مؤسسة ويكيميديا

(تم التحويل من ويكيميديا)
مؤسسة ويكيميديا
Wikimedia Foundation logo - vertical.svg
الاختصارWMF
تأسست20 يونيو 2003; منذ 20 سنة (2003-06-20
سانت پطرسبورگ، فلوريدا، الولايات المتحدة
المؤسسجيمي ويلز[1][2]
النوع501(c)(3)، منظمة خيرية
20-0049703[3]
التركيزمشاريع ويكي قائمة على الإنترنت مفتوحة المحتوى، مجانية وحرة
الموقع
منطقة الخدمة
عالمية
المنتجsويكي‌پيديا، ويكاموس، ويكيميديا كومنز، ويكي بيانات، ويكي الاقتباس، ويكي الكتب، ويكي مصدر، ويكي أنواع، ويكي الأخبار، ويكي الجامعة، ويكي الرحلات، ميدياويكي
الأعضاءالأعضاء
المجلس-فقط
الدخل
  • ▲ US$127.2 million (2020)
  • 122.1 million (2019)[5]
المصاريف
  • ▲ US$112.5 million (2020)
  • 91.4 million (2019)[5]
الوقف (2021)>US$90 million[6][7]
الموظفون
450+ staff/contractors (اعتبارا من 16 أبريل 2021 (2021-04-16))[8]
الموقع الإلكترونيwikimediafoundation.org foundation.wikimedia.org

مؤسسة ويكيميديا Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF، أو ببساطة ويكيميديا) هي مؤسسة أمريكية خيرية غير ربحية مقرها في سان فرانسسكو، كاليفورنيا.[9]تمتلك مؤسسة ويكيميديا وتدير ويكي‌پيديا بالإضافة إلى مشاريع ويكيميديا. تمت كتابة محتوى هذه المشاريع من قبل متطوعين.[10][11][12][13]

تأسست المؤسسة في عام 2003 بواسطة جيمي ويلز كوسيلة لتمويل ويكي‌پيديا ومشاريعها الشقيقة من خلال وسائل غير ربحية.[1][2][بحاجة لمصدر غير رئيسي] اعتبارا من 2021, توظف المؤسسة أكثر من 450 موظفاً وصاحب مشاريع، بإيرادات سنوية تزيد عن دولار125 million.

كانت ماريا سفيداري رئيس مجلس الإدارة حتى تنحيت وأصبحت مستشارة بأجر للمؤسسة في أوائل يونيو 2021;[14]تشغل نائبة رئيس مجلس الإدارة ناتاليا تيمكيڤ منصب القائم بأعمال الرئيس حالياً. كانت كاثرين ماهر المدير التنفيذي من يونيو 2016; ومع ذلك، استقالت في أبريل 2021.[15][6]

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هدف المؤسسة

هدف مؤسسة ويكيميديا هو تطوير المحتوى المفتوح والحفاظ عليه، والمشاريع القائمة على ويكي وتقديم المحتويات الكاملة لتلك المشاريع للجمهور مجاناً.[16]الهدف الرئيسي الآخر لمؤسسة ويكيميديا هو المناصرة السياسية.[17] تزعم ويكيميديا أنها تعمل من أجل تجميع ومشاركة "مجموع المعرفة البشرية".

مُنحت مؤسسة ويكيميديا القسم 501(c)(3) من قانون الإيرادات الداخلية الأمريكي كمؤسسة خيرية عامة في 2005.[18] رمز التصنيف الوطني للكيانات المعفاة (NTEE) الخاص بها هو B60 ( الكبار، التعليم المستمر).[19][20] تعلن اللوائح الداخلية للمؤسسة عن بيان الغرض من جمع وتطوير المحتوى التعليمي ونشره بشكل فعال وشامل.[21]


تاريخ

انظر أيضاً: تاريخ ويكي‌پيديا

الاسم "ويكيميديا"، كلمة مركبة من ويكي و وسائط، صاغه المؤلف الأمريكي شيلدون رامپتون في رسالة القائمة البريدية الإنجليزية في مارس 2003،[22]بعد ثلاثة أشهر من ويكاموس أصبح ويكيميديا ثاني مشروع قائم على الويكي يتم استضافته على منصة ويلز.

في أبريل 2005، وافقت مصلحة الإيرادات الداخلية الأمريكية على المؤسسة كمؤسسة تعليمية في فئة "التعليم المستمر للبالغين، مما يعني أن جميع المساهمات في المؤسسة معفاة من الضرائب لأغراض ضريبة الدخل الفيدرالية الأمريكية.

