Everything about Wikimedia Foundation
American charitable organization
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered and registered as a charitable foundation in San Francisco, California. It is best known for hosting Wikipedia, a free online collaboratively edited encyclopedia that is one of the world's most visited websites. It also hosts and operates 14 related open collaboration projects, and supports 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. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Wikimedia FoundationA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: WikipediaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Open Strategy-Making at the Wikimedia Foundation: A Dialogic PerspectiveCited 48 times
- Go sideways: Wikimedia movementA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Lisa Seitz-GruwellA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕WikipediaWikipedia contributors · 2001
- 📕Zodiac, the Horoscope, the Astrology and the SignsAndres Velasquez, Wikimedia Foundation · 2016
- 📕SELL! Selling and SocialSellingAndres Vrant, Andres Velasquez · 2017
- 📕BASIC COLORS*Andres Velasquez, Wikimedia Foundation · 2016
Webster's guide to e-book readers including the Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble NookLyle Simon · 2011
ROHAN IDEA OF POLUTION.ROHAN CHOUDHARY. · 2009
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