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Our 2018 annual report highlights the progress we made this past year. It reflects the achievements of the people and technology behind Wikipedia: the 250,000 volunteers each month who dedicate their time to expand Wikipedia’s knowledge base; the 350+ staff members who create the tools that keep Wikipedia running; and the generous donors who ...
Wikimedia Foundation. 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 ...
- $154.7 million (2022), $162.9 million (2021)
- Jimmy Wales
- June 20, 2003; 20 years ago, St. Petersburg, Florida, US
- Board-only
- Introduction
- Strategic Guidance
- Programmatic Priorities
- Budget and Resources
- Summary
We at the Wikimedia Foundation are pleased to present to the community our proposed annual plan for the upcoming fiscal year, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018. As with last year, we are sharing our plan in the Funds Dissemination Committee format, to receive feedback on the plan within the FDC review process. We are deeply proud to support the Wikimedia...
Our proposed plan for 2017-2018 is a continuation of the Foundation’s work as described in the 2016-2018 interim strategic plan, in which we focus on Reach, Communities, and Knowledge. These were identified as areas that the Foundation is uniquely positioned to address, including readership and reach, volunteer retention and engagement, and support...
Throughout 2016-2017, the Foundation made a commitment to increase collaboration across the organization’s eight departments, in order to better resource and serve priority programs. This year, we are introducing “cross-departmental” programs into our annual plan. These programs represent a financial and resource commitment to overall organizationa...
The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to being efficient with funds, focusing our spending on programs and initiatives that reflect our strategic priorities, and improving efficiency and reducing costs in our core workflows. During last year’s plan (2016-2017) we made a conscious decision to slow down our growth in personnel and spending. This allo...
Throughout the coming year, the Foundation will continue to work against our programmatic priorities of increasing the reach of our projects, improving support to our communities, and increasing support for knowledge creation. We also view this year as the year to prepare for, and begin to align with, overall movement strategy. All investments we a...
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On 30 July 2018 the Wikimedia Foundation soft launched the new website. Soft launch will conclude when these goals are achieved: Translated into at least 5 target languages; Completion of quality assurance testing with outside vendors (including completion of accessibility testing) Feedback can be submitted on the website's Meta-Wiki talk page.
Outcome 1: Stakeholders in MediaWiki development will have sense of progress and direction in MediaWiki. Objective 1: Develop a MediaWiki roadmap. Milestone 1: Hire a product manager for MediaWiki by 2017-08-31. Outcome 2: MediaWiki code quality will be improved. Objective 1: Increase measured unit test coverage.
Table #6: Outside Contract Services, excluding Cross Departmental Programs Description Expense Description Advancement 1,378 WMF fundraising teams operate according to industry best practices and leverage a lean staffing model that relies on significant contractor support, particularly for: donor services (responding to approximately 80,000 donor emails), online fundraising campaign data ...