في 11 ديسمبر 2006، لاحظ مجلس إدارة المؤسسة أن الشركة لا يمكن أن تصبح منظمة العضوية المخطط لها في البداية ولكنها لم تنفذ أبداً بسبب عدم القدرة على تلبية متطلبات التسجيل في قانون فلوريدا القانوني. وبناءً عليه، تم تعديل اللوائح لإزالة جميع الإشارات إلى حقوق العضوية وأنشطتها. صدر قرار تغيير اللوائح من قبل مجلس الإدارة بالإجماع.[23][2]

في 25 سبتمبر 2007، أعطى مجلس إدارة المؤسسة إشعاراً بأن العمليات ستنتقل إلى منطقة خليج سان فرانسيسكو. كانت الاعتبارات الرئيسية التي تم الاستشهاد بها عند اختيار سان فرانسيسكو هي القرب من المنظمات ذات التفكير المماثل والشركاء المحتملين، وتجمع أفضل للمواهب، فضلاً عن السفر الدولي الأرخص والأكثر ملاءمة مما هو متاح من سانت پطرسبورگ، فلوريدا.[24][25][26] تم الانتهاء من الانتقال من فلوريدا بحلول 31 يناير 2008، مع وجود المقر الرئيسي في شارع ستيلمان في سان فرانسيسكو.[27]

في عام 2009، انتقل المقر الرئيسي لمؤسسة ويكيميديا إلى شارع نيو مونتگمري.

تم تعيين ليلى ترتيكوڤ مديرة تنفيذية لمؤسسة ويكيميديا في مايو 2014.[28][29]ولكن استقالت في مارس 2016. وعُينت مديرة الاتصالات السابقة كاثرين ماهر مديرة تنفيذية مؤقتة، وهو منصب أصبح دائماً في يونيو 2016.

في أكتوبر 2017، انتقل المقر الرئيسي إلى برج مونتگمري ون في سان فرانسيسكو.[30] عين مجلس الإدارة جانين أوزيل كمدير العمليات في أوائل عام 2019.[31]

في سبتمبر 2020، تم حظر طلب مؤسسة ويكيميديا للحصول على مراقب في المنظمة العالمية للملكية الفكرية (WIPO) بعد اعتراضات من حكومة الصين[32] حول وجود شركة تابعة لمؤسسة ويكيميديا في تايوان.[33]

في 16 مارس 2021، أعلنت مؤسسة ويكيميديا إطلاق مشروع ويكيميديا، وهو منتج تجاري مصمم لبيع وتقديم محتوى ويكي‌پيديا مباشرة إلى شركات عمالقة التكنولوجيا.[34] يمكن التوصل إلى اتفاقيات بين شركات عمالقة التكنولوجيا و ويكيميدا محدودة المسؤولية، شركة تابعة جديدة للمؤسسة، في وقت مبكر من يونيو. [34] تخطط مؤسسة ويكيميديا أيضاً لتقديم مشروع ويكيميديا للشركات الأصغر.[34]

المشاريع والمبادرات

مشاريع ويكيميديا

لمعلومات عن the complete list، انظر foundation:Special:SiteMatrix وm:Complete list of Wikimedia projects.

تم ترخيص المحتوى الموجود في معظم مشاريع ويكيميديا موقع الوب لإعادة التوزيع بموجب v3.0 من رخص المشاع الإبداعي الإسناد و المشاركة بالمثل. تم الحصول على هذا المحتوى من متطوعين مساهمين ومن موارد ذات قيود قليلة أو معدومة من حقوق التأليف والنشر، مثل مواد الحقوق المتروكة والأعمال في المجال العامة.

مشاريع المحتوى

تدير المؤسسة أحد عشر موقع ويكي تتبع نموذج المحتوى الحر بهدف رئيسي هو نشر المعرفة. وتشمل هذه، حسب تاريخ الإطلاق:

Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg الاسم: ويكي‌پيديا
الوصف: موسوعة أونلاين
الموقع: www.wikipedia.org
الإطلاق: 15 يناير، 2001
النسخ: أكثر من 290 بأكثر من 250 لغة
ترتيب ألكسا: 13 (عالمية، April 2021)[35] 		Wiktionary-logo.svg الاسم: Wiktionary
الوصف: قاموس أونلاين و قاموس المترادفات
الموقع: www.wiktionary.org
الإطلاق: 12 ديسمبر، 2002
النسخ: أكثر من 170 لغة وباللغة الإنگليزية البسيطة
ترتيب ألكسا: 848 (عالمية، April 2021)[36] 		Wikibooks-logo.svg الاسم: ويكي الكتب
الوصف: مجموعة من الكتب المدرسيةs
الموقع: www.wikibooks.org
الإطلاق: 10 يوليو، 2003
ترتيب ألكسا: 5,682 (عالمية، April 2021)[37]
Wikiquote-logo.svg الاسم: ويكي الاقتباس
الوصف:مجموعة من الاقتباسات
الموقع: www.wikiquote.org
الإطلاق: 10 يوليو، 2003
ترتيب ألكسا: 12,129 (عالمية، April 2021)[38] 		Wikivoyage-logo.svg الاسم: ويكي الرحلات
الوصف: دليل سفر
الموقع: www.wikivoyage.org
الإطلاق: يوليو 2003 ويكي الرحلات
تفرعت: 10 ديسمبر، 2006 (باللغة الألمانية)
إعادة الإطلاق: 15 يناير، 2013، بواسطة WMF في اللغة الإنجليزية
ترتيب ألكسا: 41,939 (عالمية، April 2021)[39] 		Wikisource-logo.svg الاسم: ويكي المصادر
الوصف: مكتبات رقمية
الموقع: wikisource.org
الإطلاق: 24 نوفمبر، 2003
ترتيب ألكسا: 4,387 (عالمية، April 2021)[40]
Commons-logo.svg الاسم: ويكيميديا كومنز
الوصف: مستودع للصور والأصوات ومقاطع الفيديو والوسائط العامة
الموقع: commons.wikimedia.org
الإطلاق: 7 سبتمبر، 2004 		Wikispecies-logo.svg الاسم: ويكي أنواع
الوصف: فهرس تصنيفي للأنواع
الموقع: species.wikimedia.org
الإطلاق: 14 سبتمبر، 2004 		Wikinews-logo.svg الاسم: ويكي الأخبار
الوصف: صحيفة أونلاين
الموقع: www.wikinews.org
الإطلاق: 8 نوفمبر، 2004
ترتيب ألكسا: 69,738 (عالمية، April 2021)[41]
Wikiversity logo 2017.svg الاسم: ويكي الجامعة
الوصف: مجموعة من البرامج التعليمية والدورات التدريبية، بينما تعمل أيضًا كنقطة استضافة لتنسيق البحث
الموقع: www.wikiversity.org
الإطلاق: 15 أغسطس، 2006
ترتيب ألكسا: 30,973 (عالمية، April 2021)[42] 		Wikidata-logo.svg الاسم: ويكي‌داتا
الوصف: قاعدة بيانات معرفية
الموقع: www.wikidata.org
الإطلاق: 30 أكتوبر، 2012
ترتيب ألكسا: 7,015 (عالمية، April 2021)[43]


