Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Abbreviation	WMF
Founded	June 20, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-06-20)
Founder	Jimmy Wales
Founded at	St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
Type	501(c)(3), charitable organization
Tax ID no.	20-0049703[1]
Focus	Free, open-content, wiki-based Internet projects
Location	San Francisco, California, U.S. Los Angeles, California, U.S. (registered agent) [2]
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikifunctions, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, MediaWiki
Membership	Board-only
Key people	María Sefidari (Chair of the board)[3] Katherine Maher (Executive director)
Revenue	US$ 104.5 million (2018) 91.2 million (2017)[4]
Expenses	US$81.4 million (2018) 69.1 million (2017)[4]
Endowment (2019)	US $35 million[5]
Employees	~301 staff/contractors (as of August 8, 2018[update])[6]
Volunteers	Wikimedia community
Website	WikimediaFoundation.org

The Wikimedia Foundation is an American non-profit foundation. Their main headquarters is located in San Francisco, United States. The Foundation runs many projects with the Wiki idea and MediaWiki software. Wikipedia is the most famous.

Other sites include Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons,Wikifunctions, Wikidata, Wikivoyage and Meta-Wiki.^[7] The Foundation runs other Wikis that are more closely related to the operations of the Foundation itself. They include the Wikimedia Foundation wiki, the MediaWiki wiki, the Test Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Incubator, Bugzilla, and the Wikimania wiki.

1. ↑ "2014 Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (form 990)" (PDF). WMF (Public Inspection Copy). 11 May 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
2. ↑ "Contact us - Wikimedia Foundation". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
3. ↑ Wikimedia Foundation (20 July 2018). "Wikimedia Foundation announces Tanya Capuano as new Trustee, alongside leadership appointments at 14th annual Wikimania". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on July 20, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, Financial Statements, June 30, 2018 and 2017" (PDF). Wikimedia Foundation. September 26, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 9, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
5. ↑ Brent, Marc (24 April 2019). "Peter Baldwin, Lisbet Rausing give an additional $3.5 million to the Wikimedia Endowment". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019. With their gifts, the Endowment has now increased to more than $35 million and have moved us that much closer to our goal of $100 million.
6. ↑ "Staff and contractors page (Wikimedia Foundation website)". Wikimedia Foundation. September 21, 2017. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
7. ↑ "List of Wikimedia wikis on Meta". Archived from the original on 2012-01-23. Retrieved 2010-11-22.