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The Wikimedia Foundation supports 9 free information projects, including the ever popular Wikipedia. It is run entirely by volunteers, and currently has fewer than ten full-time paid employees on staff.
Wikimedia projects are created entirely by volunteers – there are no paid editors. Additionally, projects are self-correcting for both content and users, allowing for higher accuracy.
All projects can be freely downloaded by anyone in the world. Most recently, for example, Wikipedia has been used to help schools in disadvantaged socio-economic communities.
Wikipedia is the world’s fastest growing, most current, and largest encyclopedias. Currently, it is one of top five brands in the world, and receives an estimated 7 billion page views monthly.
The English, German, and French language versions of Wikipedia are the largest. The English and Spanish versions receive the most traffic.<--Check this
Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki, is on the Advisory Board to the Board of Trustees, as well as Mitch Kapor, founder of the Mozilla Foundation.
All content is licensed under GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This means individuals can copy, distribute and modify each other’s work, as long as it maintains these freedoms.
The Wikimedia Foundation has chapters in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, to support and promote the projects on a national level.
In June 2006, the sites had 128 million unique visitors.<--UPDATE PLEASE
More than a third of North American, adult internet users (36%) consult Wikipedia, according to nationwide survey conducted by the Pew internet and American Life Project in 2007. 50% of those have a college degree.<--Check for updates
MediaWiki, a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia and developed by a dedicated core of techie volunteers, has been deployed as a collaborative knowledge management tool by international cooperation's, organizations, and universities.
The Wikimedia projects run on clusters of around 250 Linux servers located in three different locations worldwide -- Florida, United States; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Seoul, Korea. During peak times, the servers handle over 30,000 requests per second, and average about 19,000 requests per second.<--Check/Update

Statistics as of April 2007

Wikipedia

7 million articles, in over 250 languages

Edited 275 million times

Wikibooks

66,000 articles in over 120 languages

Edited 1.8 million times

120 different languages.

Wiktionary

Articles 2.1 million articles, in over 172 languag

Edited 11.2 million times

Wikinews

34,000 articles in 22 languages

Edited 1.0 million times

Wikisource

200,000 articles in 52 languages

Edited 1.6 million times

Wikiquote

60,500 articles in 87 languages

Edited 1.3 million times.

Wikimedia Commons

1.4 million media files

Edited 5.5 million times