Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Logo of the Wikimedia Foundation Type 501(c)(3) charitable organization Founded St. Petersburg Florida U.S. June 20 2003 (2003-06-20) Location San Francisco California U.S. Key people Ting Chen Chair of the Board Jimmy Wales Chairman Emeritus1 Sue Gardner Executive Director Area served Worldwide Focus Free open content wiki-based internet projects Method Wikipedia Wiktionary Wikiquote Wikibooks Wikisource Wikimedia Commons Wikispecies Wikinews Wikiversity Wikimedia Incubator and MetaWiki Revenue US$10632254 (July  December 2009)2 Volunteers 350000 (2005)3 Employees 57 (as of February 2011)4 Website wikimediafoundation.org Inside Wikimedia video Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan (PDF)

Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco California United States and organized under the laws of the state of Florida where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia Wiktionary Wikiquote Wikibooks Wikisource Wikimedia Commons Wikispecies Wikinews Wikiversity Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki. Its flagship project Wikipedia ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.5 The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20 2003 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales6 who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis of his company Bomis.7 Contents 1 Goals 2 History and growth 2.1 Board of Trustees 2.2 Volunteer committees and positions 2.3 Employees 3 Board members 3.1 Board of Trustees 3.2 Advisory Board 4 Projects initiatives and chapters 4.1 Projects 4.2 Wikimania 4.3 Local chapters 5 Disputes 6 Finances 6.1 Grants 7 References 8 External links 8.1 Blogs 8.2 Documents (reports plans etc.) 8.3 Other Goals

The Wikimedia Foundation falls under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code as a public charity. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is C60 (Adult Continuing Education).89 The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.10

The Wikimedia Foundation's stated goal is to develop and maintain open content wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge.11 This is possible thanks to its Terms of Use (updated and approved on June 2009 to adopt CC-BY-SA license). History and growth Jimmy Wales Founder of the Wikimedia Foundation in December 2008

The Wikimedia Foundation was created from Wikipedia and Nupedia on June 20 2003.12 It applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Wikipedia on September 17 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16 2004 and in the European Union on January 20 2005. Technically a service mark the scope of the mark is for: "Provision of information in the field of general encyclopedic knowledge via the Internet."citation needed There are plans to license the use of the Wikipedia trademark for some products such as books or DVDs.13

The name "Wikimedia" was coined by American author Sheldon Rampton in a post to the English mailing list in March 2003.14

With the foundation's announcement Wales also transferred ownership of all Wikipedia Wiktionary and Nupedia domain names to Wikimedia along with the copyrights for all materials related to these projects that were created by Bomis employees or Wales himself. The computer equipment used to run all the Wikimedia projects was also donated by Wales to the foundation which also acquired the domain names "wikimedia.org" and "wikimediafoundation.org".

In April 2005 the US Internal Revenue Service approved (by letter) the foundation as an educational foundation in the category "Adult Continuing Education" meaning all contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation are tax deductible for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

On December 11 2006 the Wikimedia Foundation board noted that the corporation could not become the membership organization initially planned but never implemented due to an inability to meet the registration requirements of Florida Statute. Accordingly the bylaws were amended to remove all reference to membership rights and activities. The decision to change the bylaws was passed by the board unanimously.15

