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==About the Wikimedia Foundation==
The [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]], Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of [[w:en:free content|free]], multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these [[:en:wiki|wiki]]-based projects to the public free of charge. Wikimedia relies on public donations to meet its goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world.
''Read the latest release of the Wikimedia Foundation's newsletter:'''''The [[Wikimedia Quarto|Wikimedia Quarto]]'''▼
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==Our projects==
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], one of the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top
==Resources==▼
The [[m:What we use the money for|primary use of our funds]] is to purchase the [[m:Wikimedia servers/hardware orders|computer equipment]] needed to support these activities.<!-- (see our [[budget/{{CURRENTYEAR}}|{{CURRENTYEAR}} budget]]).-->▼
The Foundation relies on support from individuals like you. Please consider [[fundraising|making a donation]] today.▼
The last fundraising drive is summarized here: [[Fund drives/2005/Q1]] (includes complete lists of our donors).▼
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==The Board==
The Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]] manages the nonprofit and supervise the disposition and solicitation of nonprofit donations. The Board of Trustees are the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., and has the power to direct the activities of the foundation. The Board consists of five directors.
==Board meetings==
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▲The [[m:What we use the money for|primary use of our funds]] is to purchase the [[m:Wikimedia servers/hardware orders|computer equipment]] needed to support these activities.<!-- (see our [[budget/{{CURRENTYEAR}}|{{CURRENTYEAR}} budget]]).-->
▲The Foundation relies on support from individuals like you. Please consider [[fundraising|making a donation]] today.
▲The last fundraising drive is summarized here: [[Fund drives/2005/Q1]] (includes complete lists of our donors).
▲<!--To see how to best help the projects, see [[how you can help]].-->
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▲''Read the latest release of the Wikimedia Foundation's newsletter:'''''The [[Wikimedia Quarto|Wikimedia Quarto]]'''
See [[current events]] for more information.
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<html>I</html>magine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your help for the next three weeks in our Wikimedia fundraising drive.
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