What is the Wikimedia Foundation?
Q: What is the Wikimedia Foundation?
A: The Wikimedia Foundation is an American non-profit foundation that runs many projects using the wiki idea and the MediaWiki software, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, etc.
Q: Where is the main headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation located?
A: The main headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation is in San Francisco in the United States.
Q: How does the Wikimedia Foundation get its funds?
A: The Wikimedia Foundation gets most of its funds from donations as it is a nonprofit organization. It also looks for grants and receives help from companies who give free computer hardware and host servers.
Q: Who announced the creation of the foundation?
A: The creation of the foundation was officially announced by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on June 20th 2003.
Q: How are people able to use Wikimedia projects for free?
A: Since people can write wikis, all Wikimedia projects are free to use.
Q: How many employees did they have in 2013?
A: In 2013, they had 160 employees.
Q: Who was executive director in 2015? A: In 2015 Patricio Lorente was Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board.
