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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. [5] It is the host of Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website in the world. In addition, the foundation hosts 14 other related content projects.
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Content projects
As of 2021,[update]Wikimedia has many content projects. These include:
Infrastructure projects
There are other projects that help the Wikimedia movement's infrastructure and interface. They do this by making them work smoothly. These include: 1. Kiwix: A community project that allows offline access to the content projects. 2. MediaWiki: The open-source platform that powers the Wikimedia projects. 3. Toolforge: A community space that hosts software projects. 4. Volunteer Response Team: A community group that handles email inquiries. 5. Wikimedia Cloud Services: A platform for shared clo...
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees in charge of all the affairs of the Foundation has ten members: 1. four who are appointed by the Board itself; 2. three who are selected by the community of all the different Wikimedia projects; 3. two who are selected by the local chapters and thematic organizations; 4. and one emeritus for the foundation's founder, Jimmy Wales. The Signpostreported that two new trustees were elected in 2019: 1. Nataliia Tymkiv, user:antanana (English or Ukrainian) 2. Shani Evenstein, u...
Advisory Board
The Foundation also has an Advisory Board, 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.
The two major types of nonprofit organization are membership and board-only. A membership organization elects the board and has regular meetings and the power to amend the bylaws. A board-only organization typically has a self-selected board and a membership whose powers are limited to those delegated to it by the board.
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency . The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulations (including the jurisdiction's corporate law) and the ...
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Chessboard. A chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape and uses two colours of squares, one light and one dark, in a chequered pattern. During play, the board is oriented such that each player's near-right corner square is a light ...
