The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects.
Meet our staff and contractors
More than 700
staff and contractors
support Wikimedia projects, communities, donors, and readers.
Work with us
We are taking on a huge challenge: free knowledge for all.
View open positions
and learn about working for the Foundation.
Meet our Board of Trustees
The Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees
oversees our work. The Board is the Foundation’s ultimate corporate authority.
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We publish detailed
financial reports
that include audited financial statements and budgets.
The Wikimedia Foundation mission
To empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.