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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.

Milestones

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  Wikimedia Foundation added Danese Cooper as Chief Technical Officer. (2/1/10)
  Posted 2/1/10 at 2:47pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation — received $8 in unattributed funding (donations) (1/5/10)
  Posted 1/8/10 at 1:11am
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  Wikimedia Foundation received $2M in Grant funding. (8/25/09)
  Posted 8/25/09 at 12:11pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation received $6.2M in Unattributed funding. (1/2/09)
  Posted 1/12/09 at 4:51pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation received $3M in Unattributed funding. (3/25/08)
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:48pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Brion Vibber as CTO.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Angela Beesley as Advisory Board Chair.
  Posted 6/3/08 at 5:02am
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Angela Beesley as Board of Trustees Member.
  Posted 6/3/08 at 5:02am
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Stuart West as Board of Trustees Treasurer.
  Posted 4/23/08 at 8:11am
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Melissa Hageman as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 11/13/09 at 2:06pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Neeru Khosla as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 12/15/08 at 4:42pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Erik Moller as Deputy Director.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Sue Gardner as Executive Director.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Florence Nibart-Devouard as Board of Trustees Chair.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Jimmy Wales as Founder and Chairman Emeritus.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Michael Snow as Chair of the Board.
  Posted 8/5/09 at 1:38pm

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Products

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Wikibooks

Wikimedia Commons

Wikinews

Wikipedia

Wikiquote

Wikisource

Wikiversity

Wiktionary

Traffic Analytics

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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]
4. Wikimedia Foundation press release (wikimediafoundation.org) [edit]