Wikimedia Foundation
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website in the world. In addition, the foundation hosts 14 other related content projects. It supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software that underpins them all.
Wikimedia Foundation servers
Wikimedia Foundation revenue, expenses and end-of-year net assets (in US$), 2003–2023 Green: revenue (excluding direct donations to the endowment) Red: expenses (including WMF payments into the endowment) Black: net assets (excluding the endowment)
Wikimedia Foundation and chapters finance meeting 2012, Paris
Foundation staff in January 2019
Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, is a British-American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom. He has worked on other online projects, including Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and WT Social.
The staff of Wales' Internet company Bomis photographed in summer 2000. Wales is third from the left in the back row, with Christine Rohan.
Wales appearing as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees at Wikimania 2007