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Wikimedia movement
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social movement around Wikimedia including content publications, Wikimedia organizations, and independent editors
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of volunteers, organizations, and independent editors working together to create and maintain free knowledge resources like Wikipedia. It matters because it has made vast amounts of reliable information accessible to anyone with internet access, regardless of their ability to pay.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- social movement
- Official website
- meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement
- Image
- Wikimania 2025 group photo with participants forming a "W" shape with their hands.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Wikimedia movement
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Wikimedia
- different from
- Wikimedia project
- Commons category
- Wikimedia movement
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Encyclopedic overview
The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. This community directly builds and administers these projects with the commitment of achieving this using open standards and software.
First created around and by Wikipedia's community of volunteer editors (Wikipedians), it has since expanded to other projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata and volunteer software engineers and developers contributing to the software used to power Wikimedia, MediaWiki.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wikimedia movement” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.