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'''Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.''' is an American [[Non-profit organization|non-profit]] [[Foundation (non-profit)|charitable organization]] headquartered in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], United States, and organized under the laws of the state of [[Florida]], where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative [[wiki]] projects including [[Wikipedia]], [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikiquote]], [[Wikibooks]], [[Wikisource]], [[Wikimedia Commons]], [[Wikispecies]], [[Wikinews]], [[Wikiversity]], [[meta:Wikimedia Incubator|Wikimedia Incubator]] and {{srlink|m:Main Page|Meta-Wiki}}. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.<ref name=AlexaTop500>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none |title=Top 500 |accessdate=2007-12-04 |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]]}}</ref> The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003 by [[Wikipedia]] co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]],<ref name="Rupert Neate">{{cite news | first = Rupert | last = Neate | title = Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales goes bananas | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/3399843/Wikipedia-founder-Jimmy-Wales-goes-bananas.html | work = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | publisher= | date= 2008-10-07 | accessdate = 2009-10-25 | quote = The encyclopedia's huge fan base became such a drain on Bomis's resources that Mr Wales, and co-founder Larry Sanger, thought of a radical new funding model&nbsp;– charity.}}</ref> who had been operating Wikipedia under the [[aegis]] of his company [[Bomis]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html | title = Wikipedia English mailing list message | date = 2003-06-20 | first = Jimmy | last = Wales | authorlink = Jimmy Wales}}</ref>
'''Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.''' is an American [[Non-profit organization|non-profit]] [[Foundation (non-profit)|charitable organization]] headquartered in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], United States, and organized under the laws of the state of [[Florida]], where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative [[wiki]] projects including [[Wikipedia]], [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikiquote]], [[Wikibooks]], [[Wikisource]], [[Wikimedia Commons]], [[Wikispecies]], [[Wikinews]], [[Wikiversity]], [[meta:Wikimedia Incubator|Wikimedia Incubator]] and {{srlink|m:Main Page|Meta-Wiki}}. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.<ref name=AlexaTop500>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none |title=Top 500 |accessdate=2007-12-04 |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]]}}</ref> The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003 by [[Wikipedia]] co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]],<ref name="Rupert Neate">{{cite news | first = Rupert | last = Neate | title = Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales goes bananas | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/3399843/Wikipedia-founder-Jimmy-Wales-goes-bananas.html | work = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | publisher= | date= 2008-10-07 | accessdate = 2009-10-25 | quote = The encyclopedia's huge fan base became such a drain on Bomis's resources that Mr Wales, and co-founder Larry Sanger, thought of a radical new funding model&nbsp;– charity.}}</ref> who had been operating Wikipedia under the [[aegis]] of his company [[Bomis]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html | title = Wikipedia English mailing list message | date = 2003-06-20 | first = Jimmy | last = Wales | authorlink = Jimmy Wales}}</ref>

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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
FoundedSt. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
June 20, 2003 (2003-06-20)
Type501(c)(3) charitable organization
FocusFree, open content, wiki-based internet projects
Location
Area served
Worldwide
MethodWikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and MetaWiki
Key people
Ting Chen, Chair of the Board
Jimmy Wales, Chairman Emeritus[1]
Sue Gardner, Executive Director
RevenueUS$10,632,254 (July – December 2009)[2]
Employees57 (as of February 2011)[3]
Volunteers350,000 (2005)[4]
Websitewikimediafoundation.org
Inside Wikimedia video
Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan (PDF)

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.[5] The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales,[6] who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis of his company Bomis.[7]

Goals

The Wikimedia Foundation falls under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code as a public charity. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is C60 (Adult, Continuing Education).[8][9] The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.[10]

The Wikimedia Foundation's stated goal is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge.[11] This is possible thanks to its Terms of Use (updated and approved on June 2009, to adopt CC-BY-SA license).

