank of America Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://barclays.smartchange.com Barclays Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.bd.com/responsibility/community/matching_gifts.asp BD Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<br/><br />
[http://www.bdk.com/citizenship/CommunityGiving.htm Black and Decker Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
BlackRock<br/><br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company<br/><br />
[http://www.ca.com/us/about/content.aspx?cid=142897 CA Together Matching Gifts Programs]<br/><br />
[http://www.capgroup.com/about_us/charitable_programs.html Capital Group Companies]<br/><br />
Cardinal Health Group Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
Carnegie Corporation of New York<br/><br />
[http://www.aboutschwab.com/community/corporate-giving/index.html Charles Schwab Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/chevron?login=regular Chevron Humankind Project]<br/><br />
[http://www.cigna.com/about_us/community/matching_gifts.html CIGNA Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application.pdf | Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Cooper Industries Foundation Matching Gifts Plan<br/><br />
Dell<br/><br />
Deutsche Bank<br/><br />
[[Media:e_bay_mg_form.pdf | eBay Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
El Paso Corporation<br/><br />
Electronic Arts<br/><br />
Employee's Community Fund of the Boeing Company<br/><br />
ETS Cares Campaign<br/><br />
[http://overview.expediainc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=190013&p=employee_involvement Expedia, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
FIM Group<br/><br />
[[Media:Gap Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application.pdf | Gap Foundation Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Gartner Group, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.ge.com/foundation/employee_programs/matching_gifts.jsp GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Giving Tree Fund<br/><br />
[[Media:GoldmanSachsForm.pdf | Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/google Google Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/hospira Hospira Employee Giving Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:HoughtonMifflinGuidelines&Form.pdf | Houghton Miffling Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
IBM<br/><br />
Intercontinental Hotels Group<br/><br />
[[Media:ISOForm.pdf | ISO Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
ITW Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
JK Group Trustees for Visa International Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
[[Media:JPMCForm.pdf | JP Morgan Chase and Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:JuniperNetworksForm.doc | Juniper Networks Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Lubrizol Foundation <br/><br />
Managed Health Care Associates, Inc.<br/><br />
Map Royalty, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MasterCardForm.doc | MasterCard International, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/mckessongive McKesson Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MicrosoftForm.pdf | Microsoft Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:MidlandNationalForm.pdf | Midland National Life Insurance Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Millipore Foundation<br/><br />
[[Media:MoodysFoundationForm.pdf | Moody's Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Morgan Stanley<br/><br />
Motorola Mobility<br/><br />
Motorola Solutions<br/><br />
MSNBC Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
[[Media:NikeForm.pdf | Nike, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Noblis, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:OracleForm.doc | Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:PfizerForm.pdf | Pfizer, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Portland General Electric Co. Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
Qualcomm, Inc.<br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/REAL/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp RealNetworks, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Rejuvination, Inc.<br/><br />
Rockefeller Foundation<br/><br />
[https://secure7.easymatch.com/safeco/content/employee/downloads.asp Safeco Insurance Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.sap.com/usa/about/citizenship/matchinggift/index.epx SAP America, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Synopsys <br/><br />
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.<br/><br />
Textron Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:TimeWarnerForm.pdf | Time Warner, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:TycoElectronicsForm.pdf | Tyco Electronics Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7970 UBS Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:UnileverForm.pdf | Unilever Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://foundation.verizon.com/employee/matching_gifts.shtml Verizon Communications, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://onlineservices.wachovia.com/auth/AuthService?action=presentLogin&logincode=HROnline&url=https%3a//hronline.wachovia.com Wachovia Bank Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=9776 Yahoo! Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
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===Matching Gifts===<br />
<br />
Matching Gifts are a great, easy way to double or even triple your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. Many companies support employee philanthropy by offering matching gift programs. By taking advantage of your corporate matching gift program, you can maximize the value of your gift at no additional cost. Please check with your HR department to see if your employer will match your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
<br />
===How does this program work?===<br />
Although programs may vary from company to company, the process is usually very simple:<br />
# Confirm that your company has a matching gifts program and obtain the appropriate Matching Gifts Form<br />
# Complete the form and send it to the Wikimedia Foundation at our physical address:<br />
#::Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br />
#::P.O. Box 98204<br />
#::Washington, DC 20090-8204 USA <br /><br />
#:or email: [mailto:giving@wikimedia.org giving@wikimedia.org]<br />
# The Wikimedia Foundation will verify your donation and send the form back to your company<br />
# Your company will send a matching gift contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation<br />
<br />
For more information please contact:<br/><br />
Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising<br/><br />
[mailto:giving@wikimedia.org giving@wikimedia.org]<br/><br />
<br />
===Combined Federal Campaign===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is on the United States 2011 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Charity List as a national/international independent organization. Our code is: '''61478'''.<br />
<br />
===Organizations that have supported the WMF through the generosity of their employees===<br />
Many people and their employers have already partnered in donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. We are grateful for their support and generosity. If someone has already donated a matching contribution, you can find more information about their matching gifts program here:<br />
<br />
Adobe Systems, Inc.<br/><br />
Aetna Matching Gifts Application<br/><br />
[[Media:AIGMatchingGifts Application.pdf | AIG Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:AmercianExpress.pdf | American Express Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.amgen.com/citizenship/staff_involvement.html Amgen Foundation]<br/><br />
Arthur Martin Colonial Brookwood Center<br/><br />
Ball Corporation<br/><br />
[[Media:bankofamerica.pdf | Bank of America Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://barclays.smartchange.com Barclays Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.bd.com/responsibility/community/matching_gifts.asp BD Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<br/><br />
[http://www.bdk.com/citizenship/CommunityGiving.htm Black and Decker Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
BlackRock<br/><br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company<br/><br />
[http://www.ca.com/us/about/content.aspx?cid=142897 CA Together Matching Gifts Programs]<br/><br />
[http://www.capgroup.com/about_us/charitable_programs.html Capital Group Companies]<br/><br />
Cardinal Health Group Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
Carnegie Corporation of New York<br/><br />
[http://www.aboutschwab.com/community/corporate-giving/index.html Charles Schwab Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/chevron?login=regular Chevron Humankind Project]<br/><br />
[http://www.cigna.com/about_us/community/matching_gifts.html CIGNA Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application.pdf | Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Cooper Industries Foundation Matching Gifts Plan<br/><br />
Dell<br/><br />
Deutsche Bank<br/><br />
[[Media:e_bay_mg_form.pdf | eBay Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
El Paso Corporation<br/><br />
Electronic Arts<br/><br />
Employee's Community Fund of the Boeing Company<br/><br />
ETS Cares Campaign<br/><br />
[http://overview.expediainc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=190013&p=employee_involvement Expedia, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
FIM Group<br/><br />
[[Media:Gap Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application.pdf | Gap Foundation Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Gartner Group, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.ge.com/foundation/employee_programs/matching_gifts.jsp GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Giving Tree Fund<br/><br />
[[Media:GoldmanSachsForm.pdf | Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/google Google Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/hospira Hospira Employee Giving Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:HoughtonMifflinGuidelines&Form.pdf | Houghton Miffling Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
IBM<br/><br />
Intercontinental Hotels Group<br/><br />
[[Media:ISOForm.pdf | ISO Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
ITW Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
JK Group Trustees for Visa International Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
[[Media:JPMCForm.pdf | JP Morgan Chase and Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:JuniperNetworksForm.doc | Juniper Networks Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Lubrizol Foundation <br/><br />
Managed Health Care Associates, Inc.<br/><br />
Map Royalty, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MasterCardForm.doc | MasterCard International, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/mckessongive McKesson Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MicrosoftForm.pdf | Microsoft Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:MidlandNationalForm.pdf | Midland National Life Insurance Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Millipore Foundation<br/><br />
[[Media:MoodysFoundationForm.pdf | Moody's Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Morgan Stanley<br/><br />
Motorola Mobility<br/><br />
Motorola Solutions<br/><br />
MSNBC Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
[[Media:NikeForm.pdf | Nike, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Noblis, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:OracleForm.doc | Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:PfizerForm.pdf | Pfizer, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Portland General Electric Co. Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
Quallcomm, Inc.<br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/REAL/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp RealNetworks, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Rejuvination, Inc.<br/><br />
Rockefeller Foundation<br/><br />
[https://secure7.easymatch.com/safeco/content/employee/downloads.asp Safeco Insurance Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.sap.com/usa/about/citizenship/matchinggift/index.epx SAP America, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Synopsys <br/><br />
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.<br/><br />
Textron Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:TimeWarnerForm.pdf | Time Warner, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:TycoElectronicsForm.pdf | Tyco Electronics Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7970 UBS Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:UnileverForm.pdf | Unilever Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://foundation.verizon.com/employee/matching_gifts.shtml Verizon Communications, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://onlineservices.wachovia.com/auth/AuthService?action=presentLogin&logincode=HROnline&url=https%3a//hronline.wachovia.com Wachovia Bank Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=9776 Yahoo! Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
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== {{{foundation-head|Foundation support}}} ==<br />
<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.omidyar.com Omidyar Network] ([[Press releases/Omidyar Network Grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation ([[Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_$2_million_grant_from_Google|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Stanton Foundation ([[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|{{{press|Press release}}}]]) <br />
[http://www.hewlett.org The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] ([[Press releases/Hewlett Foundation grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.fordfound.org/ Ford Foundation] ([[Press releases/Wikimedia Ford Foundation Grant July 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk Arcadia]<br />
[http://rlounsbery.org Richard Lounsbery Foundation]<br />
[http://www.soros.org Open Society Institute]<br />
[http://indigotrust.wordpress.com Indigo Trust]<br />
The Brin Wojcicki Foundation<br />
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== {{{major-head|Major benefactors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (5)<br />
Alan Bauer<br />
The David and Jamie Cummings Family<br />
The Hellman Family Foundation<br />
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== {{{patrons-head|Patrons}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (3)<br />
Milonja Bjelic<br />
The Harnisch Family Foundation<br />
Ryan and Lisa McCorvie <br />
Christopher Ruddy<br />
Ron Unz <br />
Two Sigma Investments, LLC<br />
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== {{{leading-head|Leading donors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (23)<br />