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مشاريع البنية الأساسية والتنسيق

توجد عدة مشاريع إضافية لتوفير البنية الأساسية أو تنسيق مشاريع المعرفة المجانية. على سبيل المثال، يعطي Outreach إرشادات لأفضل الممارسات حول تشجيع استخدام مواقع ويكيميديا. وتشمل هذه:

Wikimedia Community Logo.svg الاسم: ميتا-ويكي
الوصف: موقع مركزي لتنسيق جميع المشاريع و مجتمع ويكيميديا
الموقع: meta.wikimedia.org
الإطلاق: 9 نوفمبر، 2001 		Incubator-logo.svg الاسم: حاضنة ويكيميديا
الوصف: لنسخات اللغة قيد التطوير
الموقع: incubator.wikimedia.org
الإطلاق: 2 يونيو، 2006
MediaWiki-2020-icon.svg الاسم: ميدياويكي
الوصف: يساعد في تنسيق العمل على برنامج ميدياويكي
الموقع: www.mediawiki.org
الإطلاق: 25 يناير، 2002 		Wikitech-2021-blue-large-icon.svg الاسم: ويكي‌تك
المعروف بـ: Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)، عُرفت سابقاً باسم "مختبرات ويكيميديا"
الوصف: المشاريع التقنية والبنية الأساسية
الموقع: wikitech.wikimedia.org
الإطلاق: 10 يونيو، 2004

الشركات التابعة

للمزيد من المعلومات: تيار ويكيميديا and قائمة أقسام ويكيميديا

الشركات التابعة لويكيميديا هي مجموعات مستقلة، لكنها معترف بها رسمياً، تهدف إلى العمل معاً لدعم حركة ويكيميديا والمساهمة فيها. وافق مجلس أمناء مؤسسة ويكيميديا على ثلاثة نماذج نشطة للشركات التابعة: الفصول ، والمنظمات الموضوعية ، ومجموعات المستخدمين. تهدف الشركات التابعة إلى تنظيم أنشطة والمشاركة فيها لدعم حركة ويكيميديا والمساهمة فيها، مثل المؤتمرات الإقليمية، والتوعية، و هاكاثون، العلاقات العامة، السياسة العامة المناصرة، مشاركة گلام، وويكيمانيا.[44][45][46]

تمت الموافقة على الاعتراف بالقسم والتنظيم الموضوعي من قبل مجلس المؤسسة. التوصيات بشأن الاعتراف بالأقسام والمنظمات الموضوعية مقدمة إلى مجلس إدارة المؤسسة بواسطة Affiliations Committee، المكونة من متطوعين من مجتمع ويكيميديا. توافق لجنة الانتماءات على الاعتراف بمجموعات المستخدمين الفردية. في حين أن الشركات التابعة معترف بها رسمياً من قبل مؤسسة ويكيميديا، فهي مستقلة عن مؤسسة ويكيميديا، دون أي سيطرة قانونية أو مسؤولية عن مشاريع ويكيميديا.[45][46][47]

بدأت المؤسسة في التعرف على الأقسام في عام 2004.[48] في عام 2010، بدأ تطوير نماذج إضافية. في عام 2012، وافقت المؤسسة على التنظيم المواضيعي ونماذج التعرف على مجموعة المستخدمين، وانتهت منها، واعتمدتها. تمت الموافقة أيضاً على نموذج إضافي، شركاء التيار، ولكن اعتبارا من 27 أكتوبر 2015 (2015-10-27)، لم يتم الانتهاء منه أو اعتماده بعد.[44][46][49]

