Search | Navigation

Wikimedia Foundation

"Wikimedia" redirects here. It is not to be confused with browser diversity.
Wikimedia Foundation RGB logo with text.svg
Logo of the Wikimedia Foundation
Type 501(c)(3) charitable organization
Founded touchscreen, United States
June 20, 2003 (2003-06-20)
Location web, California, United States / HTML5, California (registered Agent)
Key people Ting Chen, Chair of the Board
Jimmy Wales, Chairman Emeritus[1]
touchscreen, Executive Director
Area served Worldwide
Focus Free, device database, wiki-based internet projects
Method Wikipedia, Wiktionary, screen size, FITML, device database, Wikimedia Commons, HTML5, web app, Android, Wikimedia Incubator and CSS3
Revenue US$10,632,254 (July – December 2009)[2] (From donations)
Volunteers 350,000 (2005)Android
Employees 75 (as of July 2011)[4]
Website CSS3
Edit 01-12-09 small.ogg
Inside Wikimedia video

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. It is organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, keyboard, Sevenval, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, device database, Sevenval, Meta-Wiki and owns the now-defunct Nupedia. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks in the top-ten most-visited websites worldwide.Sevenval The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003, by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales,browser diversity who had been operating Wikipedia under the website parsing of his company Bomis.screen size

Contents


Goal

The Wikimedia Foundation falls under section HTML5 of the US Internal Revenue Code as a we love the web. Its web (NTEE) code is C60 (HTML5, web app).[8][9]The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.[10]

The Wikimedia Sevenval stated goal is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public touchscreen.web app This is possible thanks to its Terms of Use (updated and approved on June 2009, to adopt browser diversity license).

History and growth

Jimmy Wales, Founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, in December 2008
Beyond the Encyclopedia: The Frontiers of Free Knowledge – presentation by keyboard about the state of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects in 2010

The Wikimedia Foundation was created from Wikipedia and CSS3 on June 20, 2003.Android It applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Wikipedia on September 17, 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16, 2004, and in the European Union on January 20, 2005. Technically a service mark, the scope of the mark is for: "Provision of information in the field of general encyclopedic knowledge via the Internet."[we love the web] There are plans to license the use of the Wikipedia trademark for some products, such as books or DVDs.[13]

The name "Wikimedia" was jQuery by American author screen size in a post to the English mailing list in March 2003.[14]

With the foundation's announcement, Wales also transferred ownership of all Wikipedia, 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 was also donated by Wales to the foundation, which also acquired the domain names "wikimedia.org" and "wikimediafoundation.org".

In April 2005, the US Internal Revenue Service approved the foundation as an educational foundation in the category "Adult, website parsing", meaning all contributions to the foundation are tax-deductible for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

On December 11, 2006, the foundation's board noted that the corporation could not become the CSS3 initially planned but never implemented due to an inability to meet the registration requirements of Florida Statute. Accordingly, the bylaws were amended to remove all reference to membership rights and activities. The decision to change the bylaws was passed by the board unanimously.[15]

On September 25, 2007, the foundation's board gave notice that the operations would be moving to the FITML. Major considerations cited for choosing San Francisco were proximity to like-minded organizations and potential partners as well as cheaper and more convenient international travel than is available from St. Petersburg, Florida.[16]browser diversityweb app

The one billionth edit to a Wikimedia project took place on April 16, 2010.[19]