Advanced Risk Sciences, Tel Aviv <br />
Michael & Xochi Birch<br />
Bohemian Foundation<br />
Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu<br />
Sandy and Linda Gallanter<br />
Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation <br />
Edward Tufte<br />
Mark Heising and Liz Simons<br />
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte<br />
J. Willis Jarvis<br />
Nora Roberts Foundation<br />
[http://www.mkf.org Mitchell Kapor Foundation]<br />
Charles R. Morcom<br />
Elon Musk<br />
Tyko Strassen<br />
James and Angela Thompson Foundation<br />
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv<br />
[http://witizen.org Witizen.org]<br />
{{{BITF|The Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation}}}<br />
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== {{{sustaining-head|Sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
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|- valign="top"<br />
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{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (195)<br />
Adam Fila<br />
Alex Dingle<br />
Alex Poon<br />
Anna Scott<br />
Autumn & Devrim<br />
Bajamonte Giacomo<br />
Bernhard Friess<br />
Betty Harrell Gerlack<br />
Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey<br />
BOKE (Proofreader77)<br />
Brian McInnis<br />
Christopher J. Lingle<br />
Dalibor Antonic<br />
David Weiler<br />
Deanne Weir, Sydney, Australia<br />
Diana Pirri<br />
Diane & Michael Culbert<br />
Diya Obeid, JobDiva, Inc.<br />
Don Husby<br />
Don and Jill Knuth<br />
Douglas Ferguson<br />
Douglas Tilden<br />
Franz Heinsen<br />
Fred Hipp<br />
Gabe Newell<br />
Greg and Liz Lutz<br />
Heather Bendler<br />
Hiromasa Nagase<br />
Hodson and Ludmila Thornber<br />
The IEEE Electron Devices Society<br />
In honor of Nick Peter<br />
In honor of Victoria Anne Meszaros<br />
In memory of Seymour Durst<br />
Jacob Albrecht<br />
Jacob Malmberg<br />
Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family<br />
Jason D. Simar<br />
Jeffrey Lamkin<br />
Jeffrey N. Dauber<br />
Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit<br />
Joel Spiegel<br />
John G. Dove, Arlington, Massachusetts<br />
John and Lenore Cooney<br />
Johnson Watts<br />
Joichi Ito<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
Jonathan Laventhol<br />
Joseph Willis<br />
Julien Basch<br />
Koodawg<br />
Laurelle Wildman<br />
Laurence G. Allen, NYPPEX Holdings<br />
Leong and Richards<br />
Lincoln Cassady<br />
Linda Lee<br />
Luke Skywalker<br />
Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher<br />
Marc Forand<br />
Marcus Wittke<br />
Mark E. Merritt and Lorena Barrientos<br />
Mathew Donovan<br />
Muhammad Dawood<br />
Murtada Elkhalifa<br />
Nicole Lieger<br />
Philip Ardery<br />
PogoTribe<br />
The Quillin-Morgan Family<br />
Reese Schonfeld<br />
Roland Digital Group Africa<br />
[http://plus.google.com/116196845534543846033/about Rui Ueyama]<br />
Scandinavian software engineer<br />
Stephen Marcus<br />
Steve Kass<br />
Steve and Marty Schlossstein, Princeton, New Jersey<br />
Susan Woodward<br />
Takashi Kousaka<br />
Tetsuya Isozaki<br />
Tetsuya Nagase<br />
Thomas Edward Myers<br />
Thomas Ruth<br />
Travis and Donna Knight<br />
Wayne B. Hayes<br />
Wayne Hathaway<br />
[[Staff|Wikimedia Foundation Staff]]<br />
[http://dampes8n.com/ Will Brall]<br />
William Benter<br />
Wisdom & Compassion<br />
Yuma Nakaki<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{donations-head|Donations of goods and services}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.comscore.com comScore]<br />
[http://www.evoswitch.com EvoSwitch]<br />
[http://www.init7.net Init7]<br />
[http://www.teliasoneraic.com TeliaSonera International Carrier]<br />
[http://www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb]<br />
[http://nostarch.com/ No Starch Press]<br />
[http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems] <br />
[http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{special-head|Special thanks to our chapters}}} ==<br />
{{{special-intro|The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:}}}<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|22px|border|Australia]] Australia: ''[http://www.wikimedia.org.au/ Wikimedia Australia]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Austria.svg|22px|border|Austria]] Austria: ''[http://www.wikimedia.at/ Wikimedia Österreich]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of France.svg|22px|border|France]] France: ''[http://www.wikimedia.fr/ Wikimédia France]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|22px|border|Germany]] Germany: ''[http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Hungary.svg|22px|border|Hungary]] Hungary: ''[http://wiki.media.hu/ Wikimédia Magyarország]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|22px|border|The Netherlands]] Netherlands: ''[http://nl.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Nederland]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Sweden.svg|22px|border|Sweden]] Sweden: ''[http://se.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Sverige]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg|22px|border|Switzerland]] Switzerland: ''[http://www.wikimedia.ch/ Wikimedia CH]''<br />
[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|22px|border|United Kingdom]] United Kingdom: [http://www.wikimedia.org.uk Wikimedia UK]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{corporate-head|Corporate sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancecare.com aarp dental insurance for seniors]<br />
[http://www.vitavalida.de/ Abnehmen und Diät]<br />
[http://www.vimo.com Affordable Health Insurance]<br />
[http://www.avago.com.au Avago]<br />
[http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/ Balance Transfer Credit Cards]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/bronze-plaque Bronze Plaques]<br />
[http://www.clicktime.com ClickTime Web Timesheet]<br />
[http://www.shop.cookmax.de Cookmax Gastronomiebedarf]<br />
[http://www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au Cookware]<br />
[http://www.couponloco.com Coupon Loco Promo Codes]<br />
[http://www.couponcabin.com/ CouponCabin.com]<br />
[http://www.couponcommando.com/ CouponCommando.com]<br />
[http://www.customessaymeister.com/ Customessaymeister.com]<br />
[http://www.cybermonday2010.com Cyber Monday]<br />
[http://www.outdoorkidz.de/ finkid Kinderkleidung]<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.freeshipping.org Free Shipping Codes]<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancetips.com full coverage dental insurance]<br />
[http://www.herpesalliance.org Herpes Alliance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com Impact Business Signs]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/memorial-plaques Impact Memorial Plaques]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/custom-office-signs Impact Office Signs]<br />
[http://www.ratedetective.com.au/insurance/income-protection Income Protection Insurance]<br />
[http://www.theravive.com marriage counseling]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com medical scrubs]<br />
[http://www.online-druck.biz Online Druckerei]<br />
[http://www.nobelcom.com Phone Cards]<br />
[http://www.gopromotional.com Promotional Clothing]<br />
[http://www.rulearts.com RuleArts]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com scrubs]<br />
[http://www.ticketmomma.com/ TicketMomma.com]<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{contact-head|Contact}}} ==<br />
{{{contact-intro|For questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, please send an email to benefactors{{@}}wikimedia.org}}}.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Public relations]]<br />
[[Category:{{#language:{{{lang|en}}}}}]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Benefactors&diff=73331Template:Benefactors2011-11-08T22:10:41Z<p>Jvandavier: /* {{{leading-head|Leading donors}}} */ added Witizen.org</p>
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<div><div class="plainlinks"><br />
__NOTOC__<br />
{{{intro|As a nonprofit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation relies on the expertise and generosity of thousands of people all around the world. This page reflects gifts received after May 1, 2009.}}}<br />
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== {{{foundation-head|Foundation support}}} ==<br />
<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.omidyar.com Omidyar Network] ([[Press releases/Omidyar Network Grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation ([[Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_$2_million_grant_from_Google|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Stanton Foundation ([[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|{{{press|Press release}}}]]) <br />
[http://www.hewlett.org The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] ([[Press releases/Hewlett Foundation grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.fordfound.org/ Ford Foundation] ([[Press releases/Wikimedia Ford Foundation Grant July 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk Arcadia]<br />
[http://rlounsbery.org Richard Lounsbery Foundation]<br />
[http://www.soros.org Open Society Institute]<br />
[http://indigotrust.wordpress.com Indigo Trust]<br />
The Brin Wojcicki Foundation<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{major-head|Major benefactors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (5)<br />
Alan Bauer<br />
The David and Jamie Cummings Family<br />
The Hellman Family Foundation<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{patrons-head|Patrons}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (3)<br />
Milonja Bjelic<br />
The Harnisch Family Foundation<br />
Ryan and Lisa McCorvie <br />
Christopher Ruddy<br />
Ron Unz <br />
Two Sigma Investments, LLC<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{leading-head|Leading donors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (23)<br />
Advanced Risk Sciences, Tel Aviv <br />
Michael & Xochi Birch<br />
Bohemian Foundation<br />
Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu<br />
Sandy and Linda Gallanter<br />
Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation <br />
Edward Tufte<br />
Mark Heising and Liz Simons<br />
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte<br />
J. Willis Jarvis<br />
Nora Roberts Foundation<br />
[http://www.mkf.org Mitchell Kapor Foundation]<br />
Charles R. Morcom<br />
Elon Musk<br />
Tyko Strassen<br />
James and Angela Thompson Foundation<br />
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv<br />
[http://witizen.org Witizen.org]<br />
{{{BITF|The Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation}}}<br />
}}<br />
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== {{{sustaining-head|Sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (194)<br />
Adam Fila<br />
Alex Dingle<br />
Alex Poon<br />
Anna Scott<br />
Autumn & Devrim<br />
Bajamonte Giacomo<br />
Bernhard Friess<br />
Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey<br />
BOKE (Proofreader77)<br />
Brian McInnis<br />
Christopher J. Lingle<br />
Dalibor Antonic<br />
Deanne Weir, Sydney, Australia<br />
Diana Pirri<br />
Diane & Michael Culbert<br />
Diya Obeid, JobDiva, Inc.<br />
Don Husby<br />
Don and Jill Knuth<br />
Douglas Ferguson<br />
Douglas Tilden<br />
Franz Heinsen<br />
Fred Hipp<br />
Gabe Newell<br />
Greg and Liz Lutz<br />
Heather Bendler<br />
Hiromasa Nagase<br />
Hodson and Ludmila Thornber<br />
The IEEE Electron Devices Society<br />
In honor of Victoria Anne Meszaros<br />
In memory of Seymour Durst<br />
Jacob Albrecht<br />
Jacob Malmberg<br />
Jason D. Simar<br />
Jeffrey Lamkin<br />
Jeffrey N. Dauber<br />
Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit<br />
Joel Spiegel<br />
John G. Dove, Arlington, Massachusetts<br />
Johnson Watts<br />
Joichi Ito<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
Jonathan Laventhol<br />
Joseph Willis<br />
Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family<br />
Julien Basch<br />
Koodawg<br />
Laurelle Wildman<br />
Laurence G. Allen, NYPPEX Holdings<br />
Lincoln Cassady<br />
Linda Lee<br />
Luke Skywalker<br />
Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher<br />
Marc Forand<br />
Marcus Wittke<br />
Mark E. Merritt and Lorena Barrientos<br />
Mathew Donovan<br />
Muhammad Dawood<br />
Murtada Elkhalifa<br />
Nicole Lieger<br />
Philip Ardery<br />
PogoTribe<br />
Reese Schonfeld<br />
Roland Digital Group Africa<br />
Scandinavian software engineer<br />
Stephen Marcus<br />
Steve Kass<br />
Steve and Marty Schlossstein, Princeton, New Jersey<br />
Susan Woodward<br />
Takashi Kousaka<br />
Tetsuya Isozaki<br />
Tetsuya Nagase<br />
Thomas Edward Myers<br />
Thomas Ruth<br />
Travis and Donna Knight<br />
Wayne B. Hayes<br />
[[Staff|Wikimedia Foundation Staff]]<br />
[http://dampes8n.com/ Will Brall]<br />
William Benter<br />
Yuma Nakaki<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{donations-head|Donations of goods and services}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.comscore.com comScore]<br />
[http://www.evoswitch.com EvoSwitch]<br />
[http://www.init7.net Init7]<br />
[http://www.teliasoneraic.com TeliaSonera International Carrier]<br />
[http://www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb]<br />
[http://nostarch.com/ No Starch Press]<br />
[http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems] <br />
[http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{special-head|Special thanks to our chapters}}} ==<br />
{{{special-intro|The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:}}}<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[[Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg|22px|border]] '''{{{ch|Switzerland}}}: [[Wikimedia CH]]'''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|22px|border|Italy]] '''{{{it|Italia}}}: [[Wikimedia Italia]]'''<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{corporate-head|Corporate sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancecare.com aarp dental insurance for seniors]<br />
[http://www.vitavalida.de/ Abnehmen und Diät]<br />
[http://www.vimo.com Affordable Health Insurance]<br />
[http://www.avago.com.au Avago]<br />
[http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/ Balance Transfer Credit Cards]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/bronze-plaque Bronze Plaques]<br />
[http://www.clicktime.com ClickTime Web Timesheet]<br />
[http://www.shop.cookmax.de Cookmax Gastronomiebedarf]<br />
[http://www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au Cookware]<br />
[http://www.couponloco.com Coupon Loco Promo Codes]<br />
[http://www.couponcabin.com/ CouponCabin.com]<br />
[http://www.couponcommando.com/ CouponCommando.com]<br />
[http://www.customessaymeister.com/ Customessaymeister.com]<br />
[http://www.cybermonday2010.com Cyber Monday]<br />
