Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. | |
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Abbreviation | WMF |
Type | 501(c)(3), charitable organization |
Location | San Francisco, California, U.S. Los Angeles, California, U.S. (registered agent) |
Membership | Board-only |
Key people | María Sefidari (Chair of the board) Katherine Maher (Executive director) |
The Wikimedia Foundation is an American non-profit foundation. Their main headquarters is in San Francisco in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation runs many projects using the wiki idea and the MediaWiki software. These projects include Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, and Meta-Wiki.
There are many other wikis related to the foundation, but these are mostly smaller projects. They include the Wikimedia Foundation wiki, the MediaWiki wiki, the Test Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Incubator, Bugzilla, and the Wikimania wiki.