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

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   2 days ago · 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. In addition, the foundation hosts 14 other related content projects.

2. wikimediafoundation.org › news › 2024/05/10The Wikimedia Endowment welcomes Mayree Clark as its newest ...

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   4 days ago · By Wikimedia Foundation • 10 May 2024. The Wikimedia Endowment is delighted to welcome Mayree Clark as a new member of its Endowment Board. Mayree, a finance expert, will bring her extensive governance expertise to the Wikimedia Endowment, a nonprofit charitable organization providing a permanent safekeeping fund to support the Wikimedia ...

3. diff.wikimedia.org › 2024/05/08 › call-forCall for candidates now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of ...

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   6 days ago · The call for candidates for the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open from May 8, 2024 – May 29, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation’s work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term .

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jimmy_WalesJimmy Wales - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · Website. Official website. Signature. Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) ( Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American [3] Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).

   • Children: 3 daughters
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   • Other names: Jimbo (screen name)
   • Born: Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966 (age 57), Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.

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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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   How does the Wikimedia Foundation make money?

   • The Wikimedia Foundation mainly finances itself through donations from the public, collected through email campaigns and annual fundraising banners placed on Wikipedia, as well as grants from various tech companies and philanthropic organizations.

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:Size_of_WikipediaWikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · The total number of pages is 60,629,626. Articles make up 11.25 percent of all pages on Wikipedia.And over 40,000,000,000 words! [1] As of 2 July 2023, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 22.14 GB without media.

   • Article percentage: 11.37%
   • English articles: 6,728,199

   • Average revisions: 19.86
   • Total wiki pages: 59,168,960

7. toolhub.wikimedia.orgHome | Toolhub

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   5 days ago · Toolhub is a community-authored catalog of Wikimedia tools. Discover new tools, promote their use in your wiki community, help improve them by contributing data. 0 tools last updated on May 9, 2024 12:03 PM. 3295 tools found. Browse all tools.

8. the-decoder.com › wikipedias-new-chrome-extensionWikipedia's new Chrome extension fact-checks the web with ChatGPT

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   1 day ago · The Wikimedia Foundation has developed an experimental Chrome extension called "Citation Needed" that uses ChatGPT and Wikipedia to check the accuracy of website content. Users can select a statement on any website, which the extension then checks against relevant Wikipedia articles. ChatGPT evaluates whether the Wikipedia content supports the ...