ويكيمانيا

المقالة الرئيسية: ويكيمانيا

في كل عام، يجمع مؤتمر دولي يسمى ويكيمانيا الأشخاص المشتركين في منظمات ومشاريع ويكيميديا. عقدت ويكيمانيا الأولى في فرانكفورت، ألمانيا، في عام 2005. في الوقت الحاضر، يتم تنظيم ويكيمانيا من قبل لجنة مدعومة عادة من قبل الفرع الوطني، بالتعاون مع مؤسسة ويكيميديا. تم عقد ويكيمانيا في مدن مثل بوينس آيرس،[50] كمبردج،[51] حيفا،[52] هونگ كونگ،[53] ولندن.[54]في عام 2015، أقيمت ويكيمانيا في مدينة المكسيك،[55] في عام 2016 في إزينو لاريو، إيطاليا،[56] 2017 في مونتريال، 2018 في كيب تاون، و 2019 في ستوكهولم.

التقنية

تستخدم المؤسسة التكنولوجيا بما في ذلك الأجهزة والبرامج لتشغيل مشاريعها.

العتاد الصلب

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مخدمات مؤسسة ويكيميديا

استخدمت ويكيبيديا مخدماً واحداً حتى عام 2004، عندما تم توسيع إعداد المخدم إلى عمارة متعددة الطبقات.[57]

في يناير 2005، تم تشغيل المشروع على 39 مخدم مخصص[بحاجة لمصدر] في فلوريدا.[58] تضمن هذا التكوين مخدماً رئيسياً واحداً مخدم وب يعمل على ماي إس كيو إل، ومخدمات قاعدة بيانات متعددة، و 21 مخدم وب تشغل مخدم HTTP أپاتشي، وسبعة خوادم تخزين مؤقت سكويد.[بحاجة لمصدر]

بحلول ديسمبر 2009، عملت ويكيميديا على موقع مشترك، مع 300 خادم في فلوريدا و 44 خادماً في أمستردام.[59] في عام 2008، تحولت أيضاً من عدة شركات أنظمة تشغيل مختلفة لينكس إلى أبونتو لينكس.[60][61] منذ عام 2019، تحولت إلى دبيان.[62]

بحلول يناير 2013، انتقلت ويكيميديا إلى بنية تحتية أحدث في منشأة إكوينكس في أشبورن، ڤرجينيا، مشيرة إلى أسباب "اتصال أكثر موثوقية" و "عدد أقل من الأعاصير".[63][64]في السنوات السابقة، كانت مواسم الأعاصير سبباً للقلق.[58]

في أكتوبر 2013، بدأت مؤسسة ويكيميديا في البحث عن منشأة ثانية يمكن استخدامها جنباً إلى جنب مع المنشأة الرئيسية في أشبورن، مشيرة إلى أسباب التكرار (على سبيل المثال احتياطي الطوارئ) والاستعداد لخدمة مراكز البيانات المتعددة المتزامنة.[65][66] يأتي هذا بعد العام الذي تسبب فيه قطع الألياف في عدم توفر مشاريع ويكيميديا لمدة ساعة واحدة في أغسطس 2012.[67][68]

بصرف النظر عن المرفق الثاني للاحتياطي الذي تم طرحه على الإنترنت في عام 2014،[69][70]كان عدد المخدمات اللازمة لتشغيل البنية التحتية في منشأة واحدة مستقراً في الغالب منذ عام 2009. اعتباراً من نوفمبر 2015، تستضيف المنشأة الرئيسية في أشبورن إجمالياً 520 مخدماً، والتي تتضمن خوادم للخدمات الأحدث إلى جانب مشروع ويكيميديا ويكي، مثل الخدمات السحابية (Toolforge)، وخدمات متنوعة للمقاييس والمراقبة وإدارة النظام الأخرى.[71]

في عام 2017، نشرت مؤسسة ويكيميديا مجموعة التخزين المؤقت في منشأة إكوينكس في سنغافورة، وهي الأولى من نوعها في آسيا.[72]


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Software

The operation of Wikimedia depends on MediaWiki, a custom-made, free and open-source wiki software platform written in PHP and built upon the MariaDB database since 2013;[73] previously the MySQL database was used.[74] The software incorporates programming features such as a macro language, variables, a transclusion system for templates, and URL redirection. MediaWiki is licensed under the GNU General Public License and it is used by all Wikimedia projects, as well as many other wiki projects.

Originally, Wikipedia ran on UseModWiki written in Perl by Clifford Adams (Phase I), which initially required CamelCase for article hyperlinks; the present double bracket style was incorporated later. Starting in January 2002 (Phase II), Wikipedia began running on a PHP wiki engine with a MySQL database; this software was custom-made for Wikipedia by Magnus Manske. The Phase II software was repeatedly modified to accommodate the exponentially increasing demand. In July 2002 (Phase III), Wikipedia shifted to the third-generation software, MediaWiki, originally written by Lee Daniel Crocker.

