Wikimedia Foundation

the non-profit behind Wikipedia

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational 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 Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property. Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a network of chapters in many different countries to achieve this goal.

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Leadership & Staff

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Jing Wang Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Member, Advisory Board

Jessamyn West Support staff at Open Library

• Member, Advisory Board

Michael Snow Seattle attorney

• Member, Advisory Board

Achal Prabhala Researcher and writer in Bangalore

• Member, Advisory Board

Barry Newstead General Manager at Australia Post.

• Member, Advisory Board

Domas Mituzas Operations at Facebook

• Member, Advisory Board

Wayne Mackintosh Director of the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand

• Member, Advisory Board

Nhlanhla Mabaso Department of Home Affairs for South Africa

• Member, Advisory Board

Teemu Leinonen New Media Design and Learning at the Media Lab Helsinki, Aalto University

• Member, Advisory Board

Veronique Kessler Chief Financial and Operating Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation from February 2008 to July 2011

• Member, Advisory Board

Board Members

María Sefidari

• Member, Board of Trustees

Jan-Bart De Vreede

• Member, Board of Trustees

Frieda Brioschi

• Member, Board of Trustees

Alice Wiegand

• Member, Board of Trustees

Bishakha Datta

• Member, Board of Trustees

Stu West

• Member, Board of Trustees

Phoebe Ayers reference, instruction and collections librarian at the University of California, Davis,

• Member, Board of Trustees

Patricio Lorente

• Member, Board of Trustees

Samuel Klein OLPC's Director of Content from 2006-2008

• Member, Board of Trustees

Jimmy Wales Tech investor; co-founded Wikipedia

• Member, Board of Trustees

Donors

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Open Society Foundations International grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros

• Donation/Grant · 2,000,000 USD ('18)

Stanton Foundation

• Donation · 0 USD

Lisbet Rausing Heir to Tetra Pak, now called Tetra Laval, fortune

• Donation · 0 USD

Knight Foundation

• Donation · 0 USD

Brin Wojcicki Foundation

• Donation · 0 USD

Craigslist Charitable Fund

• Donation · 0 USD

Peter Baldwin Professor of History, UCLA

• Donation · 0 USD

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution based in New York City.

• Donation · 0 USD

The Deramus Foundation

• Donation/Grant

Indigo Trust

• Donation/Grant

Memberships

World Wide Web Consortium Collaborative to Develop Standards to Realize the Potential of the Web

• Member

Global Education Coalition

• Member

Digital Due Process Coalition ECPA reform coalition

• Member

Services & Transactions

Ed Martin Acting US attorney for DC. President, America's Future, Inc. Missouri attorney, former state Republican chairman and chief of staff for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt

• Legal inquiry ('25→?)

National Security Agency National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS)

• Service/Transaction

Miscellaneous Relationships

Ed Martin Acting US attorney for DC. President, America's Future, Inc. Missouri attorney, former state Republican chairman and chief of staff for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt

• opponent

Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX CEO

• hater

World Health Organization UN agency that acts as authority on international public health

• partner*