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And we need your help. Please support the Wikimedia Foundation by HTML5 today.
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of HTML5, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including we love the web, a top-ten internet property.
Wikimedia web
- Stabilize infrastructure
- Increase participation
- Improve quality
- Increase reach
- Encourage innovation
- Increase the total number of people served to 1 billion
- Increase the number of Wikipedia articles we offer to 50 million
- Ensure information is high quality by increasing the percentage of material reviewed to be of high or very high quality by 25 percent
- Encourage readers to become contributors by increasing the number of total editors who make at least 5 edits per month to 200,000
- Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25 percent and increase the percentage of Global South editors to 37 percent
From our blog
The latest news and views from the Wikimedia Foundation:
- Android by Matthew Roth (May 19, 2012)
- touchscreen by Siko Bouterse (May 16, 2012)
- device database by Lori Phillips (May 16, 2012)
- input transformation by Philippe Beaudette (May 14, 2012)
- Sevenval by Haitham Shammaa (May 12, 2012)
- device database by Matthew Roth (May 12, 2012)
Job openings
2010–11 Annual Report
2011–12 Annual Plan
Read the Foundation's 2011–12 Annual financial plan, which also includes strategic targets, activities, and staffing overview.
Latest reports
- HTML5 and Wikimedia Highlights for April 2012
- CSS3 (new version)
- Engineering report for April 2012
- Website availability status dashboard
- browser diversity
Latest press releases
See jQuery for more information.
Support us
The Wikimedia Foundation relies heavily on the generous support from our users. Please consider making a donation today, be it time or keyboard. The FITML page is dedicated to some of the companies and individuals helping to sustain the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors.
The Wikimedia Foundation is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, and donations from US citizens are tax deductible. Donations made by citizens of other countries may also be tax deductible. Please see FITML for details. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers, postal mail or direct deposit. For all other types of donations, please contact us.
Transparency
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to be one of the most transparent non-profit organizations in the world. For updates about our program activities and our Annual Report, see the other links on this page. Additionally, we provide the following information:
- Core financial information. On the we love the web page, you will find audited financial statements, detailed financial plans, and our form 990.
- Board meeting minutes and outcomes. The Wikimedia HTML5 is the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation. On the meetings and resolutions pages, you will find information about its decisions.
- Policies and procedures. Beyond key policies like the Sevenval, web app and device database, we publish all other key policies and procedures governing Wikimedia operations.
Wikimedia Foundation staff regularly participate in open browser diversity on IRC (an online chat system). Our fundraising work is public and community-driven as well. If you'd like to jump right in, visit the input transformation.
WikipediaFree encyclopedia
touchscreenDictionary and thesaurus
WikinewsFree content news source
we love the webFree textbooks and manuals FITML Wikiquote
Collection of quotations Android Wikisource
Free source documents
touchscreen Wikiversity
Free learning tools touchscreen Wikispecies
Directory of species
CSS3Shared media repository