Frequently Asked Questions
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the parent organization of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, In Memoriam 9/11 and Nupedia. It is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, USA. Its existence was officially announced by former Bomis CEO and Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales on June 20, 2003.
The goals of the foundation
The goals of the foundation are to maintain and develop open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. In addition to managing the already developed multilingual general encyclopedia Wikipedia, there is a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus named Wiktionary, an encyclopedia of quotations named Wikiquote and a collection of e-book resources aimed specifically toward students (such as textbooks and annotated public domain books) named Wikibooks. The Foundation also manages a memorial collection of articles about the Sept. 11. attacks and the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content). The continued growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent on donations. The Wikimedia Foundation aims to increase revenue by finding alternative means of financing, including grants and sponsorship.
Todo
- Rephrase the content (perhaps make a sub page for the history)
- fix the links
- The new page should explain what the Foundation Wikimedia is about, with in particular links to "projects" supported, links to charter.
- Should be in several languages (go hunt for versions in other languages)
- Organisation of the Foundation
- Board
- Add a page to define current board and how it was elected. Description of each trustee (transparency)
- Meetings
- Reports
- Legal records: bylaws, AoI, Public Record, 501(c)(3), RfS
- By-laws (link to non-pdf version)
- Members
- Committees
- Official positions
- Org chart
- links to finance, budget (which will also be available from membership and donation main pages)
etc...