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Imagine a World

in which every

single person on

the planet is given

free access to the

sum of all human

knowledge.

It started with a dream

Portrait of Wikimedia Foundation Board member Ting Chen.

Ten years after Wikipedia’s launch, the original vision captured in our mission statement continues to inspire those of us working at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our great accomplishment of 2010 was the finalization of a strategic plan for the Wikimedia movement. It was an extraordinary effort -- over a thousand volunteers worked collaboratively to develop the priorities that will help chart our course through 2015. The plan focuses on five areas: stabilize our organizational and technical infrastructure, increase participation in our projects, improve the quality of the information in our projects, increase the global reach of our projects, and encourage innovation to better enable collaborative information sharing in the future.

Meanwhile, by practically every measure, Wikimedia's projects are flourishing. Readership continues to increase – we are now serving more than 400 million people every month. The total number of articles, and the quality of those articles, continues to increase. In addition, more people are donating to Wikimedia than ever before. Our material continues to find new venues -- it's now visible in maps and social networks; it's available on mobile phones, tablets and e-readers; and it's copied by countless other sites for many different purposes.

That's all good news.

Staff Portrait of Sue Gardner, Executive Director at the Wikimedia Foundation

But our challenges are also clear. Not enough new editors are joining our ranks, which puts a heavy workload on veteran editors. Our core community is men in their mid-twenties, mainly in Europe and North America, so now we are aggressively recruiting others to join our work, particularly women and people in the Global South. In the upcoming year, our particular emphasis will be on India, Brazil, the Middle East and North Africa.

We also need to adapt our technology to better serve the millions of people who access our projects on all types of devices and platforms, including smartphones, low-end feature phones, tablets, as well as in offline settings.

We could never hope to meet these and other challenges without your support. In 2010, people like you made more than 177 million edits, and donated more than $9 million dollars.

Thank you for all of this hard work and generosity.

We also thank those who served the movement for the past year as Trustees. Michael Snow served as Chair of the Board of Trustees from early 2008 until the summer of 2010. Michael, a long-time Wikipedian, continues to be a source of inspiration and wisdom for our community. We thank him for his leadership and support.

We welcomed new faces to our Board of Trustees. Matt Halprin, Arne Klempert, Bishakha Datta, Samuel Klein, and Phoebe Ayers joined in the past year. And we welcomed Craig Newmark, Jing Wang, Mimi Ito, and Nhlanhla Mabaso to our Advisory Board. Our thanks to you all.

Ting Chen
Chair, Board of Trustees

Sue Gardner
Executive Director

Contents

Opening letter

Imagine a world. . .

How do we get there?

Together

Case studies

In progress

People & places

Financials

Contributors

Projects & index

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The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake, Alaska

Imagine a world . . .

Somewhere on the planet, three times every second, a volunteer makes a new edit in one of 270 languages to the largest free encyclopedia the world has ever seen.

Just ten years ago, however, this wildly improbable idea was just that – an idea that almost no one thought would ever become a reality. Well, it did, and now more than 400 million people turn to Wikipedia every month. Welcome to our world, where the wildly improbable can and does come true.

Spuren Im Sand.

in which every single person on the planet. . .

Real people – some 100,000 every month – write and edit Wikipedia. It continues to evolve and expand, thanks to this deeply committed global community of volunteers.

No other living resource exists, or has ever existed, to serve everybody everywhere the way Wikipedia does. To make it truly accessible, we are helping launch versions in as many local languages as possible.

One Laptop Per Child Program in Nepal.

is given free access. . .

Envision a future where every person on earth, rich or poor, has access to all the knowledge that currently resides in our greatest museums, libraries, and archives. Wikipedia lights a bright path to that future, where all children will have the opportunity to become educated and better able to improve their own lives.

Stockholm city library interior.

to the sum of all human knowledge.

Wikimedia’s vision is rooted in a deep reverence for the world’s great repositories of knowledge – libraries and museums.

Almost every week, another major institution somewhere on the planet joins the movement to make digital versions of its treasures available to all. These partnerships brighten our common future, but more work remains.

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How do we get there?

During the past two years, the Foundation developed its first-ever strategic plan. More than 1,000 volunteers from all over the world collaborated in a transparent process that resulted in priorities to guide us through 2015.