[http://www.outdoorkidz.de/ finkid Kinderkleidung]<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.freeshipping.org Free Shipping Codes]<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancetips.com full coverage dental insurance]<br />
[http://www.herpesalliance.org Herpes Alliance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com Impact Business Signs]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/memorial-plaques Impact Memorial Plaques]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/custom-office-signs Impact Office Signs]<br />
[http://www.ratedetective.com.au/insurance/income-protection Income Protection Insurance]<br />
[http://www.theravive.com marriage counseling]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com medical scrubs]<br />
[http://www.online-druck.biz Online Druckerei]<br />
[http://www.nobelcom.com Phone Cards]<br />
[http://www.gopromotional.com Promotional Clothing]<br />
[http://www.rulearts.com RuleArts]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com scrubs]<br />
[http://www.ticketmomma.com/ TicketMomma.com]<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{contact-head|Contact}}} ==<br />
{{{contact-intro|For questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, please send an email to benefactors{{@}}wikimedia.org}}}.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Public relations]]<br />
[[Category:{{#language:{{{lang|en}}}}}]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Benefactors&diff=70593Template:Benefactors2011-10-13T18:49:06Z<p>Jvandavier: /* {{{foundation-head|Foundation support}}} */ updated Indigo Trust</p>
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<div><div class="plainlinks"><br />
__NOTOC__<br />
{{{intro|As a nonprofit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation relies on the expertise and generosity of thousands of people all around the world. This page reflects gifts received after May 1, 2009.}}}<br />
<br />
== {{{foundation-head|Foundation support}}} ==<br />
<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.omidyar.com Omidyar Network] ([[Press releases/Omidyar Network Grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation ([[Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_$2_million_grant_from_Google|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Stanton Foundation ([[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|{{{press|Press release}}}]]) <br />
[http://www.hewlett.org The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] ([[Press releases/Hewlett Foundation grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.fordfound.org/ Ford Foundation] ([[Press releases/Wikimedia Ford Foundation Grant July 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk Arcadia]<br />
[http://rlounsbery.org Richard Lounsbery Foundation]<br />
[http://www.soros.org Open Society Institute]<br />
[http://indigotrust.wordpress.com Indigo Trust]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{major-head|Major benefactors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (5)<br />
Alan Bauer<br />
The David and Jamie Cummings Family<br />
The Hellman Family Foundation<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{patrons-head|Patrons}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (3)<br />
Milonja Bjelic<br />
The Harnisch Family Foundation<br />
Ryan and Lisa McCorvie <br />
Christopher Ruddy<br />
Ron Unz <br />
Two Sigma Investments, LLC<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{leading-head|Leading donors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (23)<br />
Advanced Risk Sciences, Tel Aviv <br />
Michael & Xochi Birch<br />
Bohemian Foundation<br />
Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu<br />
Sandy and Linda Gallanter<br />
Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation <br />
Edward Tufte<br />
Mark Heising and Liz Simons<br />
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte<br />
J. Willis Jarvis<br />
Nora Roberts Foundation<br />
[http://www.mkf.org Mitchell Kapor Foundation]<br />
Charles R. Morcom<br />
Elon Musk<br />
Tyko Strassen<br />
James and Angela Thompson Foundation<br />
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv<br />
{{{BITF|The Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation}}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{sustaining-head|Sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (194)<br />
Adam Fila<br />
Alex Dingle<br />
Alex Poon<br />
Anna Scott<br />
Autumn & Devrim<br />
Bajamonte Giacomo<br />
Bernhard Friess<br />
Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey<br />
BOKE (Proofreader77)<br />
Brian McInnis<br />
Christopher J. Lingle<br />
Dalibor Antonic<br />
Deanne Weir, Sydney, Australia<br />
Diana Pirri<br />
Diane & Michael Culbert<br />
Don Husby<br />
Don and Jill Knuth<br />
Douglas Ferguson<br />
Douglas Tilden<br />
Franz Heinsen<br />
Fred Hipp<br />
Gabe Newell<br />
Greg and Liz Lutz<br />
Heather Bendler<br />
Hiromasa Nagase<br />
Hodson and Ludmila Thornber<br />
The IEEE Electron Devices Society<br />
In honor of Victoria Anne Meszaros<br />
In memory of Seymour Durst<br />
Jacob Albrecht<br />
Jacob Malmberg<br />
Jason D. Simar<br />
Jeffrey Lamkin<br />
Jeffrey N. Dauber<br />
Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit<br />
Joel Spiegel<br />
John G. Dove, Arlington, Massachusetts<br />
Johnson Watts<br />
Joichi Ito<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
Jonathan Laventhol<br />
Joseph Willis<br />
Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family<br />
Julien Basch<br />
Koodawg<br />
Laurelle Wildman<br />
Laurence G. Allen, NYPPEX Holdings<br />
Lincoln Cassady<br />
Linda Lee<br />
Luke Skywalker<br />
Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher<br />
Marc Forand<br />
Marcus Wittke<br />
Mark E. Merritt and Lorena Barrientos<br />
Mathew Donovan<br />
Muhammad Dawood<br />
Murtada Elkhalifa<br />
Nicole Lieger<br />
Philip Ardery<br />
PogoTribe<br />
Reese Schonfeld<br />
Roland Digital Group Africa<br />
Scandinavian software engineer<br />
Stephen Marcus<br />
Steve Kass<br />
Steve and Marty Schlossstein, Princeton, New Jersey<br />
Susan Woodward<br />
Takashi Kousaka<br />
Tetsuya Isozaki<br />
Tetsuya Nagase<br />
Thomas Edward Myers<br />
Thomas Ruth<br />
Travis and Donna Knight<br />
Wayne B. Hayes<br />
[[Staff|Wikimedia Foundation Staff]]<br />
[http://dampes8n.com/ Will Brall]<br />
William Benter<br />
Yuma Nakaki<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{donations-head|Donations of goods and services}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.comscore.com comScore]<br />
[http://www.evoswitch.com EvoSwitch]<br />
[http://www.init7.net Init7]<br />
[http://www.teliasoneraic.com TeliaSonera International Carrier]<br />
[http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet] <br />
[http://www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb]<br />
[http://nostarch.com/ No Starch Press]<br />
[http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems] <br />
[http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{special-head|Special thanks to our chapters}}} ==<br />
{{{special-intro|The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:}}}<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[[Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg|22px|border]] '''{{{ch|Switzerland}}}: [[Wikimedia CH]]'''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|22px|border|Italy]] '''{{{it|Italia}}}: [[Wikimedia Italia]]'''<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{corporate-head|Corporate sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancecare.com aarp dental insurance for seniors]<br />
[http://www.vitavalida.de/ Abnehmen und Diät]<br />
[http://www.vimo.com Affordable Health Insurance]<br />
[http://www.avago.com.au Avago]<br />
[http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/ Balance Transfer Credit Cards]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/memorial-plaques Bronze Memorial Plaques for Buildings]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/cast-bronze-plaques Cast Bronze Plaques and Markers]<br />
[http://www.clicktime.com ClickTime Web Timesheet]<br />
[http://www.shop.cookmax.de Cookmax Gastronomiebedarf]<br />
[http://www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au Cookware]<br />
[http://www.couponloco.com Coupon Loco Promo Codes]<br />
[http://www.couponcommando.com/ CouponCommando.com]<br />
[http://www.customessaymeister.com/ Customessaymeister.com]<br />
[http://www.cybermonday2010.com Cyber Monday]<br />
[http://www.outdoorkidz.de/ finkid Kinderkleidung]<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.freeshipping.org Free Shipping Codes]<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancetips.com full coverage dental insurance]<br />
[http://www.herpesalliance.org Herpes Alliance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/custom-office-signs Impact Office Signs - Custom Lobby Signage Company]<br />
[http://www.ratedetective.com.au/insurance/income-protection Income Protection Insurance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com Impact Custom Business Signs]<br />
[http://www.theravive.com marriage counseling]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com medical scrubs]<br />
[http://www.online-druck.biz Online Druckerei]<br />
[http://www.nobelcom.com Phone Cards]<br />
[http://www.gopromotional.com Promotional Clothing]<br />
[http://www.rulearts.com RuleArts]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com scrubs]<br />
[http://www.ticketmomma.com/ TicketMomma.com]<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
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== {{{contact-head|Contact}}} ==<br />
{{{contact-intro|For questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, please send an email to benefactors{{@}}wikimedia.org}}}.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Public relations]]<br />
[[Category:{{#language:{{{lang|en}}}}}]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Benefactors&diff=70590Template:Benefactors2011-10-13T18:44:29Z<p>Jvandavier: added Indigo Trust</p>
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__NOTOC__<br />
{{{intro|As a nonprofit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation relies on the expertise and generosity of thousands of people all around the world. This page reflects gifts received after May 1, 2009.}}}<br />
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== {{{foundation-head|Foundation support}}} ==<br />
<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.omidyar.com Omidyar Network] ([[Press releases/Omidyar Network Grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation ([[Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_$2_million_grant_from_Google|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Stanton Foundation ([[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|{{{press|Press release}}}]]) <br />
[http://www.hewlett.org The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] ([[Press releases/Hewlett Foundation grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.fordfound.org/ Ford Foundation] ([[Press releases/Wikimedia Ford Foundation Grant July 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk Arcadia]<br />
[http://rlounsbery.org Richard Lounsbery Foundation]<br />
[http://www.soros.org Open Society Institute]<br />
[http://http://indigotrust.wordpress.com Indigo Trust]<br />
}}<br />
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== {{{major-head|Major benefactors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (5)<br />
Alan Bauer<br />
The David and Jamie Cummings Family<br />
The Hellman Family Foundation<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{patrons-head|Patrons}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (3)<br />
Milonja Bjelic<br />
The Harnisch Family Foundation<br />
Ryan and Lisa McCorvie <br />
Christopher Ruddy<br />
Ron Unz <br />
Two Sigma Investments, LLC<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{leading-head|Leading donors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (23)<br />
Advanced Risk Sciences, Tel Aviv <br />
Michael & Xochi Birch<br />
Bohemian Foundation<br />
Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu<br />
Sandy and Linda Gallanter<br />
Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation <br />
Edward Tufte<br />
Mark Heising and Liz Simons<br />
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte<br />
J. Willis Jarvis<br />
Nora Roberts Foundation<br />
[http://www.mkf.org Mitchell Kapor Foundation]<br />
Charles R. Morcom<br />
Elon Musk<br />
Tyko Strassen<br />
James and Angela Thompson Foundation<br />
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv<br />
{{{BITF|The Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation}}}<br />
}}<br />
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== {{{sustaining-head|Sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (194)<br />
Adam Fila<br />
Alex Dingle<br />
Alex Poon<br />
Anna Scott<br />
Autumn & Devrim<br />
Bajamonte Giacomo<br />
Bernhard Friess<br />
Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey<br />
BOKE (Proofreader77)<br />
Brian McInnis<br />
Christopher J. Lingle<br />
Dalibor Antonic<br />
Deanne Weir, Sydney, Australia<br />
Diana Pirri<br />
Diane & Michael Culbert<br />
Don Husby<br />
Don and Jill Knuth<br />
Douglas Ferguson<br />
Douglas Tilden<br />
Franz Heinsen<br />
Fred Hipp<br />
Gabe Newell<br />
Greg and Liz Lutz<br />
Heather Bendler<br />
Hiromasa Nagase<br />
Hodson and Ludmila Thornber<br />
The IEEE Electron Devices Society<br />
In honor of Victoria Anne Meszaros<br />
In memory of Seymour Durst<br />
Jacob Albrecht<br />
Jacob Malmberg<br />
Jason D. Simar<br />
Jeffrey Lamkin<br />
Jeffrey N. Dauber<br />
Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit<br />
Joel Spiegel<br />
John G. Dove, Arlington, Massachusetts<br />
Johnson Watts<br />
Joichi Ito<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
Jonathan Laventhol<br />
Joseph Willis<br />
Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family<br />
Julien Basch<br />
Koodawg<br />
Laurelle Wildman<br />
Laurence G. Allen, NYPPEX Holdings<br />
Lincoln Cassady<br />
Linda Lee<br />
Luke Skywalker<br />
Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher<br />
Marc Forand<br />
Marcus Wittke<br />
Mark E. Merritt and Lorena Barrientos<br />
Mathew Donovan<br />
Muhammad Dawood<br />
Murtada Elkhalifa<br />
Nicole Lieger<br />
Philip Ardery<br />
PogoTribe<br />
Reese Schonfeld<br />
Roland Digital Group Africa<br />
Scandinavian software engineer<br />
Stephen Marcus<br />
Steve Kass<br />
Steve and Marty Schlossstein, Princeton, New Jersey<br />
Susan Woodward<br />
Takashi Kousaka<br />
Tetsuya Isozaki<br />
Tetsuya Nagase<br />
Thomas Edward Myers<br />
Thomas Ruth<br />
Travis and Donna Knight<br />
Wayne B. Hayes<br />
[[Staff|Wikimedia Foundation Staff]]<br />
[http://dampes8n.com/ Will Brall]<br />
William Benter<br />