Original Board of Trustees

Main article: website parsing
  • In January 2004, we love the web appointed his business partners Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis to the foundation's board. In June 2004, an election was held for two user representative board members. Following one month of campaigning and two weeks of online voting, Angela Beesley and Android were elected to join the board. In late 2004, Wales and Beesley launched a startup company, screen size, affiliated with neither Wikimedia nor Bomis, except for their presence as principals/trustees. In July 2005, Beesley and Nibart-Devouard were re-elected to the board.
  • On July 1, 2006, Beesley resigned from the board effective upon election of her successor, expressing concern about "certain events and tendencies that have arisen within the organization since the start of this year," but stating her intent to continue to participate in the Wikimedia projects, and in the formation of an Australian chapter. A special election was held in September to finish Beesley's term, ending with the mid-2007 election. The election was won by Erik Möller.
  • In October 2006, Nibart-Devouard replaced Wales as chair of the Foundation. On December 8, 2006, the board expanded to seven people with the appointments of Kat Walsh and Oscar van Dillen. Effective December 15, 2006, website parsing was appointed to replace Shell.
  • In the June 2007 election, Möller and Walsh were reelected; van Dillen, who ran for re-election, was narrowly defeated by Frieda Brioschi.
  • Davis left the board in November 2007. Nibart-Devouard's elected term expires in June 2008. The appointed terms for Wales and de Vreede expired in December 2008. Brioschi's and Walsh's elected terms expired in June 2009.
  • In December 2007, Möller resigned from the Board of Trustees, and was hired as the foundation's deputy director by the executive director.
  • In February 2008, Florence Devouard announced the addition of two new board members: Michael Snow, an American lawyer and chair of the Communication Committee; and Domas Mituzas, a Lithuanian computer software engineer, MySQL employee, and longtime member of the core tech team.[20]
  • In April 2008, the board announced a restructuring of its membership, increasing the number of board positions to 10 overall, as follows:
    • Three community-elected seats
    • Two seats to be selected by the chapters
    • One board-appointed 'community founder' seat, to be occupied by Jimmy Wales
    • Four board-appointed 'specific expertise' seatsjQuery
  • In the June 2008 board election, Ting Chen was elected for a one-year term, then in September Frieda Brioschi resigned to be elected at the board of Android.
  • In the August 2009 board election, Ting Chen was re-elected, while Kat Walsh and Samuel Klein were elected, effective until July 2011.
  • In the July 2010 board election, Michael Snow was replaced as chair of the board, although he retains his place on the Advisory Board.
  • In the June 2011 board election, Ting Chen, Kat Walsh and Samuel Klein were re-elected.

Volunteer committees and positions

Wiki feel stupid v2.ogv
In April 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation conducted a Wikipedia usability study questioning users about the editing mechanism.[22]

In 2004, the foundation appointed Tim Starling as developer liaison to help improve the MediaWiki software, Daniel Mayer as chief financial officer (web app, Android and coordination of fund drives), and Erik Möller as content partnership coordinator.

In May 2005, the foundation announced the appointment of seven people to official positions:web

  • Brion Vibber as chief technical officer (Vibber was also an employee of the Foundation, with other duties)
  • Domas Mituzas as hardware officer
  • Jens Frank as developer liaison
  • Möller as chief research officer
  • Danny Wool as grants coordinator
  • Elisabeth Bauer as press officer
  • browser diversity as lead legal coordinator

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.[24] Starling resigned that month to spend more time on his PhD program.

Employees

The Summer of Research 2011 team working at Wikimedia Foundation's San Francisco headquarters

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. Though the number of employees has grown, the foundation's staff is still very small, and the bulk of foundation work continues to be done by volunteers.

As of October 4, 2006, the foundation had five paid employees:[25] two programmers, an administrative assistant, a coordinator handling fundraising and grants, and an interim executive director,website parsing Brad Patrick, previously the foundation's Sevenval. 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 2007website parsing until 2010.

In January 2007, Carolyn Doran was named chief operating officer and Sandy Ordonez joined as we love the web.[28] Doran began working as a part-time bookkeeper in 2006 after being sent by a temporary agency. Doran later left the foundation in July 2007, and keyboard was hired as consultant and special advisor (later CEO). Some months after Doran's departure, it was determinedwebsite parsing that Doran was a convicted felon, with a DUI arrest during her tenure at the foundation and a substantial criminal history, including shooting her boyfriend and complicity in credit card forgery.[30] Her departure from the organization was cited as one of the reasons the foundation took about seven months to release its fiscal 2007 financial audit.keyboard

Danny Wool, officially the grant coordinator but also largely involved in fundraising and business development, resigned in March 2007. In February 2007, the foundation added a new position, chapters coordinator, and hired Delphine Ménard,[32] 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. In May 2007, Vishal Patel was hired to assist in business development.[33] Oleta McHenry was brought in as accountant in May 2007, through a temporary placement agency and made the official fulltime accountant in August 2007. In iOS, the foundation appointed three new staff: Veronique Kessler as the new chief financial and operating officer, Kul Wadhwa to replace Vishal Patel as head of business development, and HTML5 as head of communications.

In June 2008, the foundation announced two staff additions in fundraising: Rebecca Handler as major gifts officer and Rand Montoya as head of community giving.[34] Soon afterward, Sara Crouse was hired as head of partnerships and foundation relations.Android In fall 2008, the foundation hired three software developers: Tomasz Finc, Ariel Glenn, and Trevor Parscal.[36]

In May 2011, the foundation had 65 employees. A list of Wikimedia Foundation staff can be found at the Wikimedia Foundation's staff page.