Stabilize infrastructure

We operate the fifth most popular web property world-wide, and we need to ensure our operating infrastructure matches our global impact. We will continue to expand our community of hundreds of thousands of donors, work to safeguard our business operations globally, and build a permanent data center to reduce downtime and mitigate risks of catastrophic failure.

Jimmy Wales at Wikimania 2009

Increase participation

Wikipedia's "boom years" of participation are behind us. Now we face the challenge presented by a slowly decreasing number of editors. To gain new editors, we must adapt our editing technology to the changing web, improve the social experience of new users, and grow participation in the Global South by catalyzing on-the-ground work by the community.

Improve quality

Wikipedia has succeeded largely because of the breadth and depth of its content. But many gaps remain, and the quality of entries is inconsistent. Our first priority is to ensure that we give readers better information about article quality, by developing better assessment and labeling tools. We will also help increase the movement’s capacity to develop new and lasting partnerships with cultural and educational institutions.

Increase reach

Today, Wikimedia's sites reach roughly a third of all Internet users around the world. The majority of humanity is now coming online using mobile phones. We need to improve our platform to serve audiences on all devices well. We will also optimize site performance globally, and explore solutions to disseminate content to people with no or intermittent connectivity.

Encourage innovation

The wiki was invented in 1995. At that time, using it collaboratively to create an encyclopedia was a social innovation. Through our history, our community has been the source of most technical and social innovation, and this is where the next “big idea” will come from. We will create an environment that offers volunteers social space and technical resources to innovate, experiment and learn.

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Together

British Museum from NE.

Over the past year, the British Museum and the Wikipedia community have been working cooperatively to develop high-quality articles about many fascinating artifacts in the museum’s collections. One example is the Hoxne Hoard.

The story goes that one day in 1992 outside the English village of Hoxne, in Suffolk, a farmer named Peter Whatling lost a hammer in his field, so he asked Eric Lawes, an amateur metal detectorist, to help him look for it. Lawes brought over his metal detector and proceeded to find not only the hammer but a large number of ancient silver spoons, gold jewelry, and gold and silver coins.

Juliane Bracelet

The following day, a team of archeologists arrived at the field, and dated the cache to the late Roman Empire period, in the fourth and fifth century A.D. They surmised that the items had originally been buried in a oak box or chest, perhaps by a wealthy family during the chaos of the empire’s collapse. Many of the 14,865 coins and some 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewelry are now on display at the British Museum, where they have come to be known as the Hoxne Hoard. Some of the most experienced and talented Wikipedians, plus experts from the British Museum, collaborated to produce an incredibly detailed Hoxne Hoard entry, which includes over 120 citations, and dozens of high quality maps, diagrams, and photographs.

The ongoing collaboration between the museum, which has for over 250 years provided free entry to all, and the world’s largest encyclopedia, which is also free to all, illustrates how fascinating but obscure information of this sort can be given new life and brought to a global audience.

Inside the Hoxne Hoard article

• English Wikipedia's Featured Article: November 16, 2010
• Total number of edits (at time of printing): 1,257
• Peak number of edits: 860 in June, 2010
• Top article editor user: Fæ (164 edits)
• Number of edits by anonymous users: 32
• Article creation April 15, 2006 by user: Tascio
• Article also available in Persian, French, and Italian

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• Hoxne Hoard article on the English Wikipedia.

Case studies

A year of stories and innovation

Usability initiative: editing made easier

Among our top priorities this past year was making Wikipedia easier for newcomers to edit. Thanks to grants from the Stanton and Ford Foundations, we launched our usability initiative, a large-scale collaborative effort based on studies with everyday readers who had no prior editing experience.

By listening to them, we have been able to implement a number of changes that improve Wikipedia’s look and feel, including improvements to the navigation and search functionality, and a significantly simplified editing screen with built-in help and assistants for common tasks. We used the opportunity of a design refresh to implement an upgrade to the ubiquitous Wikipedia puzzle globe, which is now rendered as a fully three dimensional icon.

Late in 2010, with the support of the Ford Foundation, we launched a new upload wizard in beta to facilitate the contribution of multimedia entries to Wikimedia Commons, which now contains almost ten million images, videos, and audio works that enhance all of our free knowledge projects (data from March 2011).

