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Wikimedia Foundation

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The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit company focused on empowering and engaging people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free content license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s most prestigious project is Wikipedia, however, they are involved in others such as Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiversity.[Wikispecies] (http://www.crunchbase.com/product/wikispecies)

Milestones

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• Received $2M in Grant funding. (8/25/09)
  Posted 8/25/09 at 12:11pm
• Received $6.2M in Unattributed funding. (1/2/09)
  Posted 1/12/09 at 4:51pm
• Received $3M in Unattributed funding. (3/25/08)
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:48pm
• Brion Vibber, CTO added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
• Stuart West, Board Treasurer added.
  Posted 4/23/08 at 8:11am
• Véronique Kessler, CFO added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
• Angela Beesley, Board of Trustees Member added.
  Posted 6/3/08 at 5:02am
• Erik Moller, Deputy Director added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
• Sue Gardner, Executive Director added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
• Florence Nibart-Devouard, Chairman added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
• Jimmy Wales, Founder and Chairman Emeritus added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
• Angela Beesley, Advisory Board Chair added.
  Posted 6/3/08 at 5:02am
• Neeru Khosla, Advisory Board added.
  Posted 12/15/08 at 4:42pm
• Michael Snow, Chair of the Board added.
  Posted 8/5/09 at 1:38pm

Videos

Screenshots

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Products

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Wikibooks

Wikimedia Commons

Wikinews

Wikipedia

Wikiquote

Wikisource

Wikiversity

Wiktionary

Traffic Analytics

Quantcast

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Sources

1. Wikipedia gets $2M from Omidyar Network (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Wikipedia Raises $6.2 Million From Users: Pledge Drive Success (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
3. Wikimedia Foundation (wikimediafoundation.org) [edit]