On September 25 2007 the Wikimedia Foundation board gave notice that the operations would be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Major considerations cited for choosing San Francisco were proximity to like-minded organizations and potential partners as well as cheaper and more convenient international travel than is available from St. Petersburg Florida.161718 The one billionth edit to a Wikimedia project took place on April 16 2010.19 Board of Trustees Main article: Board of Trustees Beyond the Encyclopedia: The Frontiers of Free Knowledge - presentation by Erik Mller about the state of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects in 2010 In January 2004 Jimmy Wales appointed his business partners Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. In June 2004 an election was held for two user representative board members. Following one month of campaigning and two weeks of online voting Angela Beesley and Florence Nibart-Devouard were elected to join the board. In late 2004 Wales and Beesley launched a startup company Wikia affiliated with neither Wikimedia nor Bomis except for their presence as principals/trustees. In July 2005 Beesley and Nibart-Devouard were re-elected to the board. On July 1 2006 Beesley resigned from the board effective upon election of her successor expressing concern about "certain events and tendencies that have arisen within the organization since the start of this year" but stating her intent to continue to participate in the Wikimedia projects and in the formation of an Australian chapter. A special election was held in September to finish Beesley's term ending with the mid-2007 election. The election was won by Erik Mller. In October 2006 Nibart-Devouard replaced Wales as chair of the Foundation. On December 8 2006 the board expanded to seven people with the appointments of Kat Walsh and Oscar van Dillen. Effective December 15 2006 Jan-Bart de Vreede was appointed to replace Shell. In the June 2007 election Mller and Walsh were reelected; van Dillen who ran for re-election was narrowly edged by Frieda Brioschi. Davis left the board in November 2007. Nibart-Devouard's elected term expires in June 2008. The appointed terms for Wales and de Vreede expired in December 2008. Brioschi's and Walsh's elected terms expired in June 2009. In December 2007 Mller resigned from the Board of Trustees and was hired as the foundation's deputy director by the executive director. In February 2008 Florence Devouard announced the addition of two new board members: Michael Snow an American lawyer and chair of the Communication Committee; and Domas Mituzas a Lithuanian computer software engineer MySQL employee and longtime member of the core tech team.20 In April 2008 the board announced a restructuring of its membership increasing the number of board positions to 10 overall as follows: Three community-elected seats Two seats to be selected by the chapters One board-appointed 'community founder' seat to be occupied by Jimmy Wales Four board-appointed 'specific expertise' seats21 In the June 2008 board election Ting Chen was elected for a one-year term then in September Frieda Brioschi resigned to be elected at the board of Wikimedia Italia. In the August 2009 board election Ting Chen (reelected) Kat Walsh and Samuel Klein are elected. Their positions will be effective until July 2011. In the July 2010 board election Michael Snow was replaced as chair of the board although he retains his place on the Advisory Board. Volunteer committees and positions In April 2009 the Wikimedia Foundation conducted a Wikipedia usability study questioning users about the editing mechanism.22 In 2004 the foundation appointed Tim Starling as developer liaison to help improve the MediaWiki software Daniel Mayer as chief financial officer (finance budgeting and coordination of fund drives) and Erik Mller as content partnership coordinator. In May 2005 the foundation announced the appointment of seven people to official positions:23 Brion Vibber as chief technical officer (Vibber was also an employee of the Foundation with other duties) Domas Mituzas as hardware officer Jens Frank as developer liaison Mller as chief research officer Danny Wool as grants coordinator Elisabeth Bauer as press officer Jean-Baptiste Soufron as lead legal coordinator Mller resigned in August 2005 due to differences with the board and was replaced by James Forrester. In February 2007 Forrester resigned and the board appointed Gregory Maxwell to the position renamed "chief research coordinator".24 In January 2006 the foundation created several committees including the Communication Committee in an attempt to further organize activities essentially handled by volunteers at that time.25 Starling resigned that month to spend more time on his PhD program. Employees The functions of the Wikimedia Foundation were for the first few years executed almost entirely by volunteers. In 2005 the foundation had only two employees Danny Wool a coordinator and Brion Vibber a software manager. Though the number of employees has grown the foundation's staff is still very small and the bulk of foundation work continues to be done by volunteers. The location of the Wikimedia Foundation's San Francisco headquarters As of October 4 2006 the Wikimedia Foundation had five paid employees:26 two programmers an administrative assistant a coordinator handling fundraising and grants and an interim executive director27 Brad Patrick previously the foundation's general counsel. Patrick ceased his activity as interim director in January 2007 and then resigned from his position as legal counsel effective April 1 2007. He was replaced by Mike Godwin who served as general counsel and legal coordinator from July 200728 until 2010. In January 2007 Carolyn Doran was named chief operating officer and Sandy Ordonez came on board as head of communications.29 Doran began working as a part-time bookkeeper in 2006 after being sent by a temporary agency. Doran later left the foundation in July 2007 and