13 Facts About Wikimedia project

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Wikimedia project Foundation, Inc, or Wikimedia project for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 501 nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws.

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The Wikimedia project was originally funded by Bomis, Wales's for-profit business.

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

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

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The Wikimedia project 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.

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

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

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

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

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Wikimedia project 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.

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Wikimedia project 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".

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

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Knowledge Engine was a search engine Wikimedia project initiated in 2015 by WMF to locate and display verifiable and trustworthy information on the Internet.

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