History and growth

Jimmy Wales, Founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, in December 2008

The Wikimedia Foundation was created from Wikipedia and Nupedia on June 20, 2003.[12] It applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Wikipedia on September 17, 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16, 2004, and in the European Union on January 20, 2005. Technically a service mark, the scope of the mark is for: "Provision of information in the field of general encyclopedic knowledge via the Internet."[citation needed] There are plans to license the use of the Wikipedia trademark for some products, such as books or DVDs.[13]

The name "Wikimedia" was coined by American author Sheldon Rampton in a post to the English mailing list in March 2003.[14]

With the foundation's announcement, Wales also transferred ownership of all Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Nupedia domain names to Wikimedia along with the copyrights for all materials related to these projects that were created by Bomis employees or Wales himself. The computer equipment used to run all the Wikimedia projects was also donated by Wales to the foundation, which also acquired the domain names "wikimedia.org" and "wikimediafoundation.org".

In April 2005, the US Internal Revenue Service approved (by letter) the foundation as an educational foundation in the category "Adult, Continuing Education", meaning all contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation are tax deductible for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

On December 11, 2006, the Wikimedia Foundation board noted that the corporation could not become the membership organization initially planned but never implemented due to an inability to meet the registration requirements of Florida Statute. Accordingly, the bylaws were amended to remove all reference to membership rights and activities. The decision to change the bylaws was passed by the board unanimously.[15]

On September 25, 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation board gave notice that the operations would be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Major considerations cited for choosing San Francisco were proximity to like-minded organizations and potential partners as well as cheaper and more convenient international travel than is available from St. Petersburg, Florida.[16][17][18]

The one billionth edit to a Wikimedia project took place on April 16, 2010.[19]

Board of Trustees

Main article: Board of Trustees
Beyond the Encyclopedia: The Frontiers of Free Knowledge - presentation by Erik Möller about state of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects in 2010
  • In January 2004, Jimmy Wales appointed his business partners Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. In June 2004, an election was held for two user representative board members. Following one month of campaigning and two weeks of online voting, Angela Beesley and Florence Nibart-Devouard were elected to join the board. In late 2004, Wales and Beesley launched a startup company, Wikia, affiliated with neither Wikimedia nor Bomis, except for their presence as principals/trustees. In July 2005, Beesley and Nibart-Devouard were re-elected to the board.
  • On July 1, 2006, Beesley resigned from the board effective upon election of her successor, expressing concern about "certain events and tendencies that have arisen within the organization since the start of this year," but stating her intent to continue to participate in the Wikimedia projects, and in the formation of an Australian chapter. A special election was held in September to finish Beesley's term, ending with the mid-2007 election. The election was won by Erik Möller.
  • In October 2006, Nibart-Devouard replaced Wales as chair of the Foundation. On December 8, 2006, the board expanded to seven people with the appointments of Kat Walsh and Oscar van Dillen. Effective December 15, 2006, Jan-Bart de Vreede was appointed to replace Shell.
  • In the June 2007 election, Möller and Walsh were reelected; van Dillen, who ran for re-election, was narrowly edged by Frieda Brioschi.
  • Davis left the board in November 2007. Nibart-Devouard's elected term expires in June 2008. The appointed terms for Wales and de Vreede expired in December 2008. Brioschi's and Walsh's elected terms expired in June 2009.
  • In December 2007, Möller resigned from the Board of Trustees, and was hired as the foundation's deputy director by the executive director.
  • In February 2008, Florence Devouard announced the addition of two new board members: Michael Snow, an American lawyer and chair of the Communication Committee; and Domas Mituzas, a Lithuanian computer software engineer, MySQL employee, and longtime member of the core tech team.[20]
  • In April 2008, the board announced a restructuring of its membership, increasing the number of board positions to 10 overall, as follows:
    • Three community-elected seats
    • Two seats to be selected by the chapters
    • One board-appointed 'community founder' seat, to be occupied by Jimmy Wales
    • Four board-appointed 'specific expertise' seats[21]
  • In the June 2008 board election, Ting Chen was elected for a one-year term, then in September Frieda Brioschi resigned to be elected at the board of Wikimedia Italia.
  • In the August 2009 board election, Ting Chen (reelected), Kat Walsh and Samuel Klein are elected. Their positions will be effective until July 2011.
  • In the July 2010 board election, Michael Snow was replaced as chair of the board, although he retains his place on the Advisory Board.