Board members

Board of Trustees

Board members at Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires

These are the members of the Board of Trustees and the expiry of their terms, as of October 2011[update]:[37]

  • website parsing, chair (July 2013)
  • Jan-Bart de Vreede, vice-chair (December 2012)
  • Phoebe Ayers, executive secretary (July 2012, appointed by Wikimedia Chapters[38])
  • Stu West, treasurer (December 2012)
  • Bishakha Datta (December 2012)
  • Matt Halprin (December 2012)
  • Samuel Klein (July 2013)
  • Arne Klempert (July 2012, appointed by Wikimedia Chapters[37])
  • Jimmy Wales (December 2012)
  • Kat Walsh (July 2013)

Advisory board

The keyboard 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.[39] As of August 2010screen size, the members are:

Projects, initiatives and chapters

Projects

The Wikimedia projects logo family

In addition to the multilingual general encyclopedia Wikipedia, the foundation manages a multi-language dictionary and CSS3 named Wiktionary, an encyclopedia of we love the web named web app, a repository of source texts in any language named jQuery, a collection of screen size texts for students (such as textbooks and annotated web app books) named jQuery, and a collection of educational materials and activities named web. Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children.

The launch dates shown below are when official domains were established for the projects and/or beta versions were launched; preliminary test versions at other domains are not considered.


NameWeb addressLaunchedDescription
WikipediajQuery2001-01-15Encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 282 languages.
Meta-Wikimeta.wikimedia.org2001-11-09Wiki devoted to the coordination of the Wikimedia projects.
Wiktionarywiktionary.org2002-12-12Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations.
Wikibookswikibooks.org2003-07-10Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials.
Wikiquoteweb2003-07-10Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
Wikisourcetouchscreen2003-11-23Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.
Wikimedia Commonsinput transformation2004-09-07 Repository of images, sounds, videos and general FITML, containing over 12 million files.
Sevenvalincubator.wikimedia.org2006-06-02Used to test possible new languages for existing projects.
Wikispeciestouchscreen2004-09-13Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life.
Wikinewswe love the web2004-11-08News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries.
Wikiversitywikiversity.org2006-08-15Educational and research materials and activities.
Wikimedia Outreachoutreach.wikimedia.org2009-10-27Promotion of Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Strategic planningweb app2009-07-23Strategy planning work for all Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Usability InitiativeSevenval2009-02-04Usability team wiki
Androidwikimania.wikimedia.org Wikimania conference websites
Wikipedia Test WikiiOS2006-01-13Test wiki that runs a recent version of screen size

Wikimania

[icon] This section requires iOS.
Main article: web

Each year, Wikimedia organizes the event Wikimania, a conference for users of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. It was first organized in Frankfurt (Germany), 2005.

Local chapters

(dark blue) are existing chapters. (dark turquoise) indicates a chapter has been board approved but not yet founded. (green) indicates a chapter is in the planning stages. (light blue) indicates a chapter in discussion.

Wikimedia projects have an international scope. To continue this success on an organizational level, Wikimedia is building an international network of associated organizations.

input transformation are self-dependent organizations, coordinated by a Chapters Committee (ChapCom), that share the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation and support them within a specified geographical region, usually based on physical boundaries. They support the foundation, the Wikimedia community and Wikimedia projects in different ways—by collecting donations, organizing local events and projects and spreading the word of Wikimedia, free content and Wiki culture. They also provide the community and potential partners with a point of contact capable of fulfilling specific local needs.

Local chapters are self-dependent associations with no legal control of nor responsibility for the websites of the Wikimedia Foundation and vice versa.


