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For the wiki software used and developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, see
MediaWiki
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Logo of the Wikimedia Foundation,
designed by Wikipedia user "
Neolux
Type
Not-for-profit corporation
Founded
June 20
2003
Headquarters
St. Petersburg, Florida
US
Key
people
Florence Nibart-Devouard
, Chair of the Board
Jimmy Wales
, Chairman Emeritus
Erik Möller
, Executive Secretary
Michael E. Davis
, Treasurer
Kat Walsh
, Board member
Oscar van Dillen
, Board member
Jan-Bart de Vreede
, Board member
Brad Patrick, Counsel
Danny Wool, Assistant
Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer
Industry
Internet
Products
Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikibooks
(including
Wikijunior
and
Wikiversity
),
Wikisource
Wikimedia Commons
Wikispecies
Wikinews
, and
Meta-Wiki
Revenue
non-profit
Employee
5 paid employees
Website
wikimediafoundation.org
মেটারতাউ
পাতা আহান আসে:
বনক প্রকল্পহানি
The
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
is the parent organization of the
Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikibooks
(including
Wikijunior
),
Wikisource
Wikimedia Commons
Wikispecies
Wikinews
Wikiversity
, and
Meta-Wiki
collaborative projects. It is a
not-for-profit corporation
based in
St. Petersburg, Florida
USA
, and organized under the laws of the state of
Florida
. Its existence was officially announced by
Jimmy Wales
, who was hitherto running Wikipedia within his company
Bomis
, on
June 20
2003
. Its approval by the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service
, by letter in April 2005, as an educational foundation in the category "Adult, Continuing Education" means all contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation are
tax deductible
for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
Foundation goals
পতিক
The goal of the Wikimedia
foundation
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
মডেল:Fact
In addition to the multilingual general
encyclopedia
Wikipedia
, the Foundation manages a multi-language
dictionary
and
thesaurus
named
Wiktionary
, an encyclopedia of
quotation
s named
Wikiquote
, a repository of source texts in any language named
Wikisource
, and a collection of
e-book
texts for students (such as
textbook
s and annotated
public domain
books) named
Wikibooks
Wikijunior
is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children.
The continued growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent mostly on
donations
but the Wikimedia Foundation tries to increase its revenue by finding alternative means of funding such as
grant
s and sponsorship.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a
501(c)(3)
with a vision to bring a free and accurate encyclopedia to every single person on the planet. This includes people who currently do not have electricity, computers, Internet access, or even clean drinking water. All proceeds from donations, as with all proceeds from all Foundation fundraisers, are fully dedicated to that charitable purpose.
Foundation history and growth
পতিক
The name "Wikimedia" was
coined
by
Sheldon Rampton
in a post to the English Wikipedia's mailing list in March 2003.
The name has been criticized for its similarity to the name of
Wikipedia
and the software it runs on,
MediaWiki
; this sometimes leads to confusion among people new to the project.
With the Foundation's announcement, Wales also transferred ownership of all Wikipedia, Wiktionary and
Nupedia
domain name
s 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. The domain names
wikimedia.org
and
wikimediafoundation.org
were secured for the Foundation by Wikipedia contributor Daniel Mayer. Wikimedia's
bandwidth
and power are covered by donations to the project from various companies and individuals.
In January 2004, Jimmy Wales appointed his business partners
Tim Shell
and Michael 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; they were re-elected in July 2005. Wales and Beesley later launched a startup company,
Wikia
, which is affiliated with neither Wikimedia nor Bomis, though it donates to Wikimedia.
Later, other official positions were developed: Tim Starling was appointed Developer Liaison to help improve the organisation of the development of the
MediaWiki
software, and Daniel Mayer was appointed Chief Financial Officer to help keep a budget and coordinate fund drives. Erik Möller had been the Chief Research Officer, but resigned in August 2005 due to differences with the board.
James Forrester was subsequently appointed to the position.
Wikinews
Wikinews
has news related to:
Brad Patrick
On
June 16
2006
, Brad Patrick, theretofore a practicing
attorney
engaged in
pro bono
work with the Foundation, was named as
general counsel
and interim
executive director
; in the latter capacity, Patrick was designated to assist the Board in its search for a permanent executive director
Wikinews
Wikinews
has news related to:
Angela Beesley
On
July 1
2006
, Angela Beesley resigned from the board effective upon election of her successor, expressing concern about "certain events and tendencies that have arisen within the organisation 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.
