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The Wikimedia Foundation 2020-2021 Annual Report. Having celebrated its 20th birthday in 2021, Wikipedia in many ways has matured. Envisioned as a collaborative encyclopedia for everyone in the world, the site is now accessed 8,000+ times per second, making it one of the planet’s most indispensable information sources.
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.
In 2009, the Foundation received four grants – the first grant was a $890,000 Stanton Foundation grant which was aimed to help study and simplify user interface for first-time authors of Wikipedia. The second was a $300,000 Ford Foundation Grant, given in July 2009, for Wikimedia Commons that aimed to improve the interfaces and workflows for multimedia uploading on Wikimedia websites.
Oct 8, 2020 · Across an extremely wide swath of topics, student editors have been able to make substantial improvements to the quality of content on Wikipedia. Sometimes, like with the Euglossa imperialis article shown in the image at right, the article created by the student tends to stay pretty much as is.
Oct 1, 2020 · This fall, we’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Wikipedia Education Program. Started as an experimental pilot project by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2010, it quickly grew into a global program run by different organizations across more than 80 countries.
Nov 30, 2020 · The Wikimedia Foundation has started its annual end-of-year fundraising campaign on English Wikipedia. In this season of giving, we hope you will consider making a donation to Wikipedia to ensure it continues to thrive and remain independent for years to come.
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In 2020, the Foundation donated $4.5 million to Tides Advocacy to create a "Knowledge Equity Fund", to provide grants to organizations whose work would not otherwise be covered by Wikimedia grants but addresses racial inequities in accessing and contributing to free knowledge resources.