Wikimedia Foundation


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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. It is organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator, Meta-Wiki and owns the now-defunct Nupedia<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks in the top-ten most-visited websites worldwide. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003, by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> of his company Bomis<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">.