After her resignation, a special election was held and the winner, Erik Möller, will finish Angela Beesley's term, ending with the ordinary 2007 election.
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Kat Walsh and Oscar van Dillen were appointed to the Board on
December 8
2006
. Jan-Bart de Vreede was appointed to replace Tim Shell from
December 15
2006
Employees
পতিক
The functions of the Wikimedia Foundation are executed almost entirely by volunteers. As of
October 4
2006
, the Wikimedia Foundation had 5 paid employees: interim executive director
Brad Patrick
, two programmers (software manager
Brion Vibber
in California and server administrator
Chad Perrin
in Tampa), grants manager
Danny Wool
, and, "to answer the phones", administrative assistant Barbara Brown.
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As of
December 8
2006
, the Wikimedia Foundation's list of current staff also names three other technical independent contractors (part-time hardware manager Kyle Anderson in Tampa, full-time MediaWiki software developer Tim Starling, and part-time networking coordinator Mark Bergsma) as well as bookkeeper Carolyn Doran.
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Wikimedia coordination and projects
পতিক
Wikimedia projects
পতিক
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.
Wikipedia
Encyclopedia containing more than 5 million articles in 250 languages (launched
2001-01-15
).
Wiktionary
Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations (launched
2002-12-12
).
Wikibooks
Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials (launched
2003-07-10
).
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways (launched
2003-07-10
).
Wikisource
Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts (launched
2003-11-24
).
Wikimedia Commons
Repository
of images, sounds, videos and general
media
, containing more than 700,000 files (launched
2004-09-07
).
Wikimedia Incubator
Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing projects.
Wikispecies
Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life (launched
2004-09-13
).
Wikinews
News
source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries (launched
2004-12-03
).
Wikiversity
Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been officially decided on its structure (launched
2006-08-15
).
Project coordination
পতিক
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project
coordination
(launched
November
2001
).
Recent project history
পতিক
September 7
2004
: The
Wikimedia Commons
was launched.
December 3
2004
: After a brief demonstration phase in November, the English beta version of
Wikinews
became operational. Wikinews is meant to be a
free content
news source
which allows anybody to report news on a wide variety of subjects.
April 2005:
501(c)(3)
non-profit status granted by the
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
with the NTEE Code: B60 (Adult, Continuing Education).
November 2005: Wikimedia awarded membership in the
World Technology Network
Board of Directors
পতিক
Jimmy Wales
Erik Möller
Michael E. Davis
Florence Nibart-Devouard
Oscar van Dillen
Kat Walsh
Jan-Bart de Vreede
References
পতিক
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
, last modified
October 27
2006
Board resolution
, December 8, 2006
Board resolution
, December 8, 2006
Board resolution
, December 8, 2006
Wikimedia Foundation Current Staff
, last modified
October 2
2006
Wikipedia English mailing list message
, March 2003.
Wikimedia Foundation mailing list message
, August 2005.
Wikimedia Foundation press release
Wikimedia Foundation mailing list message
, July 2006
Wikimedia Foundation mailing list message
Charlie Rose (46:22)
(internet video).
Charlie Rose
(2006-10-04).
Retrieved on
2006-12-08
Current staff from the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation
পাসিলাঙতা 2006-12-08.
External links
পতিক
Wikinews
Wikinews
has news related to:
Wikimedia
উইকিমিডিয়া কমন্সরতা
মিডিয়ার গজে লাতঙ আগ আসে:
Wikimedia
Wikimedia Foundation website
Wikimedia Foundation bylaws
PDF
file)
Corporate Charter of Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
two page
TIFF
file located on Florida Department of State, Divisions of Corporations web site
Public Record for Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
from Florida Department of State web site
Sheldon Rampton's WikiEN-l post
Interview with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder
2005 IRS Form 990 for the Wikimedia Foundation
Projects of the
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikibooks
Wikijunior
Wikiversity
Wikimedia Commons
Wiktionary
Wikinews
Wikipedia
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Incubator
'-ত্ত আনানি অসে
থাকহানি
অনুবাদ করানি থক
2003 establishments
Foundations
Internet companies of the United States
Non-profit organizations
Nonprofit technology
St. Petersburg, Florida
Wiki communities
Wikimedia Foundation
উইকিপিডিয়া
বনক প্রকল্পহানি
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