Several MediaWiki extensions are installed to extend the functionality of MediaWiki software. In April 2005, an Apache Lucene extension[75][76] was added to MediaWiki's built-in search and Wikipedia switched from MySQL to Lucene and later switched to CirrusSearch which is based on Elasticsearch for searching.[77] The Wikimedia Foundation also uses CiviCRM[78] and WordPress.[79]

The foundation published official Wikipedia mobile apps for Android and iOS devices and in March 2015, the apps were updated to include mobile user-friendly features.[80]

Finances

In general

Financial development of the Wikimedia Foundation (in US$), 2003–2020
Black: Net assets (excluding Wikimedia Endowment, currently at $90m+)
Green: Revenue (excluding third-party donations to Wikimedia Endowment)
Red: Expenses (including WMF payments to Wikimedia Endowment)[81]

The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public contributions and grants to fund its mission.[82] It is exempt from federal income tax[82][83] and from state income tax.[82][84] It is not a private foundation, and contributions to it qualify as tax-deductible charitable contributions.[82] In 2007, 2008, and 2009, Charity Navigator gave Wikimedia an overall rating of three out of four possible stars,[85] increasing to four stars in 2010.[86] اعتبارا من يناير 2020, the rating was still four stars (overall score 98.14 out of 100), based on data from FY2018.[87]

The continued technical and economic growth of each of the Wikimedia projects is dependent mostly on donations, but the Wikimedia Foundation also increases its revenue by alternative means of funding such as grants, sponsorship, services and brand merchandising. The Wikimedia OAI-PMH update feed service, targeted primarily at search engines and similar bulk analysis and republishing, has been a source of revenue for several years,[82] but is no longer open to new customers.[88] DBpedia was given access to this feed free of charge.[89]

In July 2014, the foundation announced it would be accepting Bitcoin donations via digital currency exchange Coinbase, which waives its processing fees for non-profit organizations.[90]

Since the end of fiscal year ended 2004, the foundation's net assets grew from US$57,000[91] to US$53٫5 million at the end of fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.[92] Under the leadership of Sue Gardner, who joined the Wikimedia Foundation in 2007, the foundation's staff levels, number of donors and revenue saw very significant growth.[93] By 2020, the Foundation reported net assets of US$180 million from donations and grants and in 2021 announced plans to charge big tech companies for preferential access to Wikipedia content.[94]

Interview with Garfield Byrd, Chief of Finance and Administration at the Wikimedia Foundation. Recorded October 7, 2011.

Wikimedia Endowment

In January 2016, the foundation announced the creation of an endowment to ensure the continuity of the project in the future. The Wikimedia Endowment was established as a collective action fund at the Tides Foundation, with a stated goal to raise US$100 million in the next 10 years.[95] Craig Newmark was one of the initial donors, giving US$1 million to the endowment.[96]

The Foundation provided irrevocable grants of $5 million on June 29, 2016, and $5 million on June 27, 2017, to the Tides Foundation for the purpose of the Wikimedia Endowment.[97] Another $5 million was given in the fiscal year 2017–2018. The amounts were recorded as part of the expense for awards and grants of the foundation.[98]

In 2018, Amazon.com and Facebook gave US$1 million each and George Soros donated $2 million to the endowment.[99][100][101] In January 2019, Google donated $2 million to the endowment.[102] In 2019, Peter Baldwin and his wife, Lisbet Rausing, donated $3.5 million, bringing their total Endowment giving to $8.5 million; an initial $5 million was given in 2017.[103] In 2019, Craig Newmark Philanthropies donated an additional $2.5 million to the Endowment.[104] In October 2019 and in September 2020, Amazon donated $1 million to the Endowment.[105][106]

As of January 2021, five years after it was established, the endowment was reported to stand at more than US$90 million.[6]

Financial summary

Wikimedia financial data through June 2019 (fiscal years are July 1 – June 30)
Fiscal year Revenue Y/Y
(revenue) 		Expenses Y/Y
(expenses) 		Net assets Y/Y
(net assets)
2003–2004[107]
مستقر US$80,129
مستقر N/A
مستقر US$23,463
مستقر N/A
مستقر US$56,666
مستقر N/A
2004–2005[107]
▲ US$379,088
▲ 373.1%
▲ US$177,670
▲ 657.2%
▲ US$268,084
▲ 373.1%
2005–2006[107]
▲ US$1,528,039
▲ 303.1%
▲ US$791,907
▲ 345.7%
▲ US$1,004,216
▲ 274.6%
2006–2007[108]
▲ US$2,737,909
▲ 79.2%
▲ US$2,077,843
▲ 162.4%
▲ US$1,658,282
▲ 65.1%
2007–2008[109]
▲ US$7,060,610
▲ 157.8%
▲ US$3,540,724
▲ 70.4%
▲ US$5,178,168
▲ 212.3%
2008–2009[110]
▲ US$8,670,835
▲ 22.8%
▲ US$5,617,236
▲ 58.6%
▲ US$8,231,767
▲ 59.0%
2009–2010[111]
▲ US$16٬577٬757
▲ 91.2%
▲ US$10,266,793
▲ 82.8%
▲ US$14,542,731
▲ 76.7%
2010–2011[112]
▲ US$27,539,207
▲ 66.1%
▲ US$17,889,794
▲ 74.2%
▲ US$24,192,144
▲ 66.3%
2011–2012[113]
▲ US$39,997,566
▲ 45.2%
▲ US$29,260,652
▲ 63.6%
▲ US$34,929,058
▲ 44.4%
2012–2013[114]
▲ US$45,964,862
▲ 14.9%
▲ US$35,704,796
▲ 22.0%
▲ US$45,189,124
▲ 29.4%
2013–2014[115]
▲ US$54,186,642
▲ 17.9%
▲ US$45,900,745
▲ 28.6%
▲ US$53,475,021
▲ 18.3%
2014–2015[115]
▲ US$76,942,059
▲ 42.0%
▲ US$52,596,782
▲ 14.6%
▲ US$77,820,298
▲ 45.5%
2015–2016[116]
▲ US$79,909,962
▲ 3.9%
▲ US$65,947,465
▲ 25.4%
▲ US$91,782,795
▲ 17.9%
2016–2017[97]
▲ US$90,984,160
▲ 13.9%
▲ US$69,136,758
▲ 4.8%
▲ US$113,330,197
▲ 23.5%
2017–2018[98]
▲ US$103,061,638
▲ 13.3%
▲ US$81,442,265
▲ 17.8%
▲ US$134,949,570
▲ 19.1%
2018–2019[81]
▲ US$122,105,865
▲ 18.5%
▲ US$91,414,010
▲ 12.3%
▲ US$165,641,425
▲ 22.7%
2019–2020[5]
▲ US$127,163,697
▲ 4.1%
▲ US$112,489,397
▲ 23.1%
▲ US$180,315,725
▲ 8.9%

