Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

About Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, that operates and supports free-knowledge projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, and related collaborative reference works. Created in 2003 to steward technology infrastructure, fundraising, legal defense, and community governance for volunteer-driven multilingual encyclopedias and open-content repositories. Funded primarily by small individual donations and grants, governed by a board of trustees, and guided by a mission to collect and develop educational content under free licenses or in the public domain and disseminate it globally.