Wikimedia Foundation
Nonprofit Organization and Technology Company
Google Book Search: Amazon.com Files Motion Asking Judge to Reconsider His Preliminary Approval of Settlement 2.0...with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. « Huffington Post Readers Select Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director the Media "Game Change" of the 2009 Google Book Search: Amazon.com Files... In this article: Amazon.com, Google Book Search, Huffington Post, Wikimedia Foundation, and Google |
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ResourceShelf | 22 hours ago
Huffington Post Readers Select Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director the Media Game Change of the 2009
...Foundation post, directly above it. What's up? The Huffington Post reader's have selected Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that oversees all Wikimedia projects) Executive Director, Sue Gardner, as media "game changer" of 2009. From...
In this article: The Huffington Post, Wikipedia, Sue Gardner, Recession, National Institutes of Health, Jimmy Wales, and Bethesda, MD.
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ResourceShelf | 6 days ago
Wikimedia Begins Its Annual Fundraising Drive
...of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Wikimedia Begins Its Annual Fundraising Drive A post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of Wikimedia, says that the 2009 drive...
In this article: Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner, Wikipedia, and Yale Daily News
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Sydney Morning Herald - Top Headlines | 7 days ago
Germans take on Wikipedia
...names from the German-language version about the victim, Walter Sedlmayr. But Mr Stopp has also filed a suit in Germany demanding that the Wikimedia Foundation remove their names from the English-language article. This has triggered...
In this article: Wikipedia, Floyd Abrams, United States, Germany, English-language Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Jennifer Granick
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The Times of India - World | November 13, 2009
Killers sue Wiki to clear name
...the German-language version of the article about the victim, Walter Sedlmayr. Now Stopp, in suits in German courts, is demanding that the Wikimedia Foundation, the American organization that runs Wikipedia, do the same with the...
In this article: Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Granick, and George Orwell
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AP Online | November 13, 2009
Craigslist founder joins Wikimedia advisory board
...that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board. The Wikimedia Foundation said it chose Newmark as an adviser because of his work as an innovator and evangelist and his understanding of...
In this article: The Wikimedia Foundation, Craigslist, Craig Newmark, San Francisco, Web-based, Wikipedia, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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washingtonpost.com | November 13, 2009
Wikipedia Runs Ads Highlighting Their No-Ad Policy
...even filters them out. "Knowledge Forever, Ad-Free Forever, Wikipedia Forever," say the ads. They link to this page asking for donations to the Wikimedia Foundation. Update: Readers point out that this is an annual effort by Wikipedia.
In this article: Wikipedia, AOL, Revenue, Firefox, MediaWiki, Craigslist, Jason Calacanis, and Craig Newmark
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ResearchBuzz | November 11, 2009
Wikimedia Begins the Bookshelf Project for Tentative Q4 2010 Rollout
...Project for Tentative Q4 2010 Rollout Wikimedia Begins the Bookshelf Project for Tentative Q4 2010 Rollout November 11th, 2009 The Wikimedia foundation, those folks behind Wikipedia, announced last week the Bookself Project, which is...
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Creative Commons » CC News | November 09, 2009
AntWeb, Fedora Project, Wikitravel → CC BY-SA 3.0
Demonstrating that June's migration of Wikimedia sites to CC Attribution-ShareAlike as their main content liense was a signal of much greater interoperability among free and open content projects going forward and not merely an end in...
In this article: Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikimedia, California Academy of Sciences, Open Publication License, Creative Commons license, and Wikispecies
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ResourceShelf | November 07, 2009
Wikimedia Foundation Launches The Bookshelf Project
A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Wikimedia Foundation Launches The Bookshelf Project Maybe you've been editing Wikipedia for years. Or maybe you made your first edit...
In this article: Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales
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ResourceShelf | November 05, 2009
Wikimedia and comScore Announce Partnership; Top 10 Countries by Engagement on Wikimedia Sites
...educators and journalists. Wikimedia and comScore Announce Partnership; Top 10 Countries by Engagement on Wikimedia Sites Wikimedia Foundation today announced an on-going partnership with comScore that will help expand the...
In this article: Comscore, Foundation, Wikipedia, Asia, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks (including Wikijunior), Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and . Its flagship project, the English-language Wikipedia, ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.
The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis of his company Bomis.
- Name:
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
- Type:
- 501(c)(3) charitable organization
- Location:
- San Francisco, California
- Key People:
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- Sue Gardner, Executive Director
- Michael Snow, Chair of the Board
- Jimmy Wales, Chairman Emeritus
- Revenue:
- $5,032,981 (2007–2008)
- No. of Employees:
- 23 (as of November 2008)
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