Yuma Nakaki<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{donations-head|Donations of goods and services}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.comscore.com comScore]<br />
[http://www.evoswitch.com EvoSwitch]<br />
[http://www.init7.net Init7]<br />
[http://www.teliasoneraic.com TeliaSonera International Carrier]<br />
[http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet] <br />
[http://www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb]<br />
[http://nostarch.com/ No Starch Press]<br />
[http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems] <br />
[http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{special-head|Special thanks to our chapters}}} ==<br />
{{{special-intro|The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:}}}<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[[Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg|22px|border]] '''{{{ch|Switzerland}}}: [[Wikimedia CH]]'''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|22px|border|Italy]] '''{{{it|Italia}}}: [[Wikimedia Italia]]'''<br />
}}<br />
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== {{{corporate-head|Corporate sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancecare.com aarp dental insurance for seniors]<br />
[http://www.vitavalida.de/ Abnehmen und Diät]<br />
[http://www.vimo.com Affordable Health Insurance]<br />
[http://www.avago.com.au Avago]<br />
[http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/ Balance Transfer Credit Cards]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/memorial-plaques Bronze Memorial Plaques for Buildings]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/cast-bronze-plaques Cast Bronze Plaques and Markers]<br />
[http://www.clicktime.com ClickTime Web Timesheet]<br />
[http://www.shop.cookmax.de Cookmax Gastronomiebedarf]<br />
[http://www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au Cookware]<br />
[http://www.couponloco.com Coupon Loco Promo Codes]<br />
[http://www.couponcommando.com/ CouponCommando.com]<br />
[http://www.customessaymeister.com/ Customessaymeister.com]<br />
[http://www.cybermonday2010.com Cyber Monday]<br />
[http://www.outdoorkidz.de/ finkid Kinderkleidung]<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.freeshipping.org Free Shipping Codes]<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancetips.com full coverage dental insurance]<br />
[http://www.herpesalliance.org Herpes Alliance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/custom-office-signs Impact Office Signs - Custom Lobby Signage Company]<br />
[http://www.ratedetective.com.au/insurance/income-protection Income Protection Insurance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com Impact Custom Business Signs]<br />
[http://www.theravive.com marriage counseling]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com medical scrubs]<br />
[http://www.online-druck.biz Online Druckerei]<br />
[http://www.nobelcom.com Phone Cards]<br />
[http://www.gopromotional.com Promotional Clothing]<br />
[http://www.rulearts.com RuleArts]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com scrubs]<br />
[http://www.ticketmomma.com/ TicketMomma.com]<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{contact-head|Contact}}} ==<br />
{{{contact-intro|For questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, please send an email to benefactors{{@}}wikimedia.org}}}.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Public relations]]<br />
[[Category:{{#language:{{{lang|en}}}}}]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Benefactors&diff=69382Template:Benefactors2011-09-23T22:40:31Z<p>Jvandavier: /* {{{corporate-head|Corporate sustaining donors}}} */ removed expired link</p>
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__NOTOC__<br />
{{{intro|As a nonprofit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation relies on the expertise and generosity of thousands of people all around the world. This page reflects gifts received after May 1, 2009.}}}<br />
<br />
== {{{foundation-head|Foundation support}}} ==<br />
<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.omidyar.com Omidyar Network] ([[Press releases/Omidyar Network Grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation ([[Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_$2_million_grant_from_Google|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
Stanton Foundation ([[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|{{{press|Press release}}}]]) <br />
[http://www.hewlett.org The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] ([[Press releases/Hewlett Foundation grant August 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.fordfound.org/ Ford Foundation] ([[Press releases/Wikimedia Ford Foundation Grant July 2009|{{{press|Press release}}}]])<br />
[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk Arcadia]<br />
[http://rlounsbery.org Richard Lounsbery Foundation]<br />
[http://www.soros.org Open Society Institute]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{major-head|Major benefactors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (5)<br />
Alan Bauer<br />
The David and Jamie Cummings Family<br />
The Hellman Family Foundation<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{patrons-head|Patrons}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (3)<br />
Milonja Bjelic<br />
The Harnisch Family Foundation<br />
Ryan and Lisa McCorvie <br />
Christopher Ruddy<br />
Ron Unz <br />
Two Sigma Investments, LLC<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{leading-head|Leading donors}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (23)<br />
Advanced Risk Sciences, Tel Aviv <br />
Michael & Xochi Birch<br />
Bohemian Foundation<br />
Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu<br />
Sandy and Linda Gallanter<br />
Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation <br />
Edward Tufte<br />
Mark Heising and Liz Simons<br />
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte<br />
J. Willis Jarvis<br />
Nora Roberts Foundation<br />
[http://www.mkf.org Mitchell Kapor Foundation]<br />
Charles R. Morcom<br />
Elon Musk<br />
Tyko Strassen<br />
James and Angela Thompson Foundation<br />
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv<br />
{{{BITF|The Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation}}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{sustaining-head|Sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
{{{anon|Anonymous}}} (194)<br />
Adam Fila<br />
Alex Dingle<br />
Alex Poon<br />
Anna Scott<br />
Autumn & Devrim<br />
Bajamonte Giacomo<br />
Bernhard Friess<br />
Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey<br />
BOKE (Proofreader77)<br />
Brian McInnis<br />
Christopher J. Lingle<br />
Dalibor Antonic<br />
Deanne Weir, Sydney, Australia<br />
Diana Pirri<br />
Diane & Michael Culbert<br />
Don Husby<br />
Don and Jill Knuth<br />
Douglas Ferguson<br />
Douglas Tilden<br />
Franz Heinsen<br />
Fred Hipp<br />
Gabe Newell<br />
Greg and Liz Lutz<br />
Heather Bendler<br />
Hiromasa Nagase<br />
Hodson and Ludmila Thornber<br />
The IEEE Electron Devices Society<br />
In honor of Victoria Anne Meszaros<br />
In memory of Seymour Durst<br />
Jacob Albrecht<br />
Jacob Malmberg<br />
Jason D. Simar<br />
Jeffrey Lamkin<br />
Jeffrey N. Dauber<br />
Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit<br />
Joel Spiegel<br />
John G. Dove, Arlington, Massachusetts<br />
Johnson Watts<br />
Joichi Ito<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
Jonathan Laventhol<br />
Joseph Willis<br />
Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family<br />
Julien Basch<br />
Koodawg<br />
Laurelle Wildman<br />
Laurence G. Allen, NYPPEX Holdings<br />
Lincoln Cassady<br />
Linda Lee<br />
Luke Skywalker<br />
Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher<br />
Marc Forand<br />
Marcus Wittke<br />
Mark E. Merritt and Lorena Barrientos<br />
Mathew Donovan<br />
Muhammad Dawood<br />
Murtada Elkhalifa<br />
Nicole Lieger<br />
Philip Ardery<br />
PogoTribe<br />
Reese Schonfeld<br />
Roland Digital Group Africa<br />
Scandinavian software engineer<br />
Stephen Marcus<br />
Steve Kass<br />
Steve and Marty Schlossstein, Princeton, New Jersey<br />
Susan Woodward<br />
Takashi Kousaka<br />
Tetsuya Isozaki<br />
Tetsuya Nagase<br />
Thomas Edward Myers<br />
Thomas Ruth<br />
Travis and Donna Knight<br />
Wayne B. Hayes<br />
[[Staff|Wikimedia Foundation Staff]]<br />
William Benter<br />
Yuma Nakaki<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{donations-head|Donations of goods and services}}} ==<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.comscore.com comScore]<br />
[http://www.evoswitch.com EvoSwitch]<br />
[http://www.init7.net Init7]<br />
[http://www.teliasoneraic.com TeliaSonera International Carrier]<br />
[http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet] <br />
[http://www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb]<br />
[http://nostarch.com/ No Starch Press]<br />
[http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems] <br />
[http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== {{{special-head|Special thanks to our chapters}}} ==<br />
{{{special-intro|The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:}}}<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[[Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg|22px|border]] '''{{{ch|Switzerland}}}: [[Wikimedia CH]]'''<br />
[[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|22px|border|Italy]] '''{{{it|Italia}}}: [[Wikimedia Italia]]'''<br />
}}<br />
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== {{{corporate-head|Corporate sustaining donors}}} ==<br />
{| style="width:80%;"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancecare.com aarp dental insurance for seniors]<br />
[http://www.vitavalida.de/ Abnehmen und Diät]<br />
[http://www.vimo.com Affordable Health Insurance]<br />
[http://www.avago.com.au Avago]<br />
[http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/ Balance Transfer Credit Cards]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/memorial-plaques Bronze Memorial Plaques for Buildings]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/cast-bronze-plaques Cast Bronze Plaques and Markers]<br />
[http://www.clicktime.com ClickTime Web Timesheet]<br />
[http://www.shop.cookmax.de Cookmax Gastronomiebedarf]<br />
[http://www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au Cookware]<br />
[http://www.couponloco.com Coupon Loco Promo Codes]<br />
[http://www.couponcommando.com/ CouponCommando.com]<br />
[http://www.customessaymeister.com/ Customessaymeister.com]<br />
[http://www.cybermonday2010.com Cyber Monday]<br />
[http://www.outdoorkidz.de/ finkid Kinderkleidung]<br />
}}<br />
|<br />
{{#tag:poem|<br />
[http://www.freeshipping.org Free Shipping Codes]<br />
[http://www.dentalinsurancetips.com full coverage dental insurance]<br />
[http://www.herpesalliance.org Herpes Alliance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com/custom-office-signs Impact Office Signs - Custom Lobby Signage Company]<br />
[http://www.ratedetective.com.au/insurance/income-protection Income Protection Insurance]<br />
[http://www.impactsigns.com Impact Custom Business Signs]<br />
[http://www.theravive.com marriage counseling]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com medical scrubs]<br />
[http://www.online-druck.biz Online Druckerei]<br />
[http://www.nobelcom.com Phone Cards]<br />
[http://www.gopromotional.com Promotional Clothing]<br />
[http://www.rulearts.com RuleArts]<br />
[http://www.blueskyscrubs.com scrubs]<br />
[http://www.ticketmomma.com/ TicketMomma.com]<br />
}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== {{{contact-head|Contact}}} ==<br />
{{{contact-intro|For questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, please send an email to benefactors{{@}}wikimedia.org}}}.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Public relations]]<br />
[[Category:{{#language:{{{lang|en}}}}}]]</div>Jvandavierhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=FAQ/it&diff=69379FAQ/it2011-09-23T21:00:34Z<p>Jvandavier: /* A quale indirizzo posso inviare documenti, lettere o altro materiale alla Wikimedia Foundation? */ updated lockbox information</p>
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<div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;" id="top">Wikimedia Foundation - FAQ 2010</span><br/><br />
<!-- <span style="font-size: 12pt;" id="top">Last revision: November 2010</span> --></div><br/><br />
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=== Dove vanno a finire i miei soldi? ===<br />
[[File:Wmf sdtpa servers 2009-01-20 20.jpg|thumb|200px|Server della Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
La tua donazione verrà fatta a Wikimedia Italia: un'associazione di promozione sociale italiana e senza scopo di lucro che è la ''corrispondente italiana ufficiale'' della Wikimedia Foundation. La metà di quanto hai donato sosterrà Wikimedia Italia che si occupa di sostenere e diffondere la cultura libera in Italia, l'altra metà viene donata alla Wikimedia Foundation, la fondazione americana senza scopo di lucro che sostiene Wikipedia e altri progetti associati.<br />
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I soldi ricevuti dalla Wikimedia Foundation servono per stipendi e tecnologia. Anche se Wikipedia, e i suoi progetti associati, è uno dei cinque siti web più visitati al mondo, l'organico della WMF conta solo 54 persone. Dai un'occhiata allo [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff staff] della Wikimedia Foundation. Circa la metà si occupa della parte tecnica, un piccolo team sostiene i contatti con il pubblico e le attività dei volontari, e la restante parte lavora nell'ambito della raccolta fondi e dell'amministrazione. Inoltre il tuo contributo aiuta a pagare le spese dell'infrastruttura tecnologica (server e banda) che permette a Wikipedia di mantenersi operativa e di evolversi.<br />
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Wikimedia Italia invece si occupa di fare informazione su Wikipedia e gli altri progetti e di diffondere la cultura libera: esempi di questi utilizzi sono il [http://libertadigitali.org/ Festival delle Libertà Digitali] e le WikiGuide, delle videoguide su come usare Wikipedia e gli altri progetti (guarda la [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/WikiGuida_Wikipedia WikiGuida su Wikipedia] e quella su [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/WikiGuida_Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons])<br />
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[[#top|Torna su]] &ndash; [[WMFJA1/{{#ifexist:WMFJA1/{{SUBPAGENAME}}|{{SUBPAGENAME}}|it}}#newtop|Dona adesso]]<br />
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=== In poche parole, cos'è Wikipedia?===<br />