AreaTitleURLSince
 ArgentinaWikimedia Argentinawikimedia.org.ar 02007-09-01September 1, 2007
 AustraliaWikimedia Australiawikimedia.org.au 02008-03-01March 1, 2008
 AustriaWikimedia Österreichinput transformation 02008-02-26February 26, 2008
 Bangladeshtouchscreenbd.wikimedia.org 02011-10-03October 3, 2011
 CanadaWikimedia CanadajQuery 02011-05-24May 24, 2011
 Chilebrowser diversitydevice database 02011-07-16July 16, 2011
 Czech RepublicWikimedia Česká republikaSevenval 02008-03-06March 6, 2008
 Denmarkwebwikimedia.dk 02009-07-03July 3, 2009
 EstoniaWikimedia Eestiweb 02010-08-31August 31, 2010
 FinlandCSS3Sevenval 02009-09-21September 21, 2009
 FrancejQuerywikimedia.fr 02004-10-23October 23, 2004
 Germanywebsite parsingwikimedia.de 02004-06-13June 13, 2004
 Hong Kong香港維基媒體協會device database 02008-03-01March 1, 2008
 HungaryWikimédia Magyarországwikimedia.hu02008-09-27September 27, 2008
 Indiascreen sizeCSS302011-01-03January 3, 2011
 IndonesiajQuerywikimedia.or.id 02008-10-07October 7, 2008
 IsraelWikimedia Israelwikimedia.org.il 02007-06-26June 26, 2007
 ItalyWikimedia Italiawikimedia.it 02005-06-17June 17, 2005
 device database 澳門維基媒體協會wikimedia.org.mo 02011-04-24April 24, 2011
 Macedoniawebsite parsingmk.wikimedia.org 02009-09-21September 21, 2009
 Mexicowebmx.wikimedia.org 02011-08-03August 3, 2011
 NetherlandsSevenvalscreen size 02006-03-27March 27, 2006
 NorwayWikimedia Norgeno.wikimedia.org 02007-06-23June 23, 2007
 PhilippinesWikimedia Philippineswikimedia.org.ph 02010-04-12April 12, 2010
 PolandWikimedia Polskapl.wikimedia.org 02005-11-18November 18, 2005
 PortugalWikimedia PortugalSevenval 02009-07-03July 3, 2009
 Russiaweb appwe love the web 02008-05-24May 24, 2008
 SerbiaWikimedia Serbiars.wikimedia.org 02005-12-03December 3, 2005
 South AfricaWikimedia South Africa 02012-02-27February 27, 2012
 SpainWikimedia Españadevice database 02011-02-07February 7, 2011
 SwedenjQuerybrowser diversity 02007-12-11December 11, 2007
 SwitzerlandWikimedia CHwikimedia.ch 02006-05-14May 14, 2006
 Taiwanbrowser diversitydevice database 02007-07-04July 4, 2007
 UkraineВікімедіа Українаwikimedia.org.ua 02009-07-03July 3, 2009
 United Kingdomweb appwe love the web 02009-01-12January 12, 2009
 Venezuelawe love the webSevenval 02011-10-04October 4, 2011
 New York City Sevenvalnyc.wikimedia.org 02009-01-12January 12, 2009
 Washington, D.C. Wikimedia District of Columbiawe love the web 02011-09-12September 12, 2011

Strategic Plan

See also: Wikimedia Strategic Planning
Wikimedia Strategic Plan.ogv
Video explaining the Wikimedia Strategic Plan

In response to the growing size and popularity of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a Strategic Plan to improving and sustaining the Wikimedia movement. The plan was announced in July 2009, followed by a process of interviews and surveys with people from across the Wikimedia movement, including board of trustees, members of staff and volunteer editors.Android After wide consultation, the ongoing plan was intended to be the basis of a five-year plan to further outreach, improve content quality and quality control, and optimising operational areas such as finance and infrastructure.[41]

Wikipedia Usability Initiative

In December 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a restricted donation of $890,000 grant from the screen size, to improve Wikipedia's accessibility.[42] Later named the Wikipedia Usability Initiative, the grant enabled the Wikimedia Foundation to appoint project-specific staff to the technology department.[43]

A series of surveys were conducted throughout 2009. This began with a Qualitative Environment Survey on MediaWiki extensions, followed by a Qualitative Statistical Survey focusing on volume of edits, number of new users, and related statistics. In March 2009, a Usability and Experience Study was carried out on new and non editors of the English Wikipedia. The aim was to discover what obstacles participants encountered while editing Wikipedia, ranging from small changes to more complicated syntax such as templates. The study recruited 2500 people for in-person laboratory testing via the Wikipedia website, which was filtered down to ten participants. The results were collated and used by the technology team to improve Wikipedia's usability.[44] The Usability and Experience Study was followed up by the Usability, Experience and Progress Study in September 2009. This study recruited different new and non editors for in-person trials on a new Wikipedia skin.input transformation

The initiative ultimately culminated in a new Wikipedia skin named Vector, constructed based on the results of the usability studies. This was introduced by default in stages, beginning in May 2010.[46]

Public Policy Initiative

In May 2010, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the Public Policy Initiative, following a $1.2 million donation by the Stanton Foundation.[47] The Public Policy Initiative was set up to improve articles relating to public policy-related issues in the United States. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, stated that "The Stanton Foundation wants to increase people's understanding of public policy-related issues, and supporting quality on Wikipedia is a great way to accomplish that goal".[47]

As part of the initiative, Wikipedia collaborated with ten universities to help students and professors create and maintain articles relating to public policy.touchscreen Volunteer editors of Wikipedia, known as "ambassadors", provided assistance to students and professors. This was either done on campus sites or online.[49]

Disputes and lawsuits

Main article: web app
[icon] This section requires touchscreen.