Sue Gardner was hired as consultant and special advisor (later CEO). Some months after Doran's departure it was determined30 that she was a convicted felon with a DUI arrest during her tenure at the foundation and a substantial criminal history including shooting her boyfriend and complicity in credit card forgery.31 Her departure from the organization was cited as one of the reasons the foundation took about seven months to release its fiscal 2007 financial audit.32 Wikinews has related news: Wikimedia Foundation announces departure of general counsel Mike Godwin Danny Wool officially the grant coordinator but also largely involved in fundraising and business development resigned in March 2007. In February 2007 the foundation added a new position chapters coordinator and hired Delphine Mnard33 who had been occupying the position as a volunteer since August 2005. Cary Bass was hired in March 2007 in the position of volunteer coordinator. In May 2007 Vishal Patel was hired to assist in business development.34 Oleta McHenry was brought in as accountant in May 2007 through a temporary placement agency and made the official fulltime accountant in August 2007. In January 2008 the foundation appointed three new staff: Veronique Kessler as the new chief financial and operating officer Kul Wadhwa to replace Vishal Patel as head of business development and Jay Walsh as head of communications. In June 2008 the foundation announced two staff additions in fundraising: Rebecca Handler as major gifts officer and Rand Montoya as head of community giving.35 Soon afterward Sara Crouse was hired as head of partnerships and foundation relations.36 In fall 2008 the foundation hired three software developers: Tomasz Finc Ariel Glenn and Trevor Parscal.37 In May 2011 the Wikimedia foundation had 65 employees. A list of Wikimedia Foundation staff can be found at the Wikimedia Foundation's staff page. Board members Board of Trustees Board members at Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires These are the members of the Board of Trustees and the expiry of their terms as of July 2010update:38 Ting Chen chair (July 2011) Stuart West vice-chair and treasurer (December 2010) Samuel Klein executive secretary (July 2011) Jan-Bart de Vreede (December 2010) Jimmy Wales chairman emeritus (December 2010) Matt Halprin (December 2010) Bishakha Datta (December 2010) Kat Walsh (July 2011) Arne Klempert (July 2012) the husband of Delphine Mnard a prominent member of the Chapters Committee. Reelected internally in 2010. Phoebe Ayers (July 2012). Elected internally in 2010. Advisory Board The Advisory Board is an international network of experts who have agreed to give the foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas including law organizational development technology policy and outreach.39 As of August 2010update the members are: Angela Beesley Starling Ward Cunningham Melissa Hagemann Benjamin Mako Hill Mimi Ito Mitch Kapor Neeru Khosla Teemu Leinonen Rebecca MacKinnon Wayne Mackintosh Roger McNamee Domas Mituzas Trevor Neilson Craig Newmark Florence Nibart-Devouard Achal Prabhala Clay Shirky Michael Snow Jing Wang Ethan Zuckerman Projects initiatives and chapters Projects The Wikimedia projects logo family In addition to the multilingual general encyclopedia Wikipedia the foundation manages a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus named Wiktionary an encyclopedia of quotations named Wikiquote a repository of source texts in any language named Wikisource and a collection of e-book texts for students (such as textbooks and annotated public domain books) named Wikibooks. Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children. The launch dates shown below are when official domains were established for the projects and/or beta versions were launched; preliminary test versions at other domains are not considered. Name Web address Launched Description Wikipedia wikipedia.org 2001-01-15 Encyclopedia containing more than 13 million articles in 266 languages. Meta-Wiki meta.wikimedia.org 2001-11-09 Wiki devoted to the coordination of the Wikimedia projects. Wiktionary wiktionary.org 2002-12-12 Dictionary cataloging meanings synonyms etymologies and translations. Wikibooks wikibooks.org 2003-07-10 Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials. Wikiquote wikiquote.org 2003-07-10 Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways. Wikisource wikisource.org 2003-11-23 Project to provide and translate free source documents such as public domain texts. Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org 2004-09-07 Repository of images sounds videos and general media containing over 6 million files. Wikimedia Incubator incubator.wikimedia.org 2006-06-02 Used to test possible new languages for existing projects. Wikispecies species.wikimedia.org 2004-09-13 Directory of species data on animalia plantae fungi bacteria archaea protista and all other forms of life. Wikinews wikinews.org 2004-11-08 News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries. Wikiversity wikiversity.org 2006-08-15 Educational and research materials and activities. Wikimedia Outreach outreach.wikimedia.org 200910-27 Promotion of Wikimedia projects Wikimedia Strategic planning strategy.wikimedia.org 2009-07-23 Strategy planning work for all Wikimedia projects Wikimedia Usability Initiative usability.wikimedia.org 2009-02-04 Usability team wiki Wikimania wikimania.wikimedia.org Wikimania conference websites Wikipedia Test Wiki test.wikipedia.org 2006-01-13 Test wiki that runs a recent version of MediaWiki Wikimedia Surveys survey.wikimedia.org Survey aggregation website Wikimania Main article: Wikimania Each year Wikimedia organizes the event Wikimania a conference for users of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. It was first organized in Frankfurt (Germany) 2005. Local chapters (dark blue) are existing chapters. (dark turquoise) indicates a chapter has been board approved but not yet founded. (green) indicates a chapter is in the planning