Wikipedia è la più grande enciclopedia del mondo e la più popolare. È diffusa online, gratuita, e senza pubblicità. Wikipedia contiene più di 16 milioni di voci scritte da volontari in più di 265 lingue, ed è visitata da più di 388 milioni di persone ogni mese; questo la rende il quinto sito più popolare in tutto il mondo. È un'opera collaborativa, che è stata ampliata e modificata da milioni di persone negli ultimi 9 anni: chiunque può modificarla, in ogni momento. Wikipedia è la più ampia raccolta di conoscenza nella storia dell'uomo e le persone che la sostengono sono unite dall'amore per la conoscenza, dalla loro curiosità intellettuale, e dalla loro consapevolezza che sono molte di più le cose che sappiamo tutti insieme di quelle che può sapere una persona qualsiasi da sola.<br />
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[[#top|Torna su]] &ndash; [[WMFJA1/{{#ifexist:WMFJA1/{{SUBPAGENAME}}|{{SUBPAGENAME}}|it}}#newtop|Dona adesso]]<br />
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=== Cos'è la Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
'''Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.''' è un'organizzazione che ha dato vita a vari [[Our projects|progetti free-content]], il più celebre dei quali è Wikipedia, la pluripremiata enciclopedia online. Jimmy Wales ha fondato Wikipedia nel gennaio 2001 e ha creato la Wikimedia Foundation nel giugno 2003. Sin dall'inizio '''esistiamo per una sola ragione: la condivisione libera e gratuita della conoscenza. Non vendiamo informazioni e non accettiamo pubblicità. Sono le vostre donazioni a rendere possibile il nostro lavoro.''' Portiamo il contenuto culturale di questi progetti alla gente in tutti i modi possibili. In particolare ci preoccupiamo di aiutare le comunità svantaggiate e che dispongono di limitate possibilità di connessione ad avere accesso al sapere libero e a contribuire ad esso.<br />
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Abbiamo più di 400 server, usati per i nostri progetti, oltre ai domini web a loro associati e ad alcuni marchi registrati. Sosteniamo lo sviluppo di software strategico per i progetti e di strumenti correlati sulla piattaforma MediaWiki, software che permette a un maggior numero di persone di partecipare e alla comunità di volontari di lavorare meglio. Tra questi strumenti alcuni sono studiati specificamente per assicurarci una maggiore qualità. Sviluppiamo risorse per l'apprendimento, sosteniamo laboratori e ci sforziamo di inventare nuovi modi per coinvolgere nuovi contributori e far crescere Wikimedia come un movimento internazionale per la conoscenza libera.<br />
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In tutto questo siamo aiutati dai [[local chapters|capitoli locali]] che sono stati organizzati in molti paesi.<br />
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=== Cos'è Wikimedia Italia? ===<br />
[[File:WMI_Bologna_2010_9734.JPG|thumb|250px|Il direttivo di Wikimedia Italia eletto nel 2010]]<br />
''Wikimedia Italia'' – ''Associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera'' è una [[:it: associazione di promozione sociale|associazione di promozione sociale]], attiva dal 2005 nell'ambito dell<nowiki>'</nowiki>''open culture''.<br />
L'associazione (informalmente nota come ''WMI'') è la [[Wikimedia Italia|corrispondente italiana ufficiale]] della [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Pagina_Principale Wikimedia Foundation, Inc], all'interno della [[Wikimedia chapters|rete di capitoli locali]] (chapter) che nei rispettivi paesi hanno il compito di promuovere i [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Progetti WMF progetti] gestiti dalla Wikimedia Foundation (su cui [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/10_cose_da_sapere#Wikimedia_Italia_NON_gestisce_Wikipedia|non hanno alcun controllo]) e la cultura libera.<br />
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[[File:WikimediaItaliaCanino2005_Gruppo.jpg|thumb|250px|I 18 fondatori di Wikimedia Italia]]<br />
È stata costituita il 17 giugno 2005 presso lo studio notarile del Notaio Adriano Castaldi di Canino da 18 soci fondatori. Il giorno successivo presso Valentano si è tenuta la prima assemblea dei soci, che hanno ratificato all'unanimità i componenti del Consiglio Direttivo e delineato le linee guida delle future attività dell'Associazione.<br />
Dal 30 novembre 2009, è [[w:it:Associazione di promozione sociale|associazione di promozione sociale]] (APS) iscritta (come n. 12) al registro della provincia di Monza e Brianza, dove ha sede. <br />
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''Wikimedia Italia'' persegue esclusivamente finalità di solidarietà sociale nel campo della promozione della cultura. L'Associazione ha per obiettivo di contribuire attivamente a diffusione, miglioramento e avanzamento del sapere e della cultura promuovendo la produzione, raccolta e diffusione gratuita di contenuti liberi (Open Content) per incentivare le possibilità di accesso alla conoscenza e alla formazione. Sono definiti "contenuti liberi" nel senso inteso dall'associazione tutte le opere che sono state contrassegnate dai loro autori con una licenza che ne permetta l'elaborazione e/o la diffusione gratuita. In aggiunta a ciò sarà approfondita anche la conoscenza e la consapevolezza delle questioni sociali e filosofiche correlate. <br />
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=== Dove posso trovare altre informazioni finanziarie? ===<br />
;Wikimedia Foundation<br />
[[Image:Thumbnail20082010WMFAR.jpg|right|200px|link=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf|Relazione finanziaria annuale della Wikimedia Foundation, anno 2008-2009]]<br />
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La "Relazione Annuale della Wikimedia Foundation 2008-2009" riguarda il precedente anno fiscale (dal 1 Luglio 2008 al 30 Giugno 2009) con una previsione per l'anno successivo. Si tratta della seconda relazione annuale della Wikimedia Foundation. La relazione annuale è un compendio dei finanziamenti ricevuti dall'organizzazione, delle attività programmate, dei progressi raggiunti e delle cose realizzate.<br />
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Tra i fatti più significativi:<br />
* Lancio dell'iniziativa sull'usabilità di Wikimedia<br />
* Wikimedia entra a far parte di [[w:it:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]]<br />
* La [http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page/it&uselang=it conferenza mondiale di Wikimedia ad Alessandria d'Egitto]<br />
* Inizia il processo di pianificazione della open strategy di Wikimedia<br />
* Buoni risultati della raccolta fondi e conseguente aumento della struttura di base.<br />
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Anche Wikimedia Italia pubblica da sempre sul suo sito i propri bilanci annuali.<br />
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* '''Scarica la Relazione Annuale della Wikimedia Foundation per l'anno 2008-2009''': '''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf Versione PDF (2.0 MB)]'''<br />
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* '''[http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Bilanci Leggi i bilanci di Wikimedia Italia]'''<br />
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=== La Wikimedia Foundation è un'organizzazione non-profit? ===<br />
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Sì. Wikimedia Foundation è una organizzazione non-profit 501(c)(3) fiscalmente esente, che ha i propri uffici a San Francisco, California, USA. Si possono visionare la [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:501%28c%293_Letter.png lettera di esenzione dalle tasse] e i documenti riguardanti i [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports resoconti finanziari e i dati annuali].<br />
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=== Wikimedia Italia è un'organizzazione non-profit? ===<br />
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Sì, anche Wikimedia Italia è un'organizzazione non-profit: è una Associazione di Promozione Sociale iscritta, come previsto dalla legge italiana, al registro provinciale delle APS della provincia di Monza e Brianza. <br />
Le donazioni fatte a Wikimedia Italia sono quindi deducibili fiscalmente e Wikimedia Italia può ricevere il ''[http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Cinque_per_mille cinque per mille]''.<br />
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=== Perché dovrei fare una donazione alla Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
Il compito della Wikimedia Foundation è di fornire alle persone di tutto il mondo un semplice accesso alle informazioni - gratuito e senza pubblicità. Siamo un'organizzazione non-profit che per fare tutto ciò ha bisogno del vostro aiuto finanziario. La vostra donazione sostiene direttamente alcuni dei più popolari progetti di riferimento nel mondo, progetti realizzati in collaborazione dagli utenti, inclusa Wikipedia, uno dei cinque siti web più cliccati nonché la più vasta enciclopedia mai scritta nella storia dell'uomo.<br />
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=== Quali sono i vostri progetti? Quali i vostri obiettivi? ===<br />
[[File:2010-07-11-gdansk-by-RalfR-183.JPG|thumb|300px|Incontro dei Wikimediani in Polonia, 2010]]<br />
Il fondatore dell'organizzazione, '''Jimmy Wales''' ha detto: "''Immaginate un mondo in cui ogni singolo essere umano può liberamente condividere tutte le sue conoscenze.''" Questo è ciò che stiamo facendo, e abbiamo bisogno del tuo aiuto per riuscirci. <br />
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Ogni mese, più di 388 milioni di persone in tutto il mondo usano Wikipedia. È disponibile in rete, per telefonia mobile, su DVD, in forma cartacea e in molte altre forme. Desideriamo raggiungere sempre più persone, migliorando continuamente la qualità delle informazioni che forniamo. Per riuscire a farlo stiamo:<br />
*rendendo più semplice il modo di condividere le conoscenze. Recentemente abbiamo lanciato una campagna su vasta scala per migliorare il modo in cui le persone possono aggiungere testi e file multimediali. Su questo puoi trovare maggiori informazioni sul [http://usability.wikimedia.org/ sito del progetto].<br />
*creando e tenendo corsi e dimostrazioni per attrarre un maggior numero di contributori: insegnanti, professori, studenti, fotografi, cineasti, scienziati, bibliotecari, archivisti, curatori di museo, hobbisti ed altri. Stiamo collaborando con una rete di 29 capitoli locali di Wikimedia sparsi in tutto il mondo per riuscire a raggiungere persone di questo tipo e spingerli ad aiutarci a rendere Wikipedia migliore. Maggiori informazioni su questo sul [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/ sito del progetto].<br />
*sviluppando nuove tecnologie e procedure per assicurare una maggiore qualità, pur senza entrare in contrasto con il fondamentale principio della massima apertura di Wikipedia. Tra queste, per chi può essere interessato, un metodo per introdurre delle [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs revisioni verificate] e uno per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter scoprire modifiche potenzialmente problematiche].<br />
*consultandoci con la nostra comunità globale di contributori, con esperti, volontari e intellettuali di tutto il mondo per sviluppare strategie innovative per riuscire a raggiungere sempre più persone, per ottenere contributi di qualità sempre maggiore e per aumentare il numero dei nostri volontari. Maggiori informazioni su questo progetto quinquennale si trovano sul [http://strategy.wikimedia.org/ sito del progetto].<br />
*costruendo un consistente database di statistiche per aiutare il lavoro del movimento. Vedi il nostro [http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ rapporto mensile] e il nostro [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ portale delle statistiche].<br />
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Inoltre, è un nostro obiettivo proteggere il lavoro che già è stato fatto da tempo: ridurre il rischio che un incidente o un problema tecnico possano cancellare parti del nostro lavoro, assicurandoci che venga regolarmente copiato in luoghi fisici diversi. Non siamo un'organizzazione nata per raggiungere il successo in fretta e poi sparire nel giro di due anni: ci poniamo obiettivi a lungo termine e ci proponiamo di durare nel tempo.<br />
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=== Come raggiungete un equilibrio tra il mantenere Wikipedia aperta e il renderla più affidabile?===<br />
Noi crediamo che una maggiore partecipazione sia il modo per rendere Wikipedia migliore. Allo stesso tempo dobbiamo mantenere l'[[w:en:Wikipedia:Editorial_oversight_and_control| elevato livello dei controlli]] che ha reso Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Assessments|rispettata]] da [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/wikipedia-training-scientists-on-wiki-culture/ scienziati], [[Wikipedia:Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Academia|accademici]], [http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/health_care_and_wikipedia.php giornalisti] e benefattori.<br />
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=== Quali progetti sostenete? ===<br />
La Wikimedia Foundation sostiene Wikipedia, un'enciclopedia online e uno dei cinque siti web più visitati del mondo. Dalla creazione di Wikipedia nel gennaio 2001, e con la sua incorporazione nella Wikimedia Foundation nel 2003 la nostra crescita è stata sbalorditiva. Wikipedia in lingua inglese, il nostro primo progetto, si è ingrandita fino a raggiungere oggi più di 3.400.000 voci. La sua versione in lingua italiana, nata qualche anno dopo, ha raggiunto più di 700.000 voci. Tutte le versioni linguistiche di Wikipedia nel complesso contengono più di {{ALL-WP-COUNT}} voci.<br />
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Oltre a Wikipedia, la Wikimedia Foundation sostiene anche:<br />
* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons], un archivio di contenuti multimediali che contiene più di {{COMMONS-MEDIA-COUNT}} di immagini, video e file sonori liberamente utilizzabili.<br />
* [http://it.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks], un progetto per creare libretti e manuali liberi<br />
* [http://it.wiktionary.org/ Wiktionary], un vocabolario e dizionario dei sinonimi e contrari multilingue<br />
* [http://it.wikisource.org/ Wikisource], una biblioteca di documenti e testi non coperti da copyright<br />
* [http://it.wikinews.org/ Wikinews], un sito web di notizie fatto dai cittadini<br />
* [http://it.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversity], una piattaforma di apprendimento interattiva che raccoglie lezioni universitarie<br />
* [http://it.wikiquote.org/ Wikiquote], una raccolta di citazioni celebri<br />
* [http://species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies], un catalogo delle forme di vita presenti sulla Terra.<br />
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Guidiamo e sosteniamo lo sviluppo di [http://mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], il software open source che sta alla base di tutti i nostri siti web. Aiutiamo ad organizzare incontri ed eventi comunitari per incoraggiare le persone a contribuire ai nostri progetti e mettiamo a disposizione [http://static.wikipedia.org/ copie statiche scaricabili] dei progetti e [http://download.wikimedia.org/ archivi] dei contenuti di Wikipedia.<br />