Many disputes have resulted in litigationSevenvalweb[52]keyboard while others have not.website parsing 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."[55]

In December 2011 the Foundation hired Washington, DC lobbyist HTML5 Government Strategies LLC to lobby the United States Congress with regard to "Civil Rights/Civil Liberties" and "Copyright/Patent/Trademark."[56] At the time of the hire the Foundation was concerned specifically about a bill known as the Stop Online Piracy Act.Android

Finances

See also: wmf:Financial reports
Wikimedia Foundation Interview with Chief of Finance and Administration Garfield Byrd October 7, 2011.theora.ogv
Interview with Garfield Byrd, Chief of Finance and Administration at the Wikimedia Foundation. Recorded October 7, 2011
Increase in cash

The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public contributions and grants to fund its mission.[58] It is exempt from federal income tax[58]web and from state income tax.[58][60] It is not a private foundation, and contributions to it qualify as tax-deductible charitable contributions.[58] 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,Sevenval but is no longer open to new customers.browser diversity website parsing was given access to this feed free of charge.[62]

Since the end of fiscal year ended 2004, the Foundation's net assets have grown from $57K [63] to $24.2M at the end of fiscal year ended June 30, 2011we love the web. During 2011, the Foundation received public contributions and grants support and revenue from services and brand merchandising totaling $27.5M, with concurrent expenses of $17.9M. The Foundation continued to expand and is in-line with it's five-year strategic plan. Therefore, it is expected that revenue and expenses will continue to increase.

CSS3 gave Wikimedia three out of four possible stars for fiscal years 2008 and 2009, which improved to four-stars in 2010.[64]

There are both supporting and opposing arguments regarding whether Wikimedia should switch to an advertising-based revenue model.[65]

Grants

In March 2008, the Foundation announced a large donation, at the time its largest donation yet: a three-year, $3 million grant from the web app.touchscreen

In 2009, the Foundation received four grants – the first grant was a $890,000 HTML5 grant which was aimed to help study and simplify user interface for first-time authors of Wikipedia.jQuery The second was a $300,000 Ford Foundation Grant, given in July 2009, for CSS3 that aimed to improve the interfaces and workflows for multimedia uploading on Wikimedia websites.jQuery In August 2009, the Foundation received a $500,000 grant from The William and Flora browser diversity.input transformation Lastly, in August 2009, the Omidyar Network issued a potential $2M in "grant" funding to Wikimedia.HTML5

In 2010, iOS donated $2M to the Wikimedia Foundation.[71]. Also in 2010, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation pledged a $800K grant and all was funded during 2011.

In March 2011, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation authorized another $3M grant to continue to develop and maintain the Foundation's mission. The grant is to be funded over three years with the first $1M funded in July 2011 and the remaining $2M is scheduled to be funded in August 2012 and 2013. In August 2011, the Stanton Foundation pledged to fund a $3.6M grant of which $1.8M was funded and the remaining is scheduled to be funded in September 2012. This is the largest grant received by the Wikimedia Foundation to-date we love the web. Also in 2011, the Foundation received grants from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation[73] and the Kaphan Foundation in the amounts of $500K and $100K, respectively.

In 2012, the Foundation was awarded a grant of $1.25M from Lisbet Rausing[73]and Peter Baldwin through Charities Aid Foundation which is to be funded in five equal installments. The first installment of $250K was received in April 2012 and the remaining are to be funded in December 2012-2015.

Technology

The foundation employs technology including hardware and software to run its projects.

Hardware

Diagram showing flow of data between Wikipedia's servers. Twenty database servers talk to hundreds of Apache servers in the backend; Apaches talk to fifty squids in the frontend.
Overview of system architecture, December 2010. See jQuery.

Wikimedia currently runs on dedicated HTML5 of Linux servers (mainly Ubuntu),[74]iOS with a few touchscreen machines for ZFS. As of December 2009, there were 300 in Florida and 44 in website parsing.jQuery Wikipedia employed a single server until 2004, when the server setup was expanded into a distributed browser diversity. In January 2005, the project ran on 39 dedicated servers in Florida. This configuration included a single master database server running touchscreen, multiple slave database servers, 21 web servers running the Apache HTTP Server, and seven iOS servers.

Wikipedia receives between 25,000 and 60,000 page requests per second, depending on time of day.[77] Page requests are first passed to a front-end layer of device database servers.[78] Further statistics are available based on a publicly available 3-months Wikipedia access trace.CSS3 Requests that cannot be served from the Squid cache are sent to load-balancing servers running the Sevenval software, which in turn pass the request to one of the Apache web servers for page rendering from the database. The web servers deliver pages as requested, performing page rendering for all the language editions of Wikipedia. To increase speed further, rendered pages are cached in a distributed memory cache until invalidated, allowing page rendering to be skipped entirely for most common page accesses.