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  By visualizing their research findings as a large affinity map, the usability team was able to bring specific issues to focus.
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  Observational research was conducted with users as they made their first-ever edits to Wikipedia.

One camera: documenting Czech culture

One small grant of $1,500 USD from the Foundation to the regional Wikimedia Czech Republic chapter last year triggered an amazing effort by people using a single DSLR camera to take thousands of photos of municipalities, castles, nature reserves, rivers, and other landmarks

With additional help from the Foundation to support travel, Czech volunteers have undertaken a remarkable collaborative effort to document the country's social, political, and cultural history. This is one of many small grants we awarded to support program work globally.

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  These four images are among the thousands taken by volunteers that portray daily life in the Czech Republic.
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Tropenmuseum: reclaiming history

The Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam has numerous exhibits, objects, and images from the former Dutch colonies of Indonesia and Surinam. As part of an unprecedented collaboration with the Dutch Wikimedia chapter, the museum is uploading copies of some of their historical images to Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedians are organizing and cataloging the images, and also improving their quality. Longtime Wikimedian Durova has been undertaking the meticulous job of retouching photos, removing scratches, and restoring the images to the highest quality possible.

The Indonesian Wikimedia chapter plans to translate the annotations on cultural artifacts and images into local languages. This will allow the Indonesian public to participate in reclaiming a part of its past that until now has only been accessible half a world away in Amsterdam.

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In progress

Actions we are taking for the future

New data center in Virginia

From a single data center in Tampa, Florida, USA, a few racks of servers offer up content to an audience of more than 45 million people every day. If this data center should be affected by a major disaster, Wikipedia and other projects could go dark for many weeks. Given the importance of these projects to people all over the world, this is an unacceptable risk for us to continue to take. In 2010-11, therefore, we are building up additional hosting infrastructure in a new primary data center, based in the state of Virginia. This facility will provide top tier connectivity, and enhanced stability should disaster strike in the future. For now, we are maintaining our Tampa facility as a backup data center.

Wikipedia on campus

The Public Policy Initiative will be the largest effort ever undertaken to engage students in the creation of free knowledge. Thanks to a $1.2M grant by the Stanton Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation is developing working relationships with professors of Public Policy at universities across the US. They will assign students the task of improving articles on the English language Wikipedia as part of their course work.

Every year, millions of students write term papers and complete assignments which have no impact beyond their own education. As a living, breathing community, Wikipedia offers an alternative: Students can gain a worldwide audience for their work, and also benefit from real-time feedback from others engaged in their field.

The Wikimedia Foundation is providing professors with lesson plans and is also recruiting Wikipedia Ambassadors, who serve as mentors for the first-time Wikipedians. The first eight universities taking part in the fall of 2010 were Harvard, Indiana University, University of California, Berkeley, George Washington University, James Madison University, Georgetown, Syracuse, and Lehigh. The program will expand to include many more universities in 2011.

Focus on India

To reach one billion people by 2015, we will need to increase both participation in, and readership of, Wikimedia's projects in the Global South. Not surprisingly, many countries in this part of the world have the fastest growing population of Internet users. But Wikipedia exhibits significant knowledge gaps about the culture, history, and geography of these regions. Over the coming year, we are concentrating on establishing the first significant Wikimedia Foundation presence outside the United States in India, where there is tremendous enthusiasm to help us set an example that can be copied by others around the world. Our goal is to catalyze community and outreach programs and to support the burgeoning Wikimedia India chapter, to plant the seeds for years of sustainable growth.

Our targets for 2015

Wikimedia's strategic planning process identified five key targets to measure our success and progress through 2015:

• 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

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People & places

Representation, governance, and leadership

Board of Trustees

Ting Chen, Chair

Michael Snow, Chair (through July 2010)

Jimmy Wales, Founder

Stu West, Vice-chair and Treasurer

Jan-Bart de Vreede, Vice-chair (through July 2010)

Samuel Klein, Executive Secretary

Kat Walsh, Executive Secretary (through July 2010)