stages. (light blue) indicates a chapter in discussion. Wikimedia projects have an international scope. To continue this success on an organizational level Wikimedia is building an international network of associated organizations. Local chapters are self-dependent organizations coordinated by a Chapters Committee (ChapCom) that share the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation and support them within a specified geographical region usually based on physical boundaries. They support the foundation the Wikimedia community and Wikimedia projects in different waysby collecting donations organizing local events and projects and spreading the word of Wikimedia free content and Wiki culture. They also provide the community and potential partners with a point of contact capable of fulfilling specific local needs. Local chapters are self-dependent associations with no legal control of nor responsibility for the websites of the Wikimedia Foundation and vice versa. Area Title URL Since  Argentina Wikimedia Argentina wikimedia.org.ar 02007-09-01 September 1 2007  Australia Wikimedia Australia wikimedia.org.au 02008-03-01 March 1 2008  Austria Wikimedia sterreich wikimedia.at 02008-02-26 February 26 2008  Canada Wikimedia Canada wikimedia.ca 02011-05-24 May 24 2011  Czech Republic Wikimedia esk republika wikimedia.cz 02008-03-06 March 6 2008  Denmark Wikimedia Danmark wikimedia.dk 02009-07-03 July 3 2009  Estonia Wikimedia Eesti et.wikimedia.org 02010-08-31 August 31 2010  Finland Wikimedia Suomi fi.wikimedia.org 02009-09-21 September 21 2009  France Wikimdia France wikimedia.fr 02004-10-23 October 23 2004  Germany Wikimedia Deutschland wikimedia.de 02004-06-13 June 13 2004  Hong Kong wikimedia.hk 02008-03-01 March 1 2008  Hungary Wikimdia Magyarorszg wiki.media.hu 02008-09-27 September 27 2008  India Wikimedia India wikimedia.in 02011-01-03 January 3 2011  Indonesia Wikimedia Indonesia wikimedia.or.id 02008-10-07 October 7 2008  Israel Wikimedia Israel wikimedia.org.il 02007-06-26 June 26 2007  Italy Wikimedia Italia wikimedia.it 02005-06-17 June 17 2005  Macau wikimedia.org.mo 02011-04-24 April 24 2011  Macedonia mk.wikimedia.org 02010-02-01 February 1 2010  Netherlands Wikimedia Nederland nl.wikimedia.org 02006-03-27 March 27 2006  Norway Wikimedia Norge no.wikimedia.org 02007-06-23 June 23 2007  Philippines Wikimedia Philippines wikimedia.org.ph 02010-04-12 April 12 2010  Poland Wikimedia Polska pl.wikimedia.org 02005-11-18 November 18 2005  Portugal Wikimedia Portugal wikimedia.pt 02009-07-03 July 3 2009  Russia wikimedia.ru 02008-05-24 May 24 2008  Serbia Wikimedia Serbia rs.wikimedia.org 02005-12-03 December 3 2005  Spain Wikimedia Espaa wikimedia.org.es 02011-02-07February 7 2011  Sweden Wikimedia Sverige se.wikimedia.org 02007-12-11 December 11 2007  Switzerland Wikimedia CH wikimedia.ch 02006-05-14 May 14 2006  Republic of China wikimedia.tw 02007-07-04 July 4 2007  Ukraine wikimedia.org.ua 02009-07-03 July 3 2009  United Kingdom Wikimedia UK uk.wikimedia.org 02009-01-12 January 12 2009  New York City Wikimedia New York City nyc.wikimedia.org 02009-01-12 January 12 2009 Disputes This section requires expansion. Many disputes have resulted in litigation40414243 while others have not.44 Attorney Matt Zimmerman stated "Without strong liability protection it would be difficult for Wikipedia to continue to provide a platform for user-created encyclopedia content."45 Finances Increase in cash The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public contributions and grants to fund its mission.46 It is exempt from federal income tax4647 and from state income tax.4648 It is not a private foundation and contributions to it qualify as tax-deductible charitable contributions.46 The continued technical and economic growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent mostly on donations but the Wikimedia Foundation also increases its revenue by alternative means of funding such as grants sponsorship services and brand merchandising. The Wikimedia OAI-PMH update feed service targeted primarily at search engines and similar bulk analysis and republishing has been a source of revenue for several years4950 but is no longer open to new customers.51 DBpedia was given access to this feed free of charge.52 At the beginning of 2006 the foundation's net assets were $270000. During the year the organization received support and revenue totaling $1510000 with concurrent expenses of $790000. Net assets increased by $720000 to a total of over one million dollars.46 In 2007 the foundation continued to expand ending the year with net assets of $1700000.53 Both income and expenses nearly doubled in 2007.53 Wikimedia has been given an overall three-star rating by Charity Navigator however it has only a 1 star efficiency rating.54 There are both supporting and opposing arguments to that Wikimedia should switch to an advertising-based revenue model.55 Grants In March 2008 the foundation announced its largest donation to date: a three-year $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.56 In 2009 the foundation received three grants  the first grant was a $890000 Stanton Foundation grant and aimed to help study and simplify user interface for first-time authors of Wikipedia.57 The second was a $300000 Ford Foundation Grant given in July 2009 for Wikimedia Commons that aimed to improve the interfaces and workflows for multimedia uploading on Wikimedia websites.58 In August 2009 the foundation received a $500000 grant from Hewlett Foundation.59 In August 2009 the Omidyar Network issued a potential $2 million in "grant" funding to Wikimedia.60 In 2010 Google donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation.61 References Cbrown1023. "Board of Trustees". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.phptitleBoardofTrustees&oldid24547. Retrieved 2008-01-19.  2009 Mid Year Financials (French) Open for business (2007) Jaap Bloem & Menno van Doorn (trad. Audrey Vuillermier) d. 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