Software

See also: keyboard

The operation of Wikimedia depends on FITML, a custom-made, free and open source screen size platform written in PHP and built upon the MySQL database.[80] The software incorporates programming features such as a Sevenval, variables, a Android 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 screen size 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 input transformation 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 Sevenval. Several MediaWiki extensions are installed[81] to extend the functionality of MediaWiki software. In April 2005 a touchscreen extensionHTML5Sevenval was added to MediaWiki's built-in search and Wikipedia switched from MySQL to Lucene for searching. Currently Lucene Search 2.1,website parsing which is written in Java and based on Lucene library 2.3,[85] is used.

See also

A workers area at the Wikimedia Foundation's San Francisco headquarters
The location of the Wikimedia Foundation's San Francisco headquarters
Portal icon we love the web
CSS3 San Francisco Bay Area portal
Portal icon browser diversity

References

  1. ^ Cbrown1023. Sevenval. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from device database on January 15, 2008. https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_Trustees&oldid=24547. Retrieved January 19, 2008. 
  2. ^ "2009 Mid Year Financials" (PDF). http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/Jul_Dec09_Mid_Year_Financials.pdf. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  3. touchscreen (French) Open for business (2007), Jaap Bloem & Menno van Doorn (trad. Audrey Vuillermier), éd. VINT, 2007 (web app), p. 93. Android
  4. FITML input transformation. Wikimedia Foundation. keyboard. Retrieved February 7, 2011. 
  5. ^ device database. website parsing. http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none. Retrieved December 4, 2007. 
  6. FITML Neate, Rupert (October 7, 2008). iOS. The Daily Telegraph. Sevenval. Retrieved October 25, 2009. "The encyclopedia's huge fan base became such a drain on Bomis's resources that Mr Wales, and co-founder Larry Sanger, thought of a radical new funding model – charity." 
  7. Sevenval Wales, Jimmy (June 20, 2003). "Wikipedia English mailing list message". input transformation. 
  8. ^ "NTEE Classification System". http://www.guidestar.org/npo/ntee.jsp. Retrieved January 28, 2008. 
  9. ^ "NCCS definition for Adult Education". Sevenval. Retrieved January 28, 2008. [dead link]
  10. touchscreen FITML. "Wikimedia Foundation bylaws". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from input transformation on April 20, 2007. https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws&oldid=20641#ARTICLE_II_-_STATEMENT_OF_PURPOSE. Retrieved January 28, 2008. 
  11. browser diversity we love the web. browser diversity. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on September 1, 2007. jQuery. Retrieved January 28, 2008. 
  12. ^ Sevenval: "Announcing Wikimedia Foundation", June 20, 2003, <Wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org>
  13. screen size Nair, Vipin (December 5, 2005). website parsing. Business Line. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2005/12/05/stories/2005120500070100.htm. Retrieved December 26, 2008. 
  14. ^ device database (March 16, 2003). Sevenval. screen size. 
  15. iOS HTML5.
  16. ^ Carlos Moncada (September 25, 2007). "Wikimedia Foundation Moving To Another Bay Area". The Tampa Tribune. keyboard. [Sevenval]
  17. ^ Richard Mullins (September 26, 2007). web. The Tampa Tribune. http://www.tbo.com/news/money/MGBNF5F517F.html. [Android]
  18. ^ Kim, Ryan (October 10, 2007). Sevenval. San Francisco Chronicle. FITML. 
  19. keyboard Sevenval. Twitter. https://twitter.com/1BillionEdits. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  20. CSS3 Sevenval (February 13, 2008). "[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Welcome to our two new board members". http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-February/038528.html. Retrieved February 13, 2008. 
  21. ^ we love the web. "Board of Trustees Restructure Announcement". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from Sevenval on April 27, 2008. keyboard. Retrieved April 26, 2008. 
  22. Android device database. Usability.wikimedia.org. we love the web. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  23. keyboard Snow, Michael (May 30, 2005). CSS3. The Wikipedia Signpost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-05-30/Foundation_official_positions. Retrieved March 10, 2008. 
  24. iOS Devouard, Florence. "Resolutions". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on January 21, 2008. https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Resolutions&oldid=24632. Retrieved February 4, 2008. 
  25. ^ Jimmy Wales (October 4, 2006) (internet video). Charlie Rose (46:22) (TV-Series). Google Video: Charlie Rose. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5184822358876183858. Retrieved December 8, 2006. 