Volunteer committees and positions

In April 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation conducted a Wikipedia usability study questioning users about the editing mechanism.[22]

In 2004, the foundation appointed Tim Starling as developer liaison to help improve the MediaWiki software, Daniel Mayer as chief financial officer (finance, budgeting and coordination of fund drives), and Erik Möller as content partnership coordinator.

In May 2005, the foundation announced the appointment of seven people to official positions:[23]

  • Brion Vibber as chief technical officer (Vibber was also an employee of the Foundation, with other duties)
  • Domas Mituzas as hardware officer
  • Jens Frank as developer liaison
  • Möller as chief research officer
  • Danny Wool as grants coordinator
  • Elisabeth Bauer as press officer
  • Jean-Baptiste Soufron as lead legal coordinator

Möller resigned in August 2005, due to differences with the board, and was replaced by James Forrester. In February 2007, Forrester resigned, and the board appointed Gregory Maxwell to the position, renamed "chief research coordinator".[24]

In January 2006, the foundation created several committees, including the Communication Committee, in an attempt to further organize activities essentially handled by volunteers at that time.[25] Starling resigned that month to spend more time on his PhD program.

Employees

The functions of the Wikimedia Foundation were, for the first few years, executed almost entirely by volunteers. In 2005, the foundation had only two employees, Danny Wool, a coordinator, and Brion Vibber, a software manager. Though the number of employees has grown, the foundation's staff is still very small, and the bulk of foundation work continues to be done by volunteers.

the Wikimedia Foundation's San Francisco headquarters

As of October 4, 2006, the Wikimedia Foundation had five paid employees:[26] two programmers, an administrative assistant, a coordinator handling fundraising and grants, and an interim executive director,[27] Brad Patrick, previously the foundation's general counsel. Patrick ceased his activity as interim director in January 2007, and then resigned from his position as legal counsel, effective April 1, 2007. He was replaced by Mike Godwin, who served as general counsel and legal coordinator from July 2007[28] until 2010.

In January 2007, Carolyn Doran was named chief operating officer and Sandy Ordonez came on board as head of communications.[29] Doran began working as a part-time bookkeeper in 2006 after being sent by a temporary agency. Doran later left the foundation in July 2007, and Sue Gardner was hired as consultant and special advisor (later CEO). Some months after Doran's departure, it was determined[30] that she was a convicted felon, with a DUI arrest during her tenure at the foundation and a substantial criminal history, including shooting her boyfriend and complicity in credit card forgery.[31] Her departure from the organization was cited as one of the reasons the foundation took about seven months to release its fiscal 2007 financial audit.[32]

Wikinews has related news:

Danny Wool, officially the grant coordinator but also largely involved in fundraising and business development, resigned in March 2007. In February 2007, the foundation added a new position, chapters coordinator, and hired Delphine Ménard,[33] who had been occupying the position as a volunteer since August 2005. Cary Bass was hired in March 2007 in the position of volunteer coordinator. In May 2007, Vishal Patel was hired to assist in business development.[34] Oleta McHenry was brought in as accountant in May 2007, through a temporary placement agency and made the official fulltime accountant in August 2007. In January 2008, the foundation appointed three new staff: Veronique Kessler as the new chief financial and operating officer, Kul Wadhwa to replace Vishal Patel as head of business development, and Jay Walsh as head of communications.