Expenses from the 2015–2016 financial year onwards include payments to the endowment.[5]

Expenses

The Wikimedia Foundation expenses mainly concern salaries, wages and other professional operating and services.[117] Payments to the Wikimedia Endowment are also classified as expenses in the Wikimedia Foundation's financial statements.[81]

Grants

Wikimedia Foundation and chapters finance meeting 2012, Paris

In 2008, the foundation received a US$40,000 grant by the Open Society Institute to create a printable version of Wikipedia.[118] It also received a US$262,000 grant by the Stanton Foundation to purchase hardware,[119] a US$500,000 unrestricted grant by Vinod and Neeru Khosla,[120] who later that year joined the foundation advisory board,[121] US$177,376 from the historians Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin foundation (Arcadia Fund), among others.[119] In March 2008, the foundation announced a large donation, at the time its largest donation yet: a three-year, US$3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[122]

In 2009, the foundation received four grants – the first grant was a US$890,000 Stanton Foundation grant which was aimed to help study and simplify user interface for first-time authors of Wikipedia.[123] The second was a US$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.[124] In August 2009, the foundation received a US$500,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.[125] Lastly, in August 2009, the Omidyar Network committed up to US$2 million over two years to Wikimedia.[126]

In 2010, Google donated US$2 million to the foundation.[127] The Stanton Foundation granted $1.2 million to fund the Public Policy Initiative, a pilot program for what would later become the Wikipedia Education Program (and the spinoff Wiki Education Foundation).[128][129][130] Also in 2010, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation pledged a US$800,000 grant and all was funded during 2011.[بحاجة لمصدر]

In March 2011, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation authorized another US$3 million grant to continue to develop and maintain the foundation's mission. The grant was to be funded over three years with the first US$1 million funded in July 2011 and the remaining US$2 million was scheduled to be funded in August 2012 and 2013. As a major donor, Doron Weber from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gained Board Visitor status at the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.[131] In August 2011, the Stanton Foundation pledged to fund a US$3٫6 million grant of which US$1٫8 million was funded and the remainder was due to be funded in September 2012. As of 2011, this was the largest grant received by the Wikimedia Foundation to-date.[132] In November 2011, the foundation received a US$500,000 donation from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation.[133][134]

In 2012, the foundation was awarded a grant of US$1٫25 million from the historians Lisbet Rausing[133] and Peter Baldwin through Charities Aid Foundation, scheduled to be funded in five equal installments. The first installment of US$250,000 was received in April 2012 and the remaining were to be funded in December 2012 through 2015. In 2014, the foundation received the largest single gift in its history, a $5 million unrestricted donation from an anonymous donor supporting $1 million worth of expenses annually for the next five years.[135] In March 2012, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a foundation established by Intel co-founder and his wife, awarded a US$449,636 grant to develop Wikidata.[136]

Between 2014 and 2015, the foundation received US$500,000 from Monarch Fund, US$100,000 from Arcadia Fund and an undisclosed amount by Stavros Niarchos Foundation to support the Wikipedia Zero initiative.[137][138][139]

In 2015, a grant agreement was reached with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to build a search engine called the "Knowledge Engine".[140][141]

In 2017, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded another US$3 million grant for a three-year period.[131]

The following have donated a total of US$500,000 or more, each (2008–2019):

Total
(US$000s) 		Donor Years
9,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2008–2013
  • 2017–2019
5,952 Stanton Foundation 2009–2012
5,000 (anonymous) 2014–2018
2,000 Omidyar Network 2009–2010
2,000 Google 2010
1,527 Rausing, Baldwin
via Arcadia, Charities Aid
  • 2008
  • 2012–2015
1,300 Hewlett 2009–2010
500 Sergey Brin and wife 2010
500 Monarch Foundation 2014–2015

