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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.

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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   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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   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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   What is a Wikimedia Foundation grant?

   • Grants support impact-driven individuals, groups, and organizations whose efforts support our free knowledge mission. Wikimedia movement affiliates support work focused on a specific theme, topic, or subject within or across countries and regions. Years of annual reports cover the activities and impact of the Foundation.

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4. wikimediafoundation.org › aboutAbout – Wikimedia Foundation

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   The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.

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5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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   Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

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.