Bishakha Datta

Arne Klempert

Matt Halprin

Phoebe Ayers

Advisory Board

Angela Beesley

Ward Cunningham

Melissa Hagemann

Mimi Ito

Mitch Kapor

Neeru Khosla

Teemu Leinonen

Nhlanhla Mabaso

Rebecca MacKinnon

Wayne Mackintosh

Benjamin Mako Hill

Roger McNamee

Domas Mituzas

Trevor Neilson

Craig Newmark

Florence Devouard

Achal Prabhala

Clay Shirky

Michael Snow

Jing Wang

Ethan Zuckerman

Executive Director

Sue Gardner

Wikimedia chapters

During 2009–10, Wikimedia’s network of volunteer-driven international chapters grew from 26 to 30. Wikimedia’s chapters, which are independent from the Wikimedia Foundation, are made up of local members and directors, and they focus on region-specific work. Typically, that work includes building awareness of Wikimedia projects, handling media inquiries, staging public outreach events, and forming partnerships with local educational and cultural organizations.

(As of March 2011)

AR Wikimedia Argentina

AT Wikimedia Österreich (Austria)

AU Wikimedia Australia

CH Wikimedia CH (Switzerland)

CZ Wikimedia Česká republika (Czech Republic)

DE Wikimedia Deutschland (Germany)

DK Wikimedia Danmark (Denmark)

EE Wikimedia Eesti (Estonia)

ES Wikimedia España (Spain)

FI Wikimedia Suomi (Finland)

FR Wikimédia France

GB Wikimedia United Kingdom

HK 香港維基媒體協會 (Hong Kong)

HU Wikimédia Magyarország (Hungary)

ID Wikimedia Indonesia

IL ויקימדיה-ישראל , ويكيمديا اسرأييل (Israel)

IN Wikimedia India

IT Wikimedia Italia (Italy)

MK Wikimedia Macedonia

NL Wikimedia Nederland (Netherlands)

NO Wikimedia Norge (Norway)

PH Wikimedia Philippines

PL Wikimedia Polska (Poland)

PT Wikimedia Portugal

RU Викимедиа РУ (Wikimedia Russia)

RS Wikimedia Србије (Serbia)

SE Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden)

TW 中華民國維基媒體協會 (Taiwan)

UA Вікімедіа Україна (Ukraine)

US-NYC Wikimedia New York City

Chapters approved in FY 2009–10

UA Вікімедіа Україна (Ukraine)

PH Wikimedia Philippines

EE Wikimedia Eesti (Estonia)

IN Wikimedia India

Wikimania 2009, Buenos Aires

Our fifth annual Wikimania gathering was a bilingual conference held in both English and Spanish, with a simultaneous translation service for the main track. Over 550 Wikimedia volunteers and supporters from around the world gathered at the Centro Cultural General San Martín in Buenos Aires to celebrate the free knowledge movement, with a special emphasis on how to improve the representation and involvement of the global community of Spanish speakers in our projects.

These annual gatherings are part of the Foundation’s effort to strengthen the community and broaden the base of participation all over the planet. With the 2010 venue in Gdańsk, Poland, and the 2011 gathering in Haifa, Israel, our tradition of visiting new countries and regions is continuing.

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Financials

The Wikimedia Foundation continues to enjoy a stable base of revenue, stemming largely from its annual community giving campaign. In 2009–10, we dramatically increased the number of small donors, which now exceeds 250,000 individuals all over the world. This makes the Foundation one of the fastest-growing non-profits in the world, based on revenue growth. The Foundation's strategic plan envisions continued growth over the next five years.

Who supports us

	2008-09	2009-10
Individual donors
Donations under $10,000	152,000	261,339
Donations $10,000 and above	21	32
Foundations
Unrestricted grants	3	5
Restricted grants	4	1
Donors-In-kind donations	7	8
TOTAL	152,035	261,385

The total number of funding sources increased 172%

Where the money goes

The Wikimedia Foundation spends more than three quarters of its budget directly on programs and projects, including Wikipedia.

