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- See also changes related to Wikimedia Foundation, or pages that link to Wikimedia Foundation or to this page or whose text contains "Wikimedia Foundation".
Parent topics
- Non-profit organization [r]: An organization whose primary goals do not include making profit; details differ between jurisdictions. [e]
- Wiki [r]: A website that allows anyone (with registration required or not) to edit any page and to add new pages. [e]
- Charitable foundation [r]: An organisation with its own source of funding, set up to make grants to other organisations with charitable purposes, or to individuals who may qualify for charitable grants. [e]
Subtopics
Websites
- Wikipedia [r]: An online encyclopedia in every major language, open to anonymous editing by anyone. [e]
- Wiktionary: Wiki multilingual free content dictionary operated by the Wikimedia Foundation and available in about 150 languages.
- Wikiversity: Wikimedia Foundation-run wiki project to create learning resources and provide space to educational collaborations.
- Wikimedia Commons: A repository of free images, sounds and videos.
- Wikibooks: A manual and textbook project created in 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Wikinews: A wiki-based news portal run by the Wikimedia Foundation, the same organization that runs Wikipedia.
- Wikiquote: Wikimedia Foundation-operated wiki that attempts to produce a comprehensive archive of quotations.
- Wikisource: Wikimedia Foundation-operated wiki project containing the original source material for freely licensed electronic texts.
- Wikispecies: Database of species run as a wiki by the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Wikimania: Annual conference held since 2006 for participants in Wikimedia Foundation projects including Wikipedia.
Software
- MediaWiki [r]: Wiki engine used to power Wikipedia and Citizendium; open source and written in PHP. [e]
Personnel
- Jimmy Wales [r]: (1966–) Internet entrepreneur and co-founder and head of Wikipedia, and co-founder of Wikia. [e]
- Lila Tretikov [r]: Russian-American software engineer who became Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation in 2014 (born 1978). [e]
- Erik Möller [r]: Add brief definition or description
Former staff
- Sue Gardner [r]: Canadian journalist who served as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2007 to 2014 (born 1967). [e]
- Online encyclopedia [r]: An Internet-based structured collection of knowledge, inspired by the concept of traditional paper encyclopedias. [e]
- Citizendium [r]: On-line encyclopedia project: a wiki that allows registered, non-anonymous authors to edit any article, with the results approved by qualified editors. [e]