Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator, and owns the now-defunct Nupedia. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks in the top-ten most-visited websites worldwide. The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003, by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis of his company Bomis.

Goals
The Wikimedia Foundation falls under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code as a public charity. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is C60 (Adult, Continuing Education).

The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

The Wikimedia Foundation's stated goal 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. This is possible thanks to its Terms of Use (updated and approved on June 2009, to adopt CC-BY-SA license).

Involvement with WikiQueer
WikiQueer is proud to have an active relationship with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Here are a sample of some of the activities we've undertaken together:
 * Outreach to LGBT communities on behalf of wiki communities
 * Collaboration on Creating Change conference participation
 * Development of MediaWiki.org's WikiProject SysAdmins and WikiProject Extensions
 * Facilitation of MediaWiki workshops
 * Participation grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation to support attendance and outreach at Creating Change 2012
 * Hosted first-ever wiki meet up at a Creating Change conference
 * Hosted first-ever wiki reception at a Creating Change conference

Documents (reports, plans etc.)

 * Wikimedia Foundation 2010-11 Annual Plan (published on 29 June 2010)
 * Wikimedia Foundation's financial report, wikimediafoundation.org
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual report, wikimediafoundation.org
 * , wikimediafoundation.org
 * , upload.wikimedia.org

Other

 * Wikimedia-pedia, knowledge-base, strategy.wikimedia.org
 * Public Record for Wikimedia Foundation Inc., Division of Corporations – Florida Department of State, sunbiz.org
 * The Wikimedia Foundation profile at Charity Navigator, charitynavigator.org
 * Sheldon Rampton's WikiEN-l post, mail.wikipedia.org
 * en.Wikizine.org (An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community)