Wiki Foundation: American charitable organization

Their main headquarters is in San Francisco in the United States. The Wiki Foundation runs many projects using the wiki idea and the MediaWiki software. These projects include Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wiki Commons, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, and Meta-Wiki.

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Abbreviation	WMF
Founded	June 20, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-06-20) St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
Founder	Jimmy Wales
Type	501(c)(3), charitable organization
Tax ID no.	20-0049703
Focus	Free, open-content, wiki-based Internet projects
Location	San Francisco, California, U.S. Los Angeles, California, U.S. (registered agent)
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Wiki, Wiktionary, Wiki Commons, Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, MediaWiki
Membership	Board-only
Key people	María Sefidari (Chair of the board) Katherine Maher (Executive director)
Revenue	US$ 104.5 million (2018) 91.2 million (2017)
Expenses	US$81.4 million (2018) 69.1 million (2017)
Endowment (2019)	US $35 million
Employees	~301 staff/contractors (as of August 8, 2018[update])
Volunteers	Wiki community
Website	WikimediaFoundation.org

There are many other wikis related to the foundation, but these are mostly smaller projects. They include the Wiki Foundation wiki, the MediaWiki wiki, the Test Wiki, the Wiki Incubator, Bugzilla, and the Wikimania wiki.

The foundation's creation was officially announced by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who was running Wikipedia within his company Bomis, on June 20, 2003.

The foundation gets most of its funds from donations, as it is a nonprofit. It also looks for grants. Some companies have helped Wiki by giving free computer hardware, and by hosting servers. Since people can write the wikis, Wiki projects are free to use. Funds are used to run computer servers and to pay staff. The Foundation had 700 employees in 2023.

In 2013, Sue Gardner was the executive director.

In 2015, Patricio Lorente was the Chair of the Wiki Foundation Board.

In 2016, Katherine Maher became the executive director.

In 2018, María Sefidari is chair of the board.

In 2022 Maryana Iskander became Chief Executive Officer, replacing Katherine Maher.

Content projects

As of 2021,^[update] Wiki has many content projects. These include:

Infrastructure projects

There are other projects that help the Wiki movement's infrastructure and interface. They do this by making them work smoothly. These include:

• Kiwix: A community project that allows offline access to the content projects.
• MediaWiki: The open-source platform that powers the Wiki projects.
• Toolforge: A community space that hosts software projects.
• Volunteer Response Team: A community group that handles email inquiries.
• Wiki Cloud Services: A platform for shared cloud computing, based on OpenStack.
• Wikitech: A group of developers with a wiki and mailing list.

Board of Trustees

 

The Board of Trustees in charge of all the affairs of the Foundation has ten members:

• four who are appointed by the Board itself;
• three who are selected by the community of all the different Wiki projects;
• two who are selected by the local chapters and thematic organizations;
• and one emeritus for the foundation's founder, Jimmy Wales.

The Signpost reported that two new trustees were elected in 2019:

• Nataliia Tymkiv, user:antanana (English or Ukrainian)
• Shani Evenstein, user:Esh77 i(English or Hebrew)

Advisory Board

The Foundation also has an Advisory Board, an international network of experts who have agreed to give the foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach.

• Official website  
• Governance wiki

 

Wiki Commons has media related to Wiki Foundation.