In June 2008, the foundation announced two staff additions in fundraising: Rebecca Handler as major gifts officer and Rand Montoya as head of community giving.[35] Soon afterward, Sara Crouse was hired as head of partnerships and foundation relations.[36] In fall 2008, the foundation hired three software developers: Tomasz Finc, Ariel Glenn, and Trevor Parscal.[37]

A list of Wikimedia Foundation staff can be found at the Wikimedia Foundation's staff page.

Board members

Board of Trustees

Board members at Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires

These are the members of the Board of Trustees and the expiry of their terms, as of July 2010:[38]

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is an international network of experts who have agreed to give the foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach.[39] As of August 2010, the members are:

Projects, initiatives and chapters

Projects

The Wikimedia projects logo family

In addition to the multilingual general encyclopedia Wikipedia, the foundation manages a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus named Wiktionary, an encyclopedia of quotations named Wikiquote, a repository of source texts in any language named Wikisource, and a collection of e-book texts for students (such as textbooks and annotated public domain books) named Wikibooks. Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children. The launch dates shown below are when official domains were established for the projects and/or beta versions were launched; preliminary test versions at other domains are not considered.

Name Web address Launched Description
Wikipedia wikipedia.org 2001-01-15 Encyclopedia containing more than 13 million articles in 266 languages.
Meta-Wiki meta.wikimedia.org 2001-11-09 Wiki devoted to the coordination of the Wikimedia projects.
Wiktionary wiktionary.org 2002-12-12 Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations.
Wikibooks wikibooks.org 2003-07-10 Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials.
Wikiquote wikiquote.org 2003-07-10 Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
Wikisource wikisource.org 2003-11-24 Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.
Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org 2004-09-07 Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing over 6 million files.
Wikimedia Incubator incubator.wikimedia.org 2006-06-02 Used to test possible new languages for existing projects.
Wikispecies species.wikimedia.org 2004-09-13 Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life.
Wikinews wikinews.org 2004-12-03 News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries.
Wikiversity wikiversity.org 2006-08-15 Educational and research materials and activities.
Wikimedia Outreach outreach.wikimedia.org 2009–10 Promotion of Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Strategic planning strategy.wikimedia.org summer 2009 Strategy planning work for all Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Usability Initiative usability.wikimedia.org 2008 Usability team wiki
Wikimania wikimania.wikimedia.org Wikimania conference websites
Wikipedia Test Wiki test.wikipedia.org Test wiki that runs a recent version of MediaWiki
Wikimedia Surveys survey.wikimedia.org Survey aggregation website

Wikimania

Main articles: Wikimania and Wikimania page at Meta-Wiki

Wikimedia organizes each year Wikimania, a conference for users of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. It was first organized in Frankfurt (Germany), 2005.

Local chapters

(dark blue) are existing chapters. (dark turquoise) indicates a chapter has been board approved but not yet founded. (green) indicates a chapter is in the planning stages. (light blue) indicates a chapter in discussion. Current as of 6 September 2010.

Wikimedia projects have an international scope. To continue this success on an organizational level, Wikimedia is building an international network of associated organizations.

Local chapters are self-dependent organizations, coordinated by a Chapters Committee (ChapCom), that share the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation and support them within a specified geographical region, usually based on physical boundaries. They support the foundation, the Wikimedia community and Wikimedia projects in different ways—by collecting donations, organizing local events and projects and spreading the word of Wikimedia, free content and Wiki culture. They also provide the community and potential partners with a point of contact capable of fulfilling specific local needs.

Local chapters are self-dependent associations with no legal control of nor responsibility for the websites of the Wikimedia Foundation and vice versa.