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Maggiori informazioni si possono trovare sulla pagina dei [[our projects|nostri progetti]].<br />
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=== Come viene gestita la Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
[[File:Wikimedia Foundation Staff 04.jpg|thumb|300px|Staff della Wikimedia Foundation nel 2009]]<br />
La Wikimedia Foundation ha uno staff di 54 persone, guidato dal direttore esecutivo Sue Gardner. Lo staff coordina il lavoro delle centinaia di migliaia di volontari che scrivono i contenuti dei progetti Wikimedia. La Wikimedia Foundation funziona anche grazie agli innumerevoli volontari che partecipano all'interno di comitati, come collaboratori interni, o in singole occasioni.<br />
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Il [[Board of Trustees|Consiglio di amministrazione]] esprime la missione e la visione della Wikimedia Foundation, corregge ed aiuta a sviluppare i progetti a lungo termine, funge da supervisore e dà il suo contributo in occasione delle campagne di raccolta fondi. È la massima autorità organizzativa della Wikimedia Foundation come stabilito nel suo statuto. Parte del consiglio viene eletto con il voto della comunità dei contributori dei progetti Wikimedia.<br />
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Abbiamo una sede che si trova a San Francisco, in California (Stati Uniti), dove lavora la maggior parte dei nostri dipendenti. I membri del consiglio e il resto dello staff lavorano a distanza.<br />
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Ci sforziamo di operare nella massima trasparenza e abbiamo reso pubbliche le nostre [[policies|politiche-chiave]] e la nostra [[finance report|situazione finanziaria]].<br />
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===In che modo viene finanziata?===<br />
Wikimedia è finanziata principalmente da donazioni di centinaia di migliaia di volontari, ma anche attraverso borse di studio e donazioni hardware (server e hosting). La Wikimedia Foundation riceve donazioni da oltre 50 paesi in tutto il mondo. L'ammontare medio di ciascuna donazione è abbastanza limitato, ma è il loro numero che ha assicurato il nostro successo. Nel corso di tutto l'anno molte persone contribuiscono ma, una volta all'anno, Wikimedia Foundation organizza una richiesta formale per le donazioni.<br />
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=== Che somma sperate di raccogliere? ===<br />
Il piano finanziario 2010-11 prevede una raccolta di 20,4 milioni di dollari, pari a un incremento del 28% rispetto alla raccolta di 15,9 milioni di dollari del 2009-10.<br />
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Maggiori dettagli sulla nostra situazione economica si possono trovare nelle nostre [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports relazioni finanziarie] (in inglese). Qui il [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/dd/2010-11_Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf programma finanziario 2010-2010] (in inglese, PDF) e qui la relativa [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers pagina di spiegazioni] (in inglese). <br />
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=== Chi altro vi aiuta a raggiungere tale obiettivo? ===<br />
La maggior parte dei nostri fondi arriva da donazioni di singoli, di persone come te. Riceviamo inoltre dei fondi da società e fondazioni private oltre a contributi "in natura" (generalmente beni tecnologici) da alcune grandi aziende. I dettagli si possono trovare alla nostra [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Benefactors/en pagina dei benefattori] (in inglese).<br />
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=== Dove posso apprendere qualcosa delle vostre attività più recenti? ===<br />
Riguardo l'annata fiscale 2008-2009 per favore '''scarica il rapporto Annuale 2008-2009''' '''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf Versione PDF (2.0 MB)] (in inglese)'''<br />
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Per Wikimedia Italia, leggi le '''[http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Categoria:Relazioni_annuali Relazioni annuali 2008 e 2009]'''.<br />
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=== Come faccio a donare? ===<br />
Per fare una donazione visita per favore la nostra [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/it pagina della raccolta fondi]. Puoi donare usando le principali carte di credito (Visa, American Express, Mastercard, Poste Pay, Carta Aura, Carta prepagata Pay Pal), Pay Pal, Moneybookers, bonifico bancario, bollettino postale oppure inviando un assegno alla Foundation. Puoi farlo servendoti della maggior parte delle valute (anche se non proprio tutte) e comunque tutte quelle principali. <br />
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==== Dove posso inviare un assegno? ====<br />
Invia gli assegni a :<br />
<poem>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. <br />
P.O. Box 98204<br />
Washington, DC 20090-8204<br />
USA</poem><br />
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Preferiamo assegni in dollari statunitensi, appoggiati su conti bancari statunitensi. Assegni in valute diverse dal dollaro o provenienti da conti bancari al di fuori degli USA possono richiedere forti commissioni bancarie, riducendo il valore del tuo dono. Se non hai un conto bancario negli USA è preferibile donare con gli altri metodi, indicati poco sopra.<br />
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==== A quale indirizzo posso inviare documenti, lettere o altro materiale alla Wikimedia Foundation?====<br />
Per favore spedisci tutta la corrispondenza alla nostra casella postale certificata:<br />
<poem>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. <br />
P.O. Box 98204<br />
Washington, DC 20090-8204 <br />
USA </poem><br />
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==== Posso fare una donazione in titoli alla Wikimedia Foundation? ====<br />
La Wikimedia Foundation accetta donazioni in titoli. Puoi farlo facendo trasferire i titoli dal tuo mediatore mobiliare dopo avergli fornito il nostro nome, il numero del nostro conto investimenti e il nostro numero DTCC <br />
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<poem>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. <br />
Smith Barney Investment <br />
a/c number 546-0356C-14-782 <br />
DTCC Clearing a/c number #0418</poem><br />
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==== Le mie donazioni sono deducibili dalle tasse? ====<br />
Per favore consulta [[:wmf:Deducibilità_delle_donazioni|questa pagina]] per i dettagli riguardanti la deducibilità dalle tasse.<br />
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==== Se faccio una donazione come posso avere la mia ricevuta da usare a fini fiscali? ====<br />
Se doni con Pay Pal o carta di credito riceverai per e-mail una ricevuta. Se fai un bonifico bancario puoi usare la ricevuta del bonifico a patto di aver specificato nella causale che si tratta di una donazione all'associazione di promozione sociale Wikimedia Italia. Per donazioni via assegno di importo superiore ai 50 dollari riceverai una ricevuta via e-mail, a patto ovviamente che tu ci abbia inviato anche l'indirizzo a cui mandarla. Puoi anche chiederci di mandarti una ricevuta scrivendoci all'indirizzo donazioni{{@}}wikimedia.it (per favore includi nella richiesta il tuo indirizzo, le modalità di pagamento che hai usato per fare la donazione e l'importo della stessa.)<br />
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==== Posso fare una donazione mirata o limitata ad uno scopo ben preciso?====<br />
Se si è specificato che la donazione dovrà essere limitata per un uso specifico, Wikimedia provvederà a soddisfare la richiesta o altrimenti a restituire il denaro. Prima di decidere, considera che le donazioni senza restrizioni sono molto più utili. Ogni restrizione impone costi amministrativi e costi di progettazione, aumentando la complessità organizzativa interna.<br />
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==== Esiste una donazione minima? ====<br />
No, non c'è una donazione minima. Riceviamo donazioni da parte di persone che non hanno molti soldi e siamo davvero molto grati a questi donatori. Sinceramente, se la donazione per te ha un significato, allora lo ha anche per noi. Tuttavia dobbiamo avvisare che a causa dei costi delle transazioni e commissioni bancarie, donazioni davvero molto piccole rischiano di essere donazioni fatte a banche e società finanziarie più che a noi. Per fare un esempio, se doni un euro con Pay Pal, a noi arrivano in effetti 62 centesimi. <br />
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=== Come posso fare per aiutarvi a far girare la voce? ===<br />
Passa la voce in tutti i modi che puoi! Parla con i tuoi amici e i tuoi familiari. Spiega loro cosa rappresenta Wikipedia per te. Chiedi loro se la usano e, se è così, che cosa significhi per loro. Aggiungi questa frase in calce a tutte le tue mail.<br />
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<tt> Stiamo creando la più grande raccolta di conoscenza condivisa della storia. Aiutaci a proteggere Wikipedia. Dona adesso: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/it</tt><br />
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=== Qual è la vostra politica riguardo al trattamento dei dati personali dei donatori? ===<br />
Prendiamo molto seriamente il problema di proteggere il diritto alla privacy dei nostri donatori. Per tutti i dettagli per favore leggi [[:wmf:Trattamento_dei_dati_personali_dei_donatori|l'informativa sul trattamento dei dati personali dei donatori]]. In breve, non condivideremo, non venderemo né scambieremo i tuoi dati con nessuno.<br />
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=== Come posso contattare la Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
Consulta la ''[[:wmf:Come_contattarci|pagina dei contatti]]'' per tutti i dettagli.<br />
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=== Dove vanno a finire i miei soldi? ===<br />
[[File:Wmf sdtpa servers 2009-01-20 20.jpg|thumb|200px|Server della Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
La tua donazione verrà fatta a Wikimedia Italia: un'associazione di promozione sociale italiana e senza scopo di lucro che è la ''corrispondente italiana ufficiale'' della Wikimedia Foundation. La metà di quanto hai donato sosterrà Wikimedia Italia che si occupa di sostenere e diffondere la cultura libera in Italia, l'altra metà viene donata alla Wikimedia Foundation, la fondazione americana senza scopo di lucro che sostiene Wikipedia e altri progetti associati.<br />
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I soldi ricevuti dalla Wikimedia Foundation servono per stipendi e tecnologia. Anche se Wikipedia, e i suoi progetti associati, è uno dei cinque siti web più visitati al mondo, l'organico della WMF conta solo 54 persone. Dai un'occhiata allo [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff staff] della Wikimedia Foundation. Circa la metà si occupa della parte tecnica, un piccolo team sostiene i contatti con il pubblico e le attività dei volontari, e la restante parte lavora nell'ambito della raccolta fondi e dell'amministrazione. Inoltre il tuo contributo aiuta a pagare le spese dell'infrastruttura tecnologica (server e banda) che permette a Wikipedia di mantenersi operativa e di evolversi.<br />
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Wikimedia Italia invece si occupa di fare informazione su Wikipedia e gli altri progetti e di diffondere la cultura libera: esempi di questi utilizzi sono il [http://libertadigitali.org/ Festival delle Libertà Digitali] e le WikiGuide, delle videoguide su come usare Wikipedia e gli altri progetti (guarda la [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/WikiGuida_Wikipedia WikiGuida su Wikipedia] e quella su [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/WikiGuida_Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons])<br />
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=== In poche parole, cos'è Wikipedia?===<br />
Wikipedia è la più grande enciclopedia del mondo e la più popolare. È diffusa online, gratuita, e senza pubblicità. Wikipedia contiene più di 16 milioni di voci scritte da volontari in più di 265 lingue, ed è visitata da più di 388 milioni di persone ogni mese; questo la rende il quinto sito più popolare in tutto il mondo. È un'opera collaborativa, che è stata ampliata e modificata da milioni di persone negli ultimi 9 anni: chiunque può modificarla, in ogni momento. Wikipedia è la più ampia raccolta di conoscenza nella storia dell'uomo e le persone che la sostengono sono unite dall'amore per la conoscenza, dalla loro curiosità intellettuale, e dalla loro consapevolezza che sono molte di più le cose che sappiamo tutti insieme di quelle che può sapere una persona qualsiasi da sola.<br />
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=== Cos'è la Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
'''Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.''' è un'organizzazione che ha dato vita a vari [[Our projects|progetti free-content]], il più celebre dei quali è Wikipedia, la pluripremiata enciclopedia online. Jimmy Wales ha fondato Wikipedia nel gennaio 2001 e ha creato la Wikimedia Foundation nel giugno 2003. Sin dall'inizio '''esistiamo per una sola ragione: la condivisione libera e gratuita della conoscenza. Non vendiamo informazioni e non accettiamo pubblicità. Sono le vostre donazioni a rendere possibile il nostro lavoro.''' Portiamo il contenuto culturale di questi progetti alla gente in tutti i modi possibili. In particolare ci preoccupiamo di aiutare le comunità svantaggiate e che dispongono di limitate possibilità di connessione ad avere accesso al sapere libero e a contribuire ad esso.<br />
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Abbiamo più di 400 server, usati per i nostri progetti, oltre ai domini web a loro associati e ad alcuni marchi registrati. Sosteniamo lo sviluppo di software strategico per i progetti e di strumenti correlati sulla piattaforma MediaWiki, software che permette a un maggior numero di persone di partecipare e alla comunità di volontari di lavorare meglio. Tra questi strumenti alcuni sono studiati specificamente per assicurarci una maggiore qualità. Sviluppiamo risorse per l'apprendimento, sosteniamo laboratori e ci sforziamo di inventare nuovi modi per coinvolgere nuovi contributori e far crescere Wikimedia come un movimento internazionale per la conoscenza libera.<br />
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In tutto questo siamo aiutati dai [[local chapters|capitoli locali]] che sono stati organizzati in molti paesi.<br />
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=== Cos'è Wikimedia Italia? ===<br />
