From Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
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. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.Wikimedia Strategic Plan
Our Strategic Priorities:
- Stabilize infrastructure
- Increase participation
- Improve quality
- Increase reach
- Encourage innovation
Wikimedia Foundation targets for 2015:
- Increase the total number of people served to 1 billion
- Increase the number of Wikipedia articles we offer to 50 million
- Ensure information is high quality by increasing the percentage of material reviewed to be of high or very high quality by 25 percent
- Encourage readers to become contributors by increasing the number of total editors who make at least 5 edits per month to 200,000
- Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25 percent and increase the percentage of Global South editors to 37 percent
Wikimedia Blog
The latest news and views from the Wikimedia Foundation:- New interactive visualization shows global distribution of Wikipedia edits by Guillaume Paumier (May 22, 2011)
- GLAMCampNYC: help us make mass uploads easier by sumanah (May 20, 2011)
- Developers go home after productive Berlin hackathon by Guillaume Paumier (May 16, 2011)
- Berlin hackathon continues with group coding, discussions and bug squashing by Guillaume Paumier (May 15, 2011)
- Wikimedia developers start second day of Berlin hackathon by Guillaume Paumier (May 14, 2011)
- Wikimedia tech crowd and MediaWiki developers gather in Berlin by Guillaume Paumier (May 13, 2011)
See blog posts from the Wikimedia community on Planet Wikimedia. You can also follow us on Twitter or identi.ca.
Job openings
Wikimedia's content is written by volunteers. Wikimedia Foundation staff work in technical operations, software development, global community programs, finance/administration and fundraising.Community:
- Community Department Research Fellow — open until filled
- Fundraiser Production Coordinator — open until May 23, 2011
- Operations Engineer — open until May 31, 2011
- Senior QA Engineer — open until May 22, 2011
- Software Developer (Features) — open until May 22, 2011
- Systems Engineer - Data Analytics — open until May 22, 2011
- Software Engineer - Community R&D — open until May 22, 2011
- Engineering Program Manager - Data Analytics — open until May 22, 2011
- Product Manager (Features) — open until May 22, 2011
- Software Developer Rich Text Editing (Features) — open until May 22, 2011
- Software Developer Frontend (General) — open until May 27, 2011
- Software Developer Backend (General) — open until May 27, 2011
- Operations Engineer - Special Projects — open until May 27, 2011
- Communications Intern — open until filled
- Wikimedia Merchandise Manager — open until May 13, 2011
- Partner Manager/Senior Manager - Mobile — open until May 27, 2011
- Chief of Finance and Administration — open until filled
- Deputy General Counsel — open until May 13, 2011
- Financial Project Manager/Budget Analyst — open until May 20, 2011
See the Job openings page for more information. Follow Wikimedia HR updates on Twitter or identi.ca.
Transparency
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to be one of the most transparent non-profit organizations in the world. For updates about our program activities and our Annual Report, see the other links on this page. Additionally, we provide the following information:- Core financial information. On the financial reports page, you will find audited financial statements, detailed financial plans, and our form 990.
- Board meeting minutes and outcomes. The Wikimedia Board of Trustees is the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation. On the meetings and resolutions pages, you will find information about its decisions.
- Policies and procedures. Beyond key policies like the Privacy Policy, Donor Privacy Policy and Trademark Policy, we publish all other key policies and procedures governing Wikimedia operations.
2009–10 Annual Report
Latest reports
- Wikimedia Foundation report for April 2011
- Metrics report card for March 2011
- Engineering report covering April 2011
- Website availability status dashboard
- Receive reports and announcements by e-mail
Latest press releases
See current events for more information.Support us
The Wikimedia Foundation relies heavily on the generous support from our users. Please consider making a donation today, be it time or money. The benefactors page is dedicated to some of the companies and individuals helping to sustain the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors.The Wikimedia Foundation is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, and donations from US citizens are tax deductible. Donations made by citizens of other countries may also be tax deductible. Please see deductibility of donations for details. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers, postal mail or direct deposit. For all other types of donations, please
Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation (read more...)
 | Wikipedia Free encyclopedia |  | Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus |  | Wikinews Free content news source | ||
 | Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals |  | Wikiquote Collection of quotations |  | Wikisource Free source documents | ||
 | Wikiversity Free learning tools |  | Wikispecies Directory of species |  | Commons Shared media repository |
Privacy policy: If you browse the Wikimedia project websites, we gather no more information than is typically collected in server logs. If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. You should assume that anything you write will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages, talk pages and other pages on the websites. See the official policy for full details.
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