2009-10 Financial Performance

The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2009–10 fiscal year took place from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Throughout this report all financial data is reported in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

Statement of Activities
{in thousand of dollars}

Description		Amount
Support and revenues
	Contributions	14,490
	Restricted contributions	632
	In-kind service revenue	503
	Other income, net	953
Total — revenue		16,578
Expenses
	Salaries and wages	3,508
	Awards and grants	209
	Internet hosting	1,057
	In-kind service expenses	503
	Operating expenses	3,846
	Travel	477
	Depreciation and amortization	524
	other expenses, including special events	143
Total — expenses		$ 10,267
Increase in net assets		$ 6,311

Balance Sheet
{in thousands dollars)

Assets			Liabilities & Net Assets
	Cash and cash equivalents	$ 7,177	Liabilities
	Contributions receivable	$ 500		Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$ 743
	Accounts receivable	$ 353		Deferred revenue	$ 139
	Investments	$ 5,540		Total liabilities	$ 882
	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$ 661	Net Assets
	Total current assets	$ 14,231		Unrestricted net assets	$ 13,877
	Property, plant, and equipment	$ 1,194		Temporarily restricted net assets	$ 666
				Total net assets	$ 14,543
Total assets		$ 15,425	Total liabilities and net assets		$ 15,425

How revenues are trending

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Contributors

Donors and volunteers

The Wikimedia Foundation benefits from its unique global community of volunteer editors and financial contributors. We thrive due to the vital support we receive from this community, which in 2009–10 made over 138,000,000 edits and over 230,000 financial contributions. Going forward, we intend to continue to serve this worldwide community with every resource at our command.

Wikimedia chapters

Wikimedia CH (Wikimedia Switzerland)

Wikimedia IT (Wikimedia Italia)

Wikimedia Conference Japan 2009

Foundations

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Omidyar Network

Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation

Stanton Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

In-kind donors

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)

comScore

EvoSwitch

Exbrook Design

Kennisnet

LeaseWeb

Teliasonera

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

Major Benefactors ($50,000+)

Alan Bauer

Microsoft Bing

The David and Jamie Cummings Family

Anonymous (3)

Patrons ($15,000 to $49,999)

Aidan Products, LLC

James and Angela Thompson Foundation

Maurice Lacroix

Ryan & Lisa McCorvie

The Harnisch Family Foundation

Christopher Ruddy

Two Sigma Investments LLC

Ron Unz

Anonymous (5)

Leading Donors ($5,000 to $14,999)

"I started writing on Wikipedia because I realized there was a lot of knowledge people might be searching for that had not yet been added in my language. I didn't do it for attention or for praise. I did it because I care about my culture..." - From Indonesia, user: Kartika

Advanced Risk Sciences, Tel Aviv

Michael & Xochi Birch

Milonja Bjelic

Bohemian Foundation

Marc Cenedella, www.TheLadders.com

Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu

CNCRepair.com

Sandy and Linda Gallanter

Arnold Goldstein

Mark Heising and Liz Simons

J. Willis Jarvis

Alison Karlin

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte

Charles R Morcom

Mr. Sony Mordechai, Global Eye Investments

Elon Musk

Pata Industrial Co. Ltd.

Savings.com

SigmaZone.com

Tyko Strassen

Anonymous (20)

Sustaining Donors ($1,000 to $4,999)

I contribute as often as I can, editing articles in English and Swahili. It still amazes me that, here in Kenya, I can be part of a global community that comes together to gather all of human knowledge in one place." - from Kenya, user: AbbasJnr

Jacob Albrecht

Laurence G. Allen, NYPPEX

Allesdruck.de

Allfancydress.com

Dalibor Antonic

Philip Ardery

Ares Software, Inc.

Ascend Capital

AudioBlab.com

Gediminas Baublys

Befrugal.com

Heather Bendler

William Benter

Blueskyscrubs.com

Bodaclick.com/bodas

Brad's Deals and Coupons

BuildASign.com

Terrance Carroll

Cashier Live Web-based Point of Sale

Couponalbum.com

CouponCabin.com

Couponclock.com

Couponseven.com

Credit Card Finder

Criminalrecord.net

Diane & Michael Culbert

Jeffrey N. Dauber

Deals.com

Deals2buy.com

Dealzon.com

Alex Dingle

Divorce360.com

Doorout.com

John G. Dove

Dream Town Realty

Laurent Drion

In memory of Seymour Durst

Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey

Easy-dessertrecipes.com

Faa Facharztagentur

Douglas Ferguson

Adam Fila

Marc Forand

Bernhard Friess

Ken Geib

GEKKO Hotel Recommendations

Bajamonte Giacomo

Gogoshopper.com

Greatorlandodiscounts.com

Bernard Halim

Wayne B. Hayes Healthinsurance.net

Healthinsurancesort.com

Franz Heinsen

Dr. Ronald W. Helms and Mary W. Helms

Fred Hipp

Hospital.com

Huno.com

Don Husby

Ideasbynet.com

Imtoo.com/dvd-ripper

Kazuya Inagaki

Integrascan.com

Tetsuya Isozaki

Joichi Ito

Jawa.com

Steve Kass

Samuel J. Klein Jr.

