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A note on the separate status of the Wikimedia Endowment. The Wikimedia Endowment, held from 2016 to 2023 by the Tides Foundation and now a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is not and has never been included in Wikimedia Foundation assets, even though Wikimedia Foundation fundraising staff solicit donations to the Endowment and the Wikimedia Foundation itself made donations to the Endowment.
Wikipedia is funded primarily by donations and grants. It does not charge for access nor offer any paid subscription services. If you're looking to acquire a profitable company to diversify your business portfolio, or if you're thinking of trying to save an indebted company from bankruptcy, Wikipedia isn't it. See Wikipedia:Fundraising statistics.
Opt-in ads would allow the Wikipedia fork to do many things currently not possible due to the lack of enough Wikimedia Foundation funds to spread around to over 200 Wikipedias in many languages. More funds could allow for more paid local staff, and funding of independent developers of MediaWiki extensions, global, cross-wiki, integrated ...
Corporations such as Amazon, PayPal, BankAmerica, Swiss bank PostFinance, MasterCard and Visa either stopped working with or froze their customers' donations to WikiLeaks due to political pressures. In response, those behind Operation Payback directed their activities against these companies.
Q: Can I buy Wikimedia Foundation too? A: Well... let me ask them first. Q: Why is it so expensive? A: Use taxes, we think. Q: What are you going to do with the money? A: Very important business and philanthropic stuff, and also buy Jimmy Wales an ivory backscratcher. The foundation wrote back, they said you can buy them for 10.29182 to the ...
Wikipedia and its fellow sites are hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in the United States. Sites like Google or Yahoo are hosted on thousands of servers, with thousands of employees; we have around 800 servers and around 350 staff, and cover our costs through donations—almost all from members of the public.
The majority of funding for the Wikimedia Foundation comes from individual donors all around the world. These donations allow us to provide the world-class technology infrastructure that supports 20 billion monthly views to Wikipedia and its sister projects, protect free knowledge globally through legal and advocacy efforts, and support the incredible volunteer editors that have built 61 ...
In 2018, major donations to the endowment were received from Amazon and Facebook ($1 million each) and George Soros ($2 million). [ 106 ] [ 107 ] [ 108 ] In 2019, donations included $2 million from Google, [ 109 ] $3.5 million more from Baldwin and Rausing, [ 105 ] $2.5 million more from Newmark, [ 110 ] and another $1 million from Amazon in ...