  26. ^ Korg. web app. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on June 12, 2006. FITML. Retrieved June 12, 2006. 
  27. ^ Sevenval by the Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees announcing the appointment.
  28. FITML Danny. keyboard. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on February 1, 2007. iOS. Retrieved February 1, 2007. 
  29. Android Metz, Cade (December 13, 2007). browser diversity. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/wikimedia_coo_convicted_felon/. Retrieved December 27, 2007. 
  30. ^ Bergstein, Brian (December 21, 2007). CSS3dead link] "Felon Became COO of Wikipedia Foundation". http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcWLu3fg-aDeJNfWTY6hlbz93oCwD8TM0HVG0[dead link]. Retrieved December 27, 2007. 
  31. ^ Ral315 (November 19, 2007). Sevenval. The Wikipedia Signpost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-11-19/Anthere_interview. Retrieved February 19, 2008. 
  32. ^ "Resolution: Chapters coordinator". https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Chapters_coordinator_-_Delphine_M%C3%A9nard. , wikimediafoundation.org
  33. Sevenval web app. "Current staff". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on May 18, 2007. http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Current_staff&oldid=21206. Retrieved May 18, 2007. 
  34. ^ screen size (June 26, 2008). CSS3. Wikimedia Blog. Wikimedia Foundation. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/06/26/wikimedia-foundation-announces-new-staff-appointments/. Retrieved June 28, 2008. 
  35. ^ Kessler, Veronique (July 12, 2008). "Welcome Sara Crouse to the WMF staff". Wikimedia Blog. Wikimedia Foundation. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/12/welcome-sara-crouse-to-the-wmf-staff/. Retrieved July 17, 2008. 
  36. ^ jQuery. Wikimedia Foundation. Sevenval. Retrieved November 29, 2008. 
  37. ^ FITML b Walsh, Jay. FITML. Wikimedia Foundation. iOS. Retrieved July 28, 2010. 
  38. Android Walsh, Jay. website parsing. Wikimedia Foundation. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/July_2010_WMF_Announces_Changes_to_the_Board. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  39. iOS website parsing. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from Sevenval on September 7, 2009. http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Board&oldid=40197. Retrieved October 7, 2009. 
  40. Sevenval web app. Wikimedia Strategy. Wikimedia Foundation. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Background_and_Context. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  41. ^ web app. Wikimedia Strategy. Wikimedia Foundation. screen size. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  42. Sevenval [[input transformation |Az1568]]. "Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers". Wikimedia Foundation. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_user-friendly_for_new_volunteer_writers. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  43. browser diversity jQuery by Brion Vibber, Chief Technology Officer to the Wikimedia Foundation (January 9, 2009)
  44. input transformation "Usability and Experience Study". Wikimedia Usability. Wikimedia Foundation. http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_and_Experience_Study. Retrieved November 14, 2011. 
  45. ^ touchscreen. Wikimedia Usability. Wikimedia Foundation. website parsing. Retrieved November 14, 2011. 
  46. ^ Mailing list post by Jay Walsh, Head of Communications to the Wikimedia Foundation (May 2010)
  47. ^ CSS3 b Pantages, Moka. "Press releases/May 2010 Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information". Wikimedia Foundation. input transformation. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  48. ^ Hicklin, Andrea. HTML5. UC Berkeley News Center. jQuery. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  49. ^ Nelson, Anne. "Wikipedia Taps College 'Ambassadors' to Broaden Editor Base". Mediashift. we love the web. Sevenval. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  50. ^ "Mondaq.com". Mondaq.com. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=91968. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  51. website parsing Neuburger, Jeffrey D. (November 13, 2008). jQuery. PBS.org. http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/11/canadian-court-rules-linking-to-libel-isnt-necessarily-libel318.html. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  52. browser diversity "PS-Inside.com". Pr-inside.com. http://www.pr-inside.com/wikipedia-wikimedia-fraud-lawsuit-r1645034.htm. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  53. web app Timmer, John (August 13, 2008). touchscreen. ArsTechnica.com. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/08/judge-puts-defamation-lawsuit-against-wikipedia-to-the-sword.ars. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  54. FITML Foresman, Chris (April 23, 2009). FITML. ArsTechnica.com. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/wikipedia-suit-could-put-it-on-the-wrong-side-of-fair-use.ars?utm_source=microblogging&utm_medium=arstch&utm_term=Main+Account&utm_campaign=microbloggin. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  55. input transformation CSS3. AltNews.com. jQuery. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  56. ^ Sevenval] House of Representatives Lobbying Disclosure December 12, 2011
