Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation is American nonprofit organization headquartered San Francisco, California. The best known platform for Wikipedia largest crowdsourced online encyclopedia 7th most visited website in world. It is powered by MediaWiki. It is launched on June 20, 2003, and designed to focus on free, open-content, multilingual, wiki-based Internet projects.
The Wikimedia Foundation's mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
The Foundation finances itself mainly through millions of small donations from Wikipedia readers, collected through email campaigns and annual fundraising banners placed on Wikipedia and its sister projects."Fundraising report 2020–2021" - Wikimedia Foundation
==Projects==
===Wikimedia Enterprise===
Wikimedia Enterprise is a commercial product by the Wikimedia Foundation to provide, in a more easily consumable way, the data of the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. It allows customers to retrieve data at large scale and high availability through different formats like Web APIs, data snapshots or streams.
It was announced in March 2021, and launched on October 26, 2021. Google and the Internet Archive were its first customers, although Internet Archive is not paying for the product. A New York Times Magazine article was reporting that Wikimedia Enterprise made $3.1 million in total revenue in 2022.
===Wikimedia projects===
Content on most Wikimedia project websites is licensed for redistribution under v4.0 of the Attribution and Share-alike Creative Commons licenses. The Foundation owns and operates eleven wikis that are written, curated, designed, and governed by their communities of volunteer editors. Any member of the public is welcome to contribute; registering a named user account is optional. These wikis follow a free content model, with the stated goal of disseminating knowledge to the world. They include:
*Wikipedia
*Wikimedia Commons
*Wikinews
*Wiktionary
*Wikibooks
*Wikiquote
*Wikispecies
*Wikiversity
*Wikivoyage
*Wikisource
*Wikidata
*MediaWiki
*Wikifunctions
==External Links==
*Wikimedia Foundation in Wikipedia.
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