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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 Moka Pantages as Global Marketing & Communications/Spokesperson. (10/1/09)
  Posted 1/6/12 at 10:24am
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Zack Exley as Chief Community Officer. (7/1/10)
  Posted 10/7/10 at 8:55pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Barry Newstead as Chief Global Development Officer. (7/1/10)
  Posted 10/7/10 at 8:55pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Ting Chen as Chair of the Board. (7/1/10)
  Posted 7/20/10 at 3:24pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Neil Kandalgaonkar as Software Engineer. (12/1/09)
  Posted 6/24/10 at 6:28pm
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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 added Melissa Hageman as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 11/13/09 at 2:06pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Ward Cunningham as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 11/13/09 at 2:06pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Craig Newmark as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 11/13/09 at 2:06pm
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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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  Wikimedia Foundation added Neeru Khosla as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 12/15/08 at 4:42pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Angela Beesley Starling as Advisory Board Chair.
  Posted 6/3/08 at 5:02am
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Angela Beesley Starling as Board of Trustees Member.
  Posted 6/3/08 at 5:02am
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Stuart West as Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees. (4/1/08)
  Posted 4/23/08 at 8:11am
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Véronique Kessler as CFO.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm
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  Wikimedia Foundation added Brion Vibber as CTO.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 4:45pm

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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. Wikimedia Foundation (wikimediafoundation.org) [edit]
2. Wikipedia Raises $6.2 Million From Users: Pledge Drive Success (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
3. Wikipedia gets $2M from Omidyar Network (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. Wikimedia Foundation press release (wikimediafoundation.org) [edit]
5. Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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