[[File:WMI_Bologna_2010_9734.JPG|thumb|250px|Il direttivo di Wikimedia Italia eletto nel 2010]]<br />
''Wikimedia Italia'' – ''Associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera'' è una [[:it: associazione di promozione sociale|associazione di promozione sociale]], attiva dal 2005 nell'ambito dell<nowiki>'</nowiki>''open culture''.<br />
L'associazione (informalmente nota come ''WMI'') è la [[Wikimedia Italia|corrispondente italiana ufficiale]] della [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Pagina_Principale Wikimedia Foundation, Inc], all'interno della [[Wikimedia chapters|rete di capitoli locali]] (chapter) che nei rispettivi paesi hanno il compito di promuovere i [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Progetti WMF progetti] gestiti dalla Wikimedia Foundation (su cui [http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/10_cose_da_sapere#Wikimedia_Italia_NON_gestisce_Wikipedia|non hanno alcun controllo]) e la cultura libera.<br />
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[[File:WikimediaItaliaCanino2005_Gruppo.jpg|thumb|250px|I 18 fondatori di Wikimedia Italia]]<br />
È stata costituita il 17 giugno 2005 presso lo studio notarile del Notaio Adriano Castaldi di Canino da 18 soci fondatori. Il giorno successivo presso Valentano si è tenuta la prima assemblea dei soci, che hanno ratificato all'unanimità i componenti del Consiglio Direttivo e delineato le linee guida delle future attività dell'Associazione.<br />
Dal 30 novembre 2009, è [[w:it:Associazione di promozione sociale|associazione di promozione sociale]] (APS) iscritta (come n. 12) al registro della provincia di Monza e Brianza, dove ha sede. <br />
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''Wikimedia Italia'' persegue esclusivamente finalità di solidarietà sociale nel campo della promozione della cultura. L'Associazione ha per obiettivo di contribuire attivamente a diffusione, miglioramento e avanzamento del sapere e della cultura promuovendo la produzione, raccolta e diffusione gratuita di contenuti liberi (Open Content) per incentivare le possibilità di accesso alla conoscenza e alla formazione. Sono definiti "contenuti liberi" nel senso inteso dall'associazione tutte le opere che sono state contrassegnate dai loro autori con una licenza che ne permetta l'elaborazione e/o la diffusione gratuita. In aggiunta a ciò sarà approfondita anche la conoscenza e la consapevolezza delle questioni sociali e filosofiche correlate. <br />
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=== Dove posso trovare altre informazioni finanziarie? ===<br />
;Wikimedia Foundation<br />
[[Image:Thumbnail20082010WMFAR.jpg|right|200px|link=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf|Relazione finanziaria annuale della Wikimedia Foundation, anno 2008-2009]]<br />
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La "Relazione Annuale della Wikimedia Foundation 2008-2009" riguarda il precedente anno fiscale (dal 1 Luglio 2008 al 30 Giugno 2009) con una previsione per l'anno successivo. Si tratta della seconda relazione annuale della Wikimedia Foundation. La relazione annuale è un compendio dei finanziamenti ricevuti dall'organizzazione, delle attività programmate, dei progressi raggiunti e delle cose realizzate.<br />
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* Lancio dell'iniziativa sull'usabilità di Wikimedia<br />
* Wikimedia entra a far parte di [[w:it:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]]<br />
* La [http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page/it&uselang=it conferenza mondiale di Wikimedia ad Alessandria d'Egitto]<br />
* Inizia il processo di pianificazione della open strategy di Wikimedia<br />
* Buoni risultati della raccolta fondi e conseguente aumento della struttura di base.<br />
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Anche Wikimedia Italia pubblica da sempre sul suo sito i propri bilanci annuali.<br />
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* '''Scarica la Relazione Annuale della Wikimedia Foundation per l'anno 2008-2009''': '''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf Versione PDF (2.0 MB)]'''<br />
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=== La Wikimedia Foundation è un'organizzazione non-profit? ===<br />
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Sì. Wikimedia Foundation è una organizzazione non-profit 501(c)(3) fiscalmente esente, che ha i propri uffici a San Francisco, California, USA. Si possono visionare la [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:501%28c%293_Letter.png lettera di esenzione dalle tasse] e i documenti riguardanti i [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports resoconti finanziari e i dati annuali].<br />
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=== Wikimedia Italia è un'organizzazione non-profit? ===<br />
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Sì, anche Wikimedia Italia è un'organizzazione non-profit: è una Associazione di Promozione Sociale iscritta, come previsto dalla legge italiana, al registro provinciale delle APS della provincia di Monza e Brianza. <br />
Le donazioni fatte a Wikimedia Italia sono quindi deducibili fiscalmente e Wikimedia Italia può ricevere il ''[http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Cinque_per_mille cinque per mille]''.<br />
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=== Perché dovrei fare una donazione alla Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
Il compito della Wikimedia Foundation è di fornire alle persone di tutto il mondo un semplice accesso alle informazioni - gratuito e senza pubblicità. Siamo un'organizzazione non-profit che per fare tutto ciò ha bisogno del vostro aiuto finanziario. La vostra donazione sostiene direttamente alcuni dei più popolari progetti di riferimento nel mondo, progetti realizzati in collaborazione dagli utenti, inclusa Wikipedia, uno dei cinque siti web più cliccati nonché la più vasta enciclopedia mai scritta nella storia dell'uomo.<br />
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=== Quali sono i vostri progetti? Quali i vostri obiettivi? ===<br />
[[File:2010-07-11-gdansk-by-RalfR-183.JPG|thumb|300px|Incontro dei Wikimediani in Polonia, 2010]]<br />
Il fondatore dell'organizzazione, '''Jimmy Wales''' ha detto: "''Immaginate un mondo in cui ogni singolo essere umano può liberamente condividere tutte le sue conoscenze.''" Questo è ciò che stiamo facendo, e abbiamo bisogno del tuo aiuto per riuscirci. <br />
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Ogni mese, più di 388 milioni di persone in tutto il mondo usano Wikipedia. È disponibile in rete, per telefonia mobile, su DVD, in forma cartacea e in molte altre forme. Desideriamo raggiungere sempre più persone, migliorando continuamente la qualità delle informazioni che forniamo. Per riuscire a farlo stiamo:<br />
*rendendo più semplice il modo di condividere le conoscenze. Recentemente abbiamo lanciato una campagna su vasta scala per migliorare il modo in cui le persone possono aggiungere testi e file multimediali. Su questo puoi trovare maggiori informazioni sul [http://usability.wikimedia.org/ sito del progetto].<br />
*creando e tenendo corsi e dimostrazioni per attrarre un maggior numero di contributori: insegnanti, professori, studenti, fotografi, cineasti, scienziati, bibliotecari, archivisti, curatori di museo, hobbisti ed altri. Stiamo collaborando con una rete di 29 capitoli locali di Wikimedia sparsi in tutto il mondo per riuscire a raggiungere persone di questo tipo e spingerli ad aiutarci a rendere Wikipedia migliore. Maggiori informazioni su questo sul [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/ sito del progetto].<br />
*sviluppando nuove tecnologie e procedure per assicurare una maggiore qualità, pur senza entrare in contrasto con il fondamentale principio della massima apertura di Wikipedia. Tra queste, per chi può essere interessato, un metodo per introdurre delle [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs revisioni verificate] e uno per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter scoprire modifiche potenzialmente problematiche].<br />
*consultandoci con la nostra comunità globale di contributori, con esperti, volontari e intellettuali di tutto il mondo per sviluppare strategie innovative per riuscire a raggiungere sempre più persone, per ottenere contributi di qualità sempre maggiore e per aumentare il numero dei nostri volontari. Maggiori informazioni su questo progetto quinquennale si trovano sul [http://strategy.wikimedia.org/ sito del progetto].<br />
*costruendo un consistente database di statistiche per aiutare il lavoro del movimento. Vedi il nostro [http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ rapporto mensile] e il nostro [http://stats.wikimedia.org/ portale delle statistiche].<br />
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Inoltre, è un nostro obiettivo proteggere il lavoro che già è stato fatto da tempo: ridurre il rischio che un incidente o un problema tecnico possano cancellare parti del nostro lavoro, assicurandoci che venga regolarmente copiato in luoghi fisici diversi. Non siamo un'organizzazione nata per raggiungere il successo in fretta e poi sparire nel giro di due anni: ci poniamo obiettivi a lungo termine e ci proponiamo di durare nel tempo.<br />
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=== Come raggiungete un equilibrio tra il mantenere Wikipedia aperta e il renderla più affidabile?===<br />
Noi crediamo che una maggiore partecipazione sia il modo per rendere Wikipedia migliore. Allo stesso tempo dobbiamo mantenere l'[[w:en:Wikipedia:Editorial_oversight_and_control| elevato livello dei controlli]] che ha reso Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Assessments|rispettata]] da [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/wikipedia-training-scientists-on-wiki-culture/ scienziati], [[Wikipedia:Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Academia|accademici]], [http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/health_care_and_wikipedia.php giornalisti] e benefattori.<br />
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=== Quali progetti sostenete? ===<br />
La Wikimedia Foundation sostiene Wikipedia, un'enciclopedia online e uno dei cinque siti web più visitati del mondo. Dalla creazione di Wikipedia nel gennaio 2001, e con la sua incorporazione nella Wikimedia Foundation nel 2003 la nostra crescita è stata sbalorditiva. Wikipedia in lingua inglese, il nostro primo progetto, si è ingrandita fino a raggiungere oggi più di 3.400.000 voci. La sua versione in lingua italiana, nata qualche anno dopo, ha raggiunto più di 700.000 voci. Tutte le versioni linguistiche di Wikipedia nel complesso contengono più di {{ALL-WP-COUNT}} voci.<br />
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Oltre a Wikipedia, la Wikimedia Foundation sostiene anche:<br />
* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons], un archivio di contenuti multimediali che contiene più di {{COMMONS-MEDIA-COUNT}} di immagini, video e file sonori liberamente utilizzabili.<br />
* [http://it.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks], un progetto per creare libretti e manuali liberi<br />
* [http://it.wiktionary.org/ Wiktionary], un vocabolario e dizionario dei sinonimi e contrari multilingue<br />
* [http://it.wikisource.org/ Wikisource], una biblioteca di documenti e testi non coperti da copyright<br />
* [http://it.wikinews.org/ Wikinews], un sito web di notizie fatto dai cittadini<br />
* [http://it.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversity], una piattaforma di apprendimento interattiva che raccoglie lezioni universitarie<br />
* [http://it.wikiquote.org/ Wikiquote], una raccolta di citazioni celebri<br />
* [http://species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies], un catalogo delle forme di vita presenti sulla Terra.<br />
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Guidiamo e sosteniamo lo sviluppo di [http://mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], il software open source che sta alla base di tutti i nostri siti web. Aiutiamo ad organizzare incontri ed eventi comunitari per incoraggiare le persone a contribuire ai nostri progetti e mettiamo a disposizione [http://static.wikipedia.org/ copie statiche scaricabili] dei progetti e [http://download.wikimedia.org/ archivi] dei contenuti di Wikipedia.<br />
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Maggiori informazioni si possono trovare sulla pagina dei [[our projects|nostri progetti]].<br />
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=== Come viene gestita la Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
[[File:Wikimedia Foundation Staff 04.jpg|thumb|300px|Staff della Wikimedia Foundation nel 2009]]<br />
La Wikimedia Foundation ha uno staff di 54 persone, guidato dal direttore esecutivo Sue Gardner. Lo staff coordina il lavoro delle centinaia di migliaia di volontari che scrivono i contenuti dei progetti Wikimedia. La Wikimedia Foundation funziona anche grazie agli innumerevoli volontari che partecipano all'interno di comitati, come collaboratori interni, o in singole occasioni.<br />
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Il [[Board of Trustees|Consiglio di amministrazione]] esprime la missione e la visione della Wikimedia Foundation, corregge ed aiuta a sviluppare i progetti a lungo termine, funge da supervisore e dà il suo contributo in occasione delle campagne di raccolta fondi. È la massima autorità organizzativa della Wikimedia Foundation come stabilito nel suo statuto. Parte del consiglio viene eletto con il voto della comunità dei contributori dei progetti Wikimedia.<br />
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Abbiamo una sede che si trova a San Francisco, in California (Stati Uniti), dove lavora la maggior parte dei nostri dipendenti. I membri del consiglio e il resto dello staff lavorano a distanza.<br />
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Ci sforziamo di operare nella massima trasparenza e abbiamo reso pubbliche le nostre [[policies|politiche-chiave]] e la nostra [[finance report|situazione finanziaria]].<br />
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===In che modo viene finanziata?===<br />
Wikimedia è finanziata principalmente da donazioni di centinaia di migliaia di volontari, ma anche attraverso borse di studio e donazioni hardware (server e hosting). La Wikimedia Foundation riceve donazioni da oltre 50 paesi in tutto il mondo. L'ammontare medio di ciascuna donazione è abbastanza limitato, ma è il loro numero che ha assicurato il nostro successo. Nel corso di tutto l'anno molte persone contribuiscono ma, una volta all'anno, Wikimedia Foundation organizza una richiesta formale per le donazioni.<br />
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=== Che somma sperate di raccogliere? ===<br />
Il piano finanziario 2010-11 prevede una raccolta di 20,4 milioni di dollari, pari a un incremento del 28% rispetto alla raccolta di 15,9 milioni di dollari del 2009-10.<br />