Travis and Donna Knight

Jeffrey Lamkin

Las Vegas Media Holdings

Jonathan Laventhol

Linda Lee

Lifebroker.com.au

Lifeinsurance.org

Locksmith

Logiprint.com

M5Hosting Dedicated Servers

Jacob Malmberg

Marbella Luxury Car Hire

Brian McInnis

Mark E. Merritt and Lorena Barrientos

In honor of Victoria Anne Meszaros

Midphase Webhosting

Mobileronline.dk

My.topdir.de

Mycoupons.com

Thomas Edward Myers

Myinsuranceexpert.com

Tetsuya Nagase

Yuma Nakaki

Gabe Newell

New.speedysigns.com

Offers.com

Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher

Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit

Isabelle Peutz

Pgbranding.com

PogoTribe

Alex Poon

POS software

Primelocation.com

Print24.com

Promotional Products

Promotional/pro.com

PSW GROUP

Publicpush.de

Roland Digital Group Africa

RPOWER Restaurant POS

Scandinavian software engineer

Paul Schadler

Reese Schonfeld

Anna Scott

ShopGala.com

Signsonthecheap.com

Six Sigma

Skip-hop.co.uk

Luke Skywalker

SuperStoreSearch.com

Edward Swartz

Mike Switek

Techbargains.com

William & Karen Tell Foundation

Thetruckersreport.com

Hodson and Ludmila Thornber

Douglas Tilden

Titter.com

Totallymoney.com

Stuart Towner

Sabra-Anne Truesdale

Deanne Weir

Buxmann Werbeartikel

Werbeartickel

Brian White

Joseph Willis

Marcus Wittke

Wix.com

Xomba.com

Xraymypc.com

Yola.com

Anonymous (207)

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Projects & Index

The Wikimedia projects

The Wikimedia Foundation operates 11 free knowledge projects managed and built by a community of over 100,000 active volunteers.

Wikipedia® The free encyclopedia containing more than 18 million articles in 270 languages, visited by over 414 million users globally every month. The most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled. 100,000 active volunteers contribute new content every month.

Wikimedia Commons™ A repository of almost 10 million freely usable images, sound and video files, serving both Wikimedia's projects and countless other educational and informational needs.

MediaWiki® The leading open-source wiki software on the Internet which acts as the backbone for all of the Wikimedia Foundation's wikis and thousands of other wiki communities.

Wiktionary® Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikibooks™ Free textbooks and manuals

Wikisource® Free source documents

Wikinews® Free content news source

Wikiquote™ Collection of free quotations

Wikiversity™ Free learning tools

Wikispecies™ Dictionary of species

Meta-wiki™ Project coordination

Index

(figures current as of March 2011, unless otherwise stated)

• Wikimedia Foundation sites unique visitors: 414 million
• Language editions of Wikipedia: 270
• Average number of new articles created daily, July 2009 through June 2010: 7,688
• Number of articles across all Wikipedia language editions: 17.9 million
• Number of edits to Wikipedia, July 2009 through June 2010: 137.9 million
• Average monthly page views, July 2009 through June 2010: 12 billion

Acknowledgements

All images from the Wikimedia Commons are under a CC-BY-SA or public domain license unless otherwise stated. The content contained within the annual report is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v.3.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA) or any later version. The trademarks and logos of the Wikimedia Foundation and any other organization are not included under the terms of this Creative Commons license. Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimania, Wikipedia, Commons, MediaWiki, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, and Meta-wiki are pending trademark registration or are registered trademarks of Wikimedia Foundation. British Museum is a registered trademark of the Trustees of the British Museum; Ford Foundation is a registered trademark of the Ford Foundation.

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