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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.
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.


Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the 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.
Supported by an intense community-driven planning process, in 2010 the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees set "big, 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.


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.
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.

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