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维基媒体基金会(Wikimedia Foundation Inc.)是一个多种项目的管理机构,包括维基百科,获奖的在线百科全书。其他的在线计划还包括维基词典,一个多语言的词典;维基教科书,,一个自由内容的教科书的收集;维基语录,名人名言的资料库;以及维基资源,一个原始资料的资料库。

维基媒体是在美国 佛罗里达州注册的一个非营利的社团组织。它是由维基百科的创始人Jimbo Wales在2003年6月20日正式成立的。2004年6月,通过选举产生了两名理事会的用户代表。接下来的一个月进行了竞选,并且通过两周的在线投票,Angela Beesley和Florence Nibart-Devouard被选出来加入理事会。

基金会的目标是维护和开发自由内容, 基于维基 项目并向大众免费提供这些项目的全部内。 在管理已经开发的多语言的通用百科全书维基百科以外, 还有多语言的名为Wiktionary字典和辞典, 名为Wikiquote的引用语百科全书以及一系列面向学生的(如教科书和加有注释的公共财产的书)名为Wikibooks的电子书。 基金会也管理a memorial collection of articles about the September 11 attacks and the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content). 所有项目都因为有了名为MediaWiki的维基引擎而运转起来。

The Wikimedia Foundation owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki. Contributors retain the copyright to their own content and the GNU FDL license used on these projects prevents anyone from controlling the content.

维基媒体的每一个项目的持续成长都依靠捐款。 维基媒体基金会打算通过寻找其他财政方法,包括许可和赞助,来增加收入。

维基媒体的名字是由维基和多媒体组合而成。

The bylaws of Wikimedia Foundation Inc. have been posted on the Foundation's main web site: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/bylaws.pdf.

A Wikimedia Board of Trustees manage the nonprofit and supervise the disposition and solicitation of nonprofit donations. The Board of Trustees are the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (article IV, sec. 1). The Board has the power to direct the activities of the foundation. It also has the authority to set membership dues, discipline and suspend members (article III), and to amend the corporate bylaws (article VI).

As of July, 2004, Wikipedia is funded exclusively through private donations.

For some time, there has been discussion of finding alternate sources of income. Some have suggested we seek grants, or sell WikiReaders. For the time being, we want Wikipedia to remain free of advertisement. There has also been discussion of selling a print version of Wikipedia, such as the Wikipedia 1.0 project. Finally, a membership system should be set during 2004.

For more information about donations, see our fundraising page.

For the details of what we have done with donations since the start of 2004, and how we plan to use our funds, see meta:What we use the money for .

One of the main expenses for the Foundation is hardware.

• Description of the hardware that powers Wikimedia : meta:Wikimedia servers
• Frequently updated status of this hardware : meta:Wikimedia hardware status
• Next planned order(s) : meta:Q3 and Q4 2004 hardware order worksheet

Three servers will be soon hosted in France as squids. The hosting and bandwidth have been donated.

The Foundation currently spend no money on salaries or any other type of employee / consultant / volunteer compensation. It may reimburse costs, such as travel costs, shipping costs, or phone bills in the future.

Domain registrations is another part of Wikimedia liabilities. We already own some of our active and secondary/tangentially-related w:en:domain names, while others are still free or already owned. see also m:Domain names.

See also meta:Wikimedia budget for a detailed list of other potential expenses.

We have a local chapter in Germany , Wikimedia Deutschland start at June, 13 2004. See also Local chapters and m:Wikimedia_Deutschland for their work.

Other local chapters are planning now. You can see how it going m:Local_Wikimedia_chapter.