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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikimedia_FoundationWikimedia Foundation - Wikipedia

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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. It is the host of Wikipedia , the seventh most visited website in the world.

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2. wikimediafoundation.orgHome – Wikimedia Foundation

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   Help protect Wikipedia and other public interest projects in the Global Digital Compact. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge. We host Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, created, edited, and verified by volunteers around the world, as well as many other vital community projects.

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3. wikimediafoundation.org › aboutAbout – Wikimedia Foundation

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   The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive.

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   What is the Wikimedia Foundation?

   • The Wikimedia Foundation was established, in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida, by Jimmy Wales as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other crowdsourced wiki projects. ( Until then, they had been hosted by Bomis, Wales's for-profit company.)

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   How does the Wikipedia Foundation work?

   • Instead, this is done by editors who work as volunteers, such as the Wikipedians who create and maintain Wikipedia. However, the foundation does collaborate with a network of individual volunteers and affiliated organizations, such as Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, user groups and other partners.

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   What is a wiki Foundation & why is it important?

   • It is best known as the host of Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website in the world. However, the foundation also hosts 14 other related content projects. It also supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software that underpins them all.

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   Does the Wikimedia Foundation write or edit?

   • The Wikimedia Foundation does not write or edit, but you and everyone you know can help. The word “ wiki ” refers to a website built using collaborative editing software. Projects with no past or existing affiliation with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, such as Wikileaks and wikiHow, also use the term.

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:Wikimedia_FoundationWikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation - Wikipedia

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   Based in San Francisco, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is the organization that owns the domain wikipedia.org. The Foundation raises money, distributes grants, controls the servers, develops and deploys software, and does outreach to support Wikimedia projects, including the English Wikipedia.

6. www.wikipedia.orgWikipedia

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   10,000+ articles. 1,000+ articles. 100+ articles. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WikipediaWikipedia - Wikipedia

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   Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. [7] Initially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed.

8. wikimediafoundation.org › our-workOur Work – Wikimedia Foundation

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   The Wikimedia Foundation was established as a nonprofit in 2003 to give Wikipedia a permanent home. We now host 14 collaborative free knowledge projects , from Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia, to Wikidata , a set of structured data, and more.