Wikimedia Foundation
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American 501 nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is most known for hosting Wikip
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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 Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki
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…the development of MediaWiki, which is the wiki software that underpins them. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects that had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales's for-profit company. It is structured…
Wales in 2023
Jimbo at Fosdem cropped
The staff of Wales' Internet company Bomis photographed in summer 2000. Wales is third from the left in the back row with Christine Rohan — at the time Christine Wales, his second wife.
Wales appearing as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees at Wikimania 2007