Governance

Board of trustees

The foundation's board of trustees has ultimate authority in all the businesses and affairs of the foundation. Since 2008 it has been composed of ten members:

  • three who are selected by the community encompassed by all the different Wikimedia projects;
  • two who are selected by Wikimedia affiliates (chapters, thematic organizations and user groups);
  • four who are appointed by the board itself;
  • one emeritus position for the community's founder, Jimmy Wales.[142][143]

Three permanent entities support the board on its mission and responsibilities: an executive director, who leads and oversees the operational arm of the foundation; an advisory board composed of individuals selected by the board itself that advise the board on different matters; and standing committees to which the board delegates certain matters while retaining ultimate authority. The board has also at times created other entities to support itself, such as executive secretaries and ad hoc committees established for specific tasks.

اعتبارا من 2020 the board comprises María Sefidari as chairman and Nataliia Tymkiv as vice-chairman, together with Tanya Capuano, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Dariusz Jemielniak as members at-large, James Heilman (appointed as a community-selected trustee in August 2017),[144] CEO of Gizmodo Media Group Raju Narisetti (appointed in October 2017),[145] Bahraini human rights activist and blogger Esra'a Al Shafei (appointed in November 2017),[146] Lisa Lewin, and Jimmy Wales[147] as the "Community Founder Trustee".[143]

In a high-profile decision of 2015, James Heilman was removed from the board,[148][149] with little explanation.[148] (He returned in the board in August 2017).[150][مطلوب توضيح] In January 2016, Arnnon Geshuri briefly joined the board before stepping down amid controversy about a "no poach" agreement he executed when at Google, which violated United States antitrust law and for which the participating companies paid US$415 million in a class action suit on behalf of affected employees.[151][152]

Advisory board

The advisory board, according to the Wikimedia Foundation, is an international network of experts who have agreed to give the foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach.[153]

Appointed members for the period from June 16, 2017, to June 30, 2018, were:[154][needs update?]

Staff

Group photo of Wikimedia Foundation staff in January 2019

First appointments

In 2004, the foundation appointed Tim Starling as developer liaison to help improve the MediaWiki software, Daniel Mayer as chief financial officer (finance, budgeting, and coordination of fund drives), and Erik Möller as content partnership coordinator. In May 2005, the foundation announced seven more official appointments.[155]

In January 2006, the foundation created several committees, including the Communication Committee, in an attempt to further organize activities essentially handled by volunteers at that time.[156] Starling resigned that month to spend more time on his PhD program.

Employees

The foundation's functions were, for the first few years, executed almost entirely by volunteers. In 2005, it had only two employees, Danny Wool, a coordinator, and Brion Vibber, a software manager.

اعتبارا من 4 أكتوبر 2006 (2006-10-04), the foundation had five paid employees:[157] two programmers, an administrative assistant, a coordinator handling fundraising and grants, and an interim executive director,[158] Brad Patrick, previously the foundation's general counsel. Patrick ceased his activity as interim director in January 2007, and then resigned from his position as legal counsel, effective April 1, 2007. He was replaced by Mike Godwin, who served as general counsel and legal coordinator from July 2007[159] until 2010.

In January 2007, Carolyn Doran was named chief operating officer and Sandy Ordonez joined as head of communications.[160] Doran began working as a part-time bookkeeper in 2006 after being sent by a temporary agency. Doran, found to have had a long criminal record,[161] left the foundation in July 2007, and Sue Gardner was hired as consultant and special advisor (later CEO). Doran's departure from the organization was cited by Florence Devouard as one of the reasons the foundation took about seven months to release its fiscal 2007 financial audit.[162]

Exterior view of the previous Wikimedia Foundation's San Francisco headquarters at New Montgomery St in 2014

Danny Wool, officially the grant coordinator but also largely involved in fundraising and business development, resigned in March 2007. He accused Wales of misusing the foundation's funds for recreational purposes, and said that Wales had his Wikimedia credit card taken away in part because of his spending habits, a claim Wales denied.[163] In February 2007, the foundation added a new position, chapters coordinator, and hired Delphine Ménard,[164] who had been occupying the position as a volunteer since August 2005. Cary Bass was hired in March 2007 in the position of volunteer coordinator. Oleta McHenry was brought in as accountant in May 2007, through a temporary placement agency and made the official full-time accountant in August 2007. In January 2008, the foundation appointed Veronique Kessler as the new chief financial and operating officer, Kul Wadhwa as head of business development, and Jay Walsh as head of communications.

