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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.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 200 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; and Wikisource, a repository for primary source material.
The Wikimedia Quarto
Donations
The primary use of our funds is to purchase the computer equipment needed to support these activities.
The Foundation relies on support from individuals like you. Please consider making a donation today.
The last fundraising drive is summarized here: Fund drives/2004/Q4 (includes complete lists of our donors).
Board meetings
A complete list of notes from board meetings may be seen at meetings.
- Meetings/February 7, 2005
- m:Open Board meeting, November 2004
- m:Fundraising meeting, September 2004
- Wikimedia Board meetings/5 September 2004
A meeting was held in real life during Rotterdam meeting. Notes are not yet available.
Latest news
- Development, February 2005: Tim Starling resigns as Developer Liaison to focus on his studies.
- Benefactors, January 2005: Lounsbery Foundation grants us 40,000 USD. Lost Oasis hosts three of our servers for free in Paris.
- November 2004: Frankfurt, Germany will host the first Wikimedia International Conference: Wikimania 2005 from August 4 to 8, 2005.
- October 2004: French local chapter is founded.
- Benefactors: Beck Foundation offers us a grant 10,000 USD to support the Wikijunior project, producing online and printed readers for the younger generation.
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