I'm Feeling Lucky

13 Facts About Wikimedia projects

1.

Wikimedia projects Foundation, Inc, or Wikimedia projects 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.

FactSnippet No. 1,144,193
2.

Wikimedia 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.

FactSnippet No. 1,144,194
3.

Certain additional Wikimedia projects provide infrastructure or coordination of the free knowledge Wikimedia projects.

FactSnippet No. 1,144,195
4.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,144,196
5.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,144,197

Related searches

San Francisco California Wikimedia Foundation St Petersburg Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Florida Bomis Singapore Equinix Asia Tides Foundation Mike Godwin
6.

The Wikimedia projects 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.

FactSnippet No. 1,144,198
7.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,144,199
8.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,144,200
9.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,144,201
10.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,144,202
11.

Wikimedia projects 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.

FactSnippet No. 1,144,203
12.

Wikimedia projects 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".

FactSnippet No. 1,144,204
13.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,144,205