Area Title URL Since
 Argentina Wikimedia Argentina wikimedia.org.ar September 1, 2007
 Australia Wikimedia Australia wikimedia.org.au March 1, 2008
 Austria Wikimedia Österreich wikimedia.at February 26, 2008
 Czech Republic Wikimedia Česká republika wikimedia.cz March 6, 2008
 Denmark Wikimedia Danmark wikimedia.dk July 3, 2009
 Estonia Wikimedia Eesti et.wikimedia.org August 31, 2010
 Finland Wikimedia Suomi fi.wikimedia.org September 21, 2009
 France Wikimédia France wikimedia.fr October 23, 2004
 Germany Wikimedia Deutschland wikimedia.de June 13, 2004
 Hong Kong 香港維基媒體協會 wikimedia.hk March 1, 2008
 Hungary Wikimédia Magyarország wiki.media.hu September 27, 2008
 India Wikimedia India wikimedia.in January 3, 2011
 Indonesia Wikimedia Indonesia wikimedia.or.id October 7, 2008
 Israel Wikimedia Israel wikimedia.org.il June 26, 2007
 Italy Wikimedia Italia wikimedia.it June 17, 2005
 Macedonia Викимедија Македонија mk.wikimedia.org February 1, 2010
 Netherlands Wikimedia Nederland nl.wikimedia.org March 27, 2006
 Norway Wikimedia Norge no.wikimedia.org June 23, 2007
 Philippines Wikimedia Philippines wikimedia.org.ph April 12, 2010
 Poland Wikimedia Polska pl.wikimedia.org November 18, 2005
 Portugal Wikimedia Portugal wikimedia.pt July 3, 2009
 Russia Викимедиа РУ wikimedia.ru May 24, 2008
 Serbia Wikimedia Serbia rs.wikimedia.org December 3, 2005
 Spain Wikimedia España wikimedia.org.es February 7, 2011
 Sweden Wikimedia Sverige se.wikimedia.org December 11, 2007
  Switzerland Wikimedia CH wikimedia.ch May 14, 2006
 Republic of China 中華民國維基媒體協會 wikimedia.tw July 4, 2007
 Ukraine Вікімедіа Україна wikimedia.org.ua July 3, 2009
 United Kingdom Wikimedia UK uk.wikimedia.org January 12, 2009
 New York City Wikimedia New York City nyc.wikimedia.org January 12, 2009

Disputes

Many disputes have resulted in litigation[40][41][42][43] while others have not.[44] Attorney Matt Zimmerman stated "Without strong liability protection, it would be difficult for Wikipedia to continue to provide a platform for user-created encyclopedia content."[45]

Finances

Increase in cash

The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public contributions and grants to fund its mission.[46] It is exempt from federal income tax[46][47] and from state income tax.[46][48] It is not a private foundation, and contributions to it qualify as tax-deductible charitable contributions.[46] The continued technical and economic growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent mostly on donations but the Wikimedia Foundation also increases its revenue by alternative means of funding such as grants, sponsorship, services and brand merchandising. The Wikimedia OAI-PMH update feed service, targeted primarily at search engines and similar bulk analysis and republishing, has been a source of revenue for several years,[49][50] but is no longer open to new customers.[51] DBpedia was given access to this feed free of charge.[52]

At the beginning of 2006, the foundation's net assets were $270,000. During the year, the organization received support and revenue totaling $1,510,000, with concurrent expenses of $790,000. Net assets increased by $720,000 to a total of over one million dollars.[46] In 2007, the foundation continued to expand, ending the year with net assets of $1,700,000.[53] Both income and expenses nearly doubled in 2007.[53] Wikimedia has been given a three-star rating by Charity Navigator.[54]

There are both supporting and opposing arguments to that Wikimedia should switch to an advertising-based revenue model.[55]

Grants

In March 2008 the foundation announced its largest donation to date: a three-year, $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[56] In 2009, the foundation received three grants – the first grant was a $890,000 Stanton Foundation grant and aimed to help study and simplify user interface for first-time authors of Wikipedia.[57] The second was a $300,000 Ford Foundation Grant, given in July 2009, for Wikimedia Commons that aimed to improve the interfaces and workflows for multimedia uploading on Wikimedia websites.[58] In August 2009, the foundation received a $500,000 grant from Hewlett Foundation.[59] In August 2009, the Omidyar Network issued a potential $2 million in "grant" funding to Wikimedia.[60] In 2010, Google donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation.[61]

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