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| The '''Wikimedia Foundation''' is the parent organization of ], ] and ]. It is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of ] and its existence was officially announced by ] CEO ] on ], ]. The name "Wikimedia" was coined by ] in a ] mailing list post and was secured for the |
The '''Wikimedia Foundation''' is the parent organization of ], ] and ]. It is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of ] and its existence was officially announced by ] CEO ] on ], ]. The name "Wikimedia" was coined by ] in a ] mailing list post and the domain name http://wikimedia.org was secured for the then future Foundation by ] (Misplaced Pages user "maveric149"). | ||
| The goals of the foundation are to spur growth and development of a set of ], ]-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge and without advertising. The Foundation will also manage the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content). In addition to an already very large multilanguage ] and ] named Misplaced Pages, there is a translating ] and ] named Wiktionary and plans to start a project to build ]s. | The goals of the foundation are to spur growth and development of a set of ], ]-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge and without advertising. The Foundation will also manage the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content). In addition to an already very large multilanguage ] and ] named Misplaced Pages, there is a translating ] and ] named Wiktionary and plans to start a project to build ]s. | ||
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of Misplaced Pages, Wiktionary and Nupedia. It is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of Florida and its existence was officially announced by Bomis CEO Jimbo Wales on June 20, 2003. The name "Wikimedia" was coined by Sheldon Rampton in a WikiEN-l mailing list post and the domain name http://wikimedia.org was secured for the then future Foundation by Daniel Mayer (Misplaced Pages user "maveric149").
The goals of the foundation are to spur growth and development of a set of open content, WikiWiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge and without advertising. The Foundation will also manage the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content). In addition to an already very large multilanguage encyclopedia and almanac named Misplaced Pages, there is a translating dictionary and thesaurus named Wiktionary and plans to start a project to build textbooks.
With the Foundation's announcement, Wales also transferred ownership of all Misplaced Pages, Wiktionary and Nupedia domain names to Wikimedia along with the copyrights for all materials related to these projects that were created by Bomis employees or Wales himself. The computer equipment used to run all the Wikimedia projects is still the property of Bomis but Wales mentioned the possibility of transferring these assets to the Foundation in the near future.
Wales previously mentioned on several occasions that bandwidth and power will continue to be provided by Bomis free of charge for these projects. It is hoped that the existence of the non-profit foundation will make it possible to generate enough revenue through donations and grants to ensure the continued growth of each of the Wikimedia projects.