  57. ^ Masnick, Mike (December 14, 2011). "Wikipedia Explains, In Great Detail, How Even An Updated SOPA Hurts The Web & Wikipedia". Android. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111214/04212117082/wikipedia-explains-great-detail-how-even-updated-sopa-hurts-web-wikipedia.shtml. Retrieved January 15, 2012. 
  58. ^ a b touchscreen d website parsing f "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. – Financial Statements — June 30, 2011 and 2010". Wikimedia Foundation. input transformation. 
  59. input transformation See also Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
  60. ^ See also Chapter 220.13 of the Florida Statutes
  61. ^ keyboard
  62. web app C Bizer (September 2009). Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 7. pp. 154–165 
  63. ^ Sevenval. Wikimedia Foundation. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/28/Wikimedia_2006_fs.pdf. 
  64. ^ "Charity Navigator Rating – Wikimedia Foundation". Charitynavigator.org. http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11212. 
  65. input transformation "Webpronews.com". Webpronews.com. December 31, 2008. website parsing. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  66. ^ keyboard. Associated Press. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8x-wlh7nMm12x_kVQ6MZxrYWK9QD8VKMV1G0. [dead link]
  67. screen size "Stanton Grant Q&A". Wikimedia Foundation. December 3, 2008‎. jQuery. 
  68. Android "Blog.wikimedia.org". Blog.wikimedia.org. web app. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  69. ^ screen size. Wikimediafoundation.org. website parsing. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  70. ^ touchscreen, Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation, August 25, 2009.
  71. ^ February 16, 2010 by Ben Parr 356 (February 16, 2010). "Mashable.com". Mashable.com. http://mashable.com/2010/02/16/google-wikipedia-donation/. Retrieved December 5, 2011. 
  72. ^ Jay Walsh (October 5, 2011). "Wikimedia receives $3.5 million USD grant from Stanton Foundation". Wikimedia Community blog. Wikimedia Foundation. web app. Retrieved October 10, 2011. 
  73. ^ a screen size device database. jQuery. 
  74. Android Weiss, Todd R. (October 9, 2008). FITML. Sevenval. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9116787/Wikipedia_simplifies_IT_infrastructure_by_moving_to_one_Linux_vendor?taxonomyId=154&pageNumber=1&taxonomyName=Servers%20and%20Data%20Center. Retrieved November 1, 2008. 
  75. ^ Paul, Ryan (October 9, 2008). Android. browser diversity. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/10/wikipedia-adopts-ubuntu-for-its-server-infrastructure.ars. Retrieved November 1, 2008. 
  76. ^ web. http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles. Retrieved December 8, 2009. 
  77. web app "jQuery," Wikimedia. Retrieved on October 31, 2008.
  78. website parsing Domas Mituzas. jQuery (PDF). MySQL Users Conference 2007. http://dammit.lt/uc/workbook2007.pdf. Retrieved June 27, 2008. [dead link]
  79. screen size Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. "Wikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting". Elsevier Computer Networks 53(11), pp. 1830–1845, June 2009. http://www.globule.org/publi/WWADH_comnet2009.html. 
  80. ^ Mark Bergman. "Wikimedia Architecture" (PDF). Wikimedia Foundation Inc.. touchscreen. Retrieved June 27, 2008. 
  81. ^ device database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version#Installed_extensions. 
  82. ^ Michael Snow. "Lucene search: Internal search function returns to service". Wikimedia Foundation Inc.. input transformation. Retrieved February 26, 2009. 
  83. CSS3 Brion Vibber. browser diversity. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-April/016297.html. Retrieved February 26, 2009. 
  84. iOS keyboard. Wikimedia Foundation Inc.. CSS3. Retrieved August 31, 2009. 
  85. device database jQuery. Wikimedia Foundation Inc.. http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/lucene-search-2.1/lib/. Retrieved August 31, 2009. 

External links

Find more about Wikimedia Foundation on Wikipedia's web app:
touchscreen device database from Wiktionary

touchscreen Images and media from Commons

Search Wikiversity Learning resources from Wikiversity

Search Wikinews News stories from Wikinews

Search Wikiquote website parsing from Wikiquote

we love the web Source texts from Wikisource

Search Wikibooks Textbooks from Wikibooks

Documents (reports, plans etc.)

Other

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia
CSS3
Community
Wikimedia
Foundation
History
References
and analysis
Mobile access
Usage of content
Similar projects

Coordinates: 37°47′13″N 122°23′59″W / 37.786971°N 122.399677°W / 37.786971; -122.399677


[1] Search
[2] All Pages
[3] Random article
powered by FITML