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Maggiori dettagli sulla nostra situazione economica si possono trovare nelle nostre [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports relazioni finanziarie] (in inglese). Qui il [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/dd/2010-11_Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf programma finanziario 2010-2010] (in inglese, PDF) e qui la relativa [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers pagina di spiegazioni] (in inglese). <br />
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=== Chi altro vi aiuta a raggiungere tale obiettivo? ===<br />
La maggior parte dei nostri fondi arriva da donazioni di singoli, di persone come te. Riceviamo inoltre dei fondi da società e fondazioni private oltre a contributi "in natura" (generalmente beni tecnologici) da alcune grandi aziende. I dettagli si possono trovare alla nostra [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Benefactors/en pagina dei benefattori] (in inglese).<br />
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=== Dove posso apprendere qualcosa delle vostre attività più recenti? ===<br />
Riguardo l'annata fiscale 2008-2009 per favore '''scarica il rapporto Annuale 2008-2009''' '''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf Versione PDF (2.0 MB)] (in inglese)'''<br />
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Per Wikimedia Italia, leggi le '''[http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Categoria:Relazioni_annuali Relazioni annuali 2008 e 2009]'''.<br />
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=== Come faccio a donare? ===<br />
Per fare una donazione visita per favore la nostra [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/it pagina della raccolta fondi]. Puoi donare usando le principali carte di credito (Visa, American Express, Mastercard, Poste Pay, Carta Aura, Carta prepagata Pay Pal), Pay Pal, Moneybookers, bonifico bancario, bollettino postale oppure inviando un assegno alla Foundation. Puoi farlo servendoti della maggior parte delle valute (anche se non proprio tutte) e comunque tutte quelle principali. <br />
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==== Dove posso inviare un assegno? ====<br />
Invia gli assegni a :<br />
<poem>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. <br />
P.O. Box 98204<br />
Washington, DC 20090-8204<br />
USA</poem><br />
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Preferiamo assegni in dollari statunitensi, appoggiati su conti bancari statunitensi. Assegni in valute diverse dal dollaro o provenienti da conti bancari al di fuori degli USA possono richiedere forti commissioni bancarie, riducendo il valore del tuo dono. Se non hai un conto bancario negli USA è preferibile donare con gli altri metodi, indicati poco sopra.<br />
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==== A quale indirizzo posso inviare documenti, lettere o altro materiale alla Wikimedia Foundation?====<br />
Per favore spedisci tutta la corrispondenza alla nostra casella postale certificata:<br />
<poem>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. <br />
P.O. Box 894879 <br />
Los Angeles, CA 90189-4879 <br />
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==== Posso fare una donazione in titoli alla Wikimedia Foundation? ====<br />
La Wikimedia Foundation accetta donazioni in titoli. Puoi farlo facendo trasferire i titoli dal tuo mediatore mobiliare dopo avergli fornito il nostro nome, il numero del nostro conto investimenti e il nostro numero DTCC <br />
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<poem>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. <br />
Smith Barney Investment <br />
a/c number 546-0356C-14-782 <br />
DTCC Clearing a/c number #0418</poem><br />
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==== Le mie donazioni sono deducibili dalle tasse? ====<br />
Per favore consulta [[:wmf:Deducibilità_delle_donazioni|questa pagina]] per i dettagli riguardanti la deducibilità dalle tasse.<br />
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==== Se faccio una donazione come posso avere la mia ricevuta da usare a fini fiscali? ====<br />
Se doni con Pay Pal o carta di credito riceverai per e-mail una ricevuta. Se fai un bonifico bancario puoi usare la ricevuta del bonifico a patto di aver specificato nella causale che si tratta di una donazione all'associazione di promozione sociale Wikimedia Italia. Per donazioni via assegno di importo superiore ai 50 dollari riceverai una ricevuta via e-mail, a patto ovviamente che tu ci abbia inviato anche l'indirizzo a cui mandarla. Puoi anche chiederci di mandarti una ricevuta scrivendoci all'indirizzo donazioni{{@}}wikimedia.it (per favore includi nella richiesta il tuo indirizzo, le modalità di pagamento che hai usato per fare la donazione e l'importo della stessa.)<br />
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==== Posso fare una donazione mirata o limitata ad uno scopo ben preciso?====<br />
Se si è specificato che la donazione dovrà essere limitata per un uso specifico, Wikimedia provvederà a soddisfare la richiesta o altrimenti a restituire il denaro. Prima di decidere, considera che le donazioni senza restrizioni sono molto più utili. Ogni restrizione impone costi amministrativi e costi di progettazione, aumentando la complessità organizzativa interna.<br />
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==== Esiste una donazione minima? ====<br />
No, non c'è una donazione minima. Riceviamo donazioni da parte di persone che non hanno molti soldi e siamo davvero molto grati a questi donatori. Sinceramente, se la donazione per te ha un significato, allora lo ha anche per noi. Tuttavia dobbiamo avvisare che a causa dei costi delle transazioni e commissioni bancarie, donazioni davvero molto piccole rischiano di essere donazioni fatte a banche e società finanziarie più che a noi. Per fare un esempio, se doni un euro con Pay Pal, a noi arrivano in effetti 62 centesimi. <br />
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=== Come posso fare per aiutarvi a far girare la voce? ===<br />
Passa la voce in tutti i modi che puoi! Parla con i tuoi amici e i tuoi familiari. Spiega loro cosa rappresenta Wikipedia per te. Chiedi loro se la usano e, se è così, che cosa significhi per loro. Aggiungi questa frase in calce a tutte le tue mail.<br />
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<tt> Stiamo creando la più grande raccolta di conoscenza condivisa della storia. Aiutaci a proteggere Wikipedia. Dona adesso: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/it</tt><br />
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=== Qual è la vostra politica riguardo al trattamento dei dati personali dei donatori? ===<br />
Prendiamo molto seriamente il problema di proteggere il diritto alla privacy dei nostri donatori. Per tutti i dettagli per favore leggi [[:wmf:Trattamento_dei_dati_personali_dei_donatori|l'informativa sul trattamento dei dati personali dei donatori]]. In breve, non condivideremo, non venderemo né scambieremo i tuoi dati con nessuno.<br />
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=== Come posso contattare la Wikimedia Foundation? ===<br />
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===Matching Gifts===<br />
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Matching Gifts are a great, easy way to double or even triple your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. Many companies support employee philanthropy by offering matching gift programs. By taking advantage of your corporate matching gift program, you can maximize the value of your gift at no additional cost. Please check with your HR department to see if your employer will match your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
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===How does this program work?===<br />
Although programs may vary from company to company, the process is usually very simple:<br />
# Confirm that your company has a matching gifts program and obtain the appropriate Matching Gifts Form<br />
# Complete the form and send it to the Wikimedia Foundation at our physical address:<br />
#::Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br />
#::P.O. Box 98204<br />
#::Washington, DC 20090-8204 USA <br /><br />
#:or email: [mailto:giving@wikimedia.org giving@wikimedia.org]<br />
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===Combined Federal Campaign===<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is on the United States 2011 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Charity List as a national/international independent organization. Our code is: '''61478'''.<br />
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===Organizations that have supported the WMF through the generosity of their employees===<br />
Many people and their employers have already partnered in donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. We are grateful for their support and generosity. If someone has already donated a matching contribution, you can find more information about their matching gifts program here:<br />
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Adobe Systems, Inc.<br/><br />
Aetna Matching Gifts Application<br/><br />
[[Media:AIGMatchingGifts Application.pdf | AIG Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:AmercianExpress.pdf | American Express Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://www.amgen.com/citizenship/staff_involvement.html Amgen Foundation]<br/><br />
Arthur Martin Colonial Brookwood Center<br/><br />
Ball Corporation<br/><br />
[[Media:bankofamerica.pdf | Bank of America Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://barclays.smartchange.com Barclays Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.bd.com/responsibility/community/matching_gifts.asp BD Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<br/><br />
[http://www.bdk.com/citizenship/CommunityGiving.htm Black and Decker Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
BlackRock<br/><br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company<br/><br />
[http://www.ca.com/us/about/content.aspx?cid=142897 CA Together Matching Gifts Programs]<br/><br />
[http://www.capgroup.com/about_us/charitable_programs.html Capital Group Companies]<br/><br />
Cardinal Health Group Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
Carnegie Corporation of New York<br/><br />
[http://www.aboutschwab.com/community/corporate-giving/index.html Charles Schwab Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/chevron?login=regular Chevron Humankind Project]<br/><br />
[http://www.cigna.com/about_us/community/matching_gifts.html CIGNA Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application.pdf | Clorox Company Foundation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Cooper Industries Foundation Matching Gifts Plan<br/><br />
Dell<br/><br />
[[Media:e_bay_mg_form.pdf | eBay Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
El Paso Corporation<br/><br />
Electronic Arts<br/><br />
Employee's Community Fund of the Boeing Company<br/><br />
ETS Cares Campaign<br/><br />
[http://overview.expediainc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=190013&p=employee_involvement Expedia, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
FIM Group<br/><br />
[[Media:Gap Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application.pdf | Gap Foundation Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
Gartner Group, Inc.<br/><br />
[http://www.ge.com/foundation/employee_programs/matching_gifts.jsp GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Giving Tree Fund<br/><br />
[[Media:GoldmanSachsForm.pdf | Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/google Google Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation<br/><br />
[https://www.easymatch.com/hospira Hospira Employee Giving Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:HoughtonMifflinGuidelines&Form.pdf | Houghton Miffling Matching Gifts Guidelines and Application]]<br/><br />
IBM<br/><br />
Intercontinental Hotels Group<br/><br />
[[Media:ISOForm.pdf | ISO Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
ITW Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
JK Group Trustees for Visa International Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
[[Media:JPMCForm.pdf | JP Morgan Chase and Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:JuniperNetworksForm.doc | Juniper Networks Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Lubrizol Foundation <br/><br />
Managed Health Care Associates, Inc.<br/><br />
Map Royalty, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MasterCardForm.doc | MasterCard International, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:MicrosoftForm.pdf | Microsoft Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:MidlandNationalForm.pdf | Midland National Life Insurance Company Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Millipore Foundation<br/><br />
[[Media:MoodysFoundationForm.pdf | Moody's Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Morgan Stanley<br/><br />
Motorola Mobility<br/><br />
Motorola Solutions<br/><br />
MSNBC Matching Gifts Program<br/><br />
[[Media:NikeForm.pdf | Nike, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Noblis, Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:OracleForm.doc | Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:PfizerForm.pdf | Pfizer, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
Portland General Electric Co. Employee Giving Campaign<br/><br />
Quallcomm, Inc.<br/><br />
[https://secure1.easymatch.com/REAL/Content/Login/LoginForm.asp RealNetworks, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Rejuvination, Inc.<br/><br />
Rockefeller Foundation<br/><br />
[https://secure7.easymatch.com/safeco/content/employee/downloads.asp Safeco Insurance Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[http://www.sap.com/usa/about/citizenship/matchinggift/index.epx SAP America, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
Synopsys <br/><br />
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.<br/><br />
Textron Inc.<br/><br />
[[Media:TimeWarnerForm.pdf | Time Warner, Inc. Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[[Media:TycoElectronicsForm.pdf | Tyco Electronics Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=7970 UBS Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[[Media:UnileverForm.pdf | Unilever Matching Gifts Application]]<br/><br />
[http://foundation.verizon.com/employee/matching_gifts.shtml Verizon Communications, Inc. Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://onlineservices.wachovia.com/auth/AuthService?action=presentLogin&logincode=HROnline&url=https%3a//hronline.wachovia.com Wachovia Bank Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
[https://www.givingstation.com/?cid=9776 Yahoo! Matching Gifts Program]<br/><br />
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:P.O. Box 98204<br />
:Washington, DC 20090-8204<br />
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