Job openings

Careers • Volunteers

If you believe in making education and knowledge free, you love what you do and want to bring your skills and experience to our organization, check out the current openings below. If you don't see a good fit now, send us an e-mail anyway, include your work experience, and explain your interest in the Wikimedia Foundation. If you'd like to keep up to date as new positions are posted, you can subscribe to our WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list or follow our micro-blogging feed (on Twitter or on Identi.ca).

If you are an editor on any of the Wikimedia projects, or you help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please include your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us.

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Volunteers

Engineering

Wikimedia engineering refers to the engineering team employed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its mission is to build, improve and maintain the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia projects (software and hardware), by supporting and complementing volunteer efforts. You can be involved:

• Tell us if you run into a problem
• Become a MediaWiki developer
• Test our mobile site, or build mobile apps
• Chat with us
• Figure out ways to encourage new Wikimedia editors
• Help to update the engineering project documentation

Fundraising

You will be part of a team responsible for supporting and sustaining the global Wikimedia community via the Wikimedia Foundation’s Development Department. Your work will involve assisting the team that processes gifts from foundations and donors, providing support in numerous capacities. You will update and maintain the Foundation’s various donation pages and the benefactor page, our most visible and significant communications tools for donors.

• Major Gifts (Volunteer Opportunity)

Communications

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects, is currently seeking volunteers to work with the Communications department. Volunteering with the Communications team exposes you to an exceptionally dynamic, mission-oriented community. You will work with international volunteers who are building Wikimedia projects and promoting free knowledge everywhere in the world.

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About the Wikimedia Foundation

Who's working with us now?

For a current list of Wikimedia Foundation employees and contractors, see staff and contractors.

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• Non-discrimination policy
• Pluralism, internationalism, and diversity policy
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