اعتبارا من 19 ديسمبر 2019 (2019-12-19) the foundation had more than 350 employees and contractors.[8]

Independent contractors

Among firms regularly listed as independent contractors in the Wikimedia Foundation's Form 990 disclosures are the Jones Day law firm and the PR firm Minassian Media; the latter was founded by Craig Minassian, a full-time executive at the Clinton Foundation.[165][166]

The Wikimedia Foundation has also benefited from the strategic consulting services of williamsworks, a consultancy established by Whitney Williams, former Trip Director for Hillary Clinton.[167][168][169]

Disputes and lawsuits

المقالة الرئيسية: Litigation involving the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation post-SOPA party, 2012

Many disputes have resulted in litigation[170][171][172][173] while others have not.[174] Attorney Matt Zimmerman stated, "Without strong liability protection, it would be difficult for Wikipedia to continue to provide a platform for user-created encyclopedia content."[175]

In December 2011, the foundation hired Washington, D.C., lobbyist Dow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC to lobby the United States Congress with regard to "Civil Rights/Civil Liberties" and "Copyright/Patent/Trademark."[176] At the time of the hire the Foundation was concerned specifically about a bill known as the Stop Online Piracy Act.[177]

In October 2013, a German Court ruled that the Wikimedia Foundation can be held liable for content added to Wikipedia – however, this applies only when there has been a specific complaint; otherwise, the Wikimedia Foundation does not check any of the content published on Wikipedia and has no duty to do so.[178]

In June 2014, a copyright infringement lawsuit was filed by Bildkonst Upphovsrätt i Sverige against Wikimedia Sweden.[179]

On June 20, 2014, a defamation lawsuit (Law Division civil case No. L-1400-14) involving Wikipedia editors was filed with the Mercer County Superior Court in New Jersey seeking, inter alia, compensatory and punitive damages.[180][181]

In a March 10, 2015, op-ed for The New York Times, Wales and Tretikov announced the foundation was filing a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and five other government agencies and officials, including the DOJ, calling into question its practice of mass surveillance, which they argued infringed the constitutional rights of the foundation's readers, editors and staff. They were joined in the suit by eight additional plaintiffs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.[182][183][184] On October 23, 2015, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed the suit Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA on grounds of standing. U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis III ruled that the plaintiffs could not plausibly prove they were subject to upstream surveillance, and that their argument is "riddled with assumptions", "speculations" and "mathematical gymnastics".[185][186] The plaintiffs filed an appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on February 17, 2016.[187]

In February 2016, Lila Tretikov announced her resignation as executive director, as a result of the WMF's controversial Knowledge Engine project and disagreements with the staff.[188][189]

Controversies

Obtrusive fundraising

During the 2015 fundraising campaign, some members of the community voiced their concerns about the fundraising banners. They argued that they were obtrusive for users and that they could be deceiving potential donors by giving the perception that Wikipedia had immediate financial issues, which was not the case. The Wikimedia Foundation vowed to improve wording on further fundraising campaigns to avoid these issues.[190]

Removal of community-appointed trustee

انظر أيضاً: James Heilman

In June 2015, James Heilman was elected by the community to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.[191] In December 2015, the board removed Heilman from his position as a trustee,[192][193] a decision that generated substantial controversy amongst members of the Wikipedia community.[148] A statement released by the board declared the lack of confidence of his fellow trustees in him as the reasons for his ouster. Heilman later stated that he "was given the option of resigning [by the Board] over the last few weeks. As a community elected member I see my mandate as coming from the community which elected me and thus declined to do so. I saw such a move as letting down those who elected me."[194] He subsequently pointed out that while on the Board, he had pushed for greater transparency regarding the Wikimedia Foundation's controversial Knowledge Engine project and its financing,[195] and indicated that his attempts to make public the Knight Foundation grant for the engine had been a factor in his dismissal.[196]

The volunteer community re-elected him to the Wikimedia Foundation board in 2017.[150]

Knowledge Engine

المقالة الرئيسية: Knowledge Engine (Wikimedia Foundation)

Knowledge Engine was a search engine project initiated in 2015 by the WMF to locate and display verifiable and trustworthy information on the Internet.[197] The goal of the KE was to be less reliant on traditional search engines and it was funded with a US$250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation.[198] The project was perceived as a scandal, mainly because it was conceived in secrecy, which was perceived as a conflict with the Wikimedia community's transparency. In fact, most of the information available to the community was received through leaked documents published by The Signpost in 2016.[199][197]

Following this controversy, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Lila Tretikov resigned.[200]

Excessive spending

Wikimedia Foundation's expenses evolution by rubrics in USD

Wales was confronted with allegations that the WMF had "a miserable cost/benefit ratio and for years now has spent millions on software development without producing anything that actually works".[150] Wales acknowledged in 2014 that he had "been frustrated as well about the endless controversies about the rollout of inadequate software not developed with sufficient community consultation and without proper incremental rollout to catch show-stopping bugs".[150]

Wikimedia Foundation's expenses percentage
Wikimedia Foundation's expenses percentage

In February 2017, an op-ed published by The Signpost, the English Wikipedia's online newspaper, titled Wikipedia has Cancer[201][202] produced a heated debate both in the Wikipedian community and the wider public. The author criticized the Wikimedia Foundation for its ever-increasing annual spending which, he argued, could put the project at financial risk should an unexpected event happen. The author proposed to put a cap on spending, build up its existing endowment, and restructure the endowment so that the WMF cannot dip into the principal when times get bad. Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Katherine Maher, responded by pointing out that such an endowment was already created in 2016, confusing creating an endowment with building up an existing endowment.[203]

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