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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.
And we need your help. Please support the Wikimedia Foundation by donating today.

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable 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. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.

Wikimedia Strategic Plan

Our strategic priorities:

Stabilize infrastructure
Increase participation
Improve quality
Increase reach
Encourage innovation

Wikimedia Foundation targets for 2015:

Increase the total number of people served to 1 billion
Increase the number of Wikipedia articles we offer to 50 million
Ensure information is high quality by increasing the percentage of material reviewed to be of high or very high quality by 25 percent
Encourage readers to become contributors by increasing the number of total editors who make at least 5 edits per month to 200,000
Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25 percent and increase the percentage of Global South editors to 37 percent

Wikimedia Blog

The latest news and views from the Wikimedia Foundation: Template:Blogbox

Job openings

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See the Job openings page for more information. Follow Wikimedia HR updates on Twitter or identi.ca.

2010–11 Annual Report

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Read the 2010–11
Wikimedia Foundation
Annual Report

2011–12 Annual Plan

Read the Foundation's 2011–12 Annual financial plan, which also includes strategic targets, activities, and staffing overview.

Latest reports

Wikimedia Foundation report and Wikimedia Highlights for December 2011
Metrics report card for November 2011 (being overhauled)
Engineering report for January 2012
Website availability status dashboard
Receive reports and announcements by e-mail

Latest press releases

Template:News-en See current events for more information.

Support us

The Wikimedia Foundation relies heavily on the generous support from our users. Please consider making a donation today, be it time or money. The benefactors page is dedicated to some of the companies and individuals helping to sustain the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors.

The Wikimedia Foundation is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, and donations from US citizens are tax deductible. Donations made by citizens of other countries may also be tax deductible. Please see deductibility of donations for details. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers, postal mail or direct deposit. For all other types of donations, please contact us.

Transparency

The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to be one of the most transparent non-profit organizations in the world. For updates about our program activities and our Annual Report, see the other links on this page. Additionally, we provide the following information:

Core financial information. On the financial reports page, you will find audited financial statements, detailed financial plans, and our form 990.
Board meeting minutes and outcomes. The Wikimedia Board of Trustees is the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation. On the meetings and resolutions pages, you will find information about its decisions.
Policies and procedures. Beyond key policies like the Privacy Policy, Donor Privacy Policy and Trademark Policy, we publish all other key policies and procedures governing Wikimedia operations.

Wikimedia Foundation staff regularly participate in open office hours on IRC (an online chat system). Our fundraising work is public and community-driven as well. If you'd like to jump right in, visit the community fundraising landing page.

Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia	Commons Free media collection	Wikibooks Free textbooks
Wikidata Free knowledge base	Wikifunctions Free function library	Wikinews Free news source
Wikiquote Free quote compendium	Wikisource Free content library	Wikispecies Free species directory
Wikiversity Free learning resources	Wikivoyage Free travel guide	Wiktionary Free dictionary
MediaWiki Free & open wiki software		Meta-Wiki Community coordination & documentation

Privacy policy: If you browse the Wikimedia project websites, we gather no more information than is typically collected in server logs. If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. You should assume that anything you write will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages, talk pages and other pages on the websites. See the official policy for full details.