The Foundation manages the [[budget/{{CURRENTYEAR}}|Budget]], which pays for hardware and human resources necessary to the running of the Wikimedia projects.
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And we need your help for the next three weeks in our Wikimedia fundraising drive.
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these 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.
Our projects
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 50 most visited websites in the world. Other online projects include Wiktionary, a multilingual dictionary; Wikibooks, a collection of free content textbooks; Wikiquote, a repository of famous quotes; Wikinews, a free news source; Wikisource, a repository for primary source material; and Wikimedia Commons, a repository for images and sound data.
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.
A complete list of notes from Board meetings may be seen at meetings.
Budget
The Foundation manages the Budget, which pays for hardware and human resources necessary to the running of the Wikimedia projects.