13 Facts About Wikimedia Incubator

Wikimedia Incubator Foundation, Inc, or Wikimedia Incubator for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 50(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws.

Wikimedia Incubator Foundation was established in 2003 in St Petersburg, Florida, by Jimmy Wales as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other crowdsourced wiki projects that had until then been hosted by Bomis, Wales's for-profit company.

The Wikimedia Incubator Foundation was incorporated in Florida on June 20, 2003.

Wikimedia Incubator affiliates are "independent and formally recognized" groups of people intended to work together to support and contribute to the Wikimedia Incubator movement.

In 2017, Wikimedia Incubator Foundation deployed a caching cluster in an Equinix facility in Singapore, the first of its kind in Asia.

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The Wikimedia Incubator OAI-PMH update feed service, targeted primarily at search engines and similar bulk analysis and republishing, was a source of revenue for a number of years.

The Wikimedia Incubator Endowment was established as a collective action fund at the Tides Foundation, with a stated goal to raise in the next 10 years.

In September 2021, the Foundation announced that the Wikimedia Incubator Endowment had reached its initial $100 million fundraising goal in June 2021, five years early.

Payments to the Wikimedia Incubator Endowment are classified as expenses in the Wikimedia Incubator Foundation's financial statements.

Wikimedia Incubator was replaced by Mike Godwin who served as general counsel and legal coordinator from July 2007 to 2010.

Wikimedia Incubator accused Wales of misusing the Foundation's funds for recreational purposes and said that Wales had his Wikimedia credit card taken away in part because of his spending habits, a claim Wales denied.

Wikimedia Incubator acknowledged that he had "been frustrated as well about the endless controversies about the rollout of inadequate software not developed with sufficient community consultation and without proper incremental rollout to catch show-stopping bugs".

The Wikimedia Incubator Foundation vowed to improve wording on further fundraising campaigns to avoid these issues.