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Wikimedia Incubator
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wiki project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- WMF
- Founded
- June 20, 2003 ; 22 years ago ( 2003-06-20 ) , St. Petersburg, Florida , U.S.
- Founder
- Jimmy Wales
- Type
- 501(c)(3) , charitable organization
- Tax id no
- EIN 200049703
- Focus
- Free, open-content , multilingual , wiki -based Internet projects
- Location s
- One Sansome Street , San Francisco , California, U.S.
- Region served
- Worldwide, (banned in some territories)
- Products
- Wikipedia , MediaWiki , Wikibooks , Wikidata , Wikifunctions , Wikimedia Commons , Wikinews (discontinued), Wikiquote , Wikisource , Wikispecies , Wikiversity , Wikivoyage , Wiktionary
- Members
- Board-only
- Ceo
- Bernadette Meehan
- Revenue
- $185.4 million (2024) $180.2 million (2023) $167.9 million (2022)
- Expenses
- $178.6 million (2024) $168.3 million (2023) $145.8 million (2022)
- Endowment
- $169.4 million (2025)
- Employees
- 650 (2025)
- Volunteers
- 277,000 (2024)
- Website
- wikimediafoundation .org foundation .wikimedia .org (Governance)
- Asns
- 14907 , 11820
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Wikimedia project
- Named after
- Wikipedia:Drafts
- Founded by
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Owned by
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Creator
- Jimmy Wales
- Game engine
- MediaWiki
- Official website
- incubator.wikimedia.org
- Image
- Wikimedia Incubator.png
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- topic's main category
- Category:Wikimedia Incubator
- topic has template
- Template:Incubator
- Commons category
- Wikimedia Incubator
- Commons gallery
- Wikimedia Incubator
- inception
- 2006-07-02
- language of work or name
- Sylheti
- API endpoint URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/w/api.php
- name
- ꠃꠁꠇꠤꠝꠤꠒꠤꠀ ꠁꠘꠇꠤꠃꠛꠦꠐꠞ
- DuckDuckGo bang
- winc
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is most known for being the host of Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites in the world. It also hosts fourteen related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software which underpins them all. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects which had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales' for-profit company.
The Wikimedia Foundation provides the technical and organizational infrastructure to enable members of the public to develop wiki-based content in languages across the world. The foundation does not write or curate any of the content on the projects themselves. Instead, this is done by volunteer editors, such as the Wikipedians. However, it does collaborate with a network of individual volunteers and affiliated organizations, such as Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, user groups and other partners.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wikimedia Incubator” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.