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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.
This was part of a larger grant, much of which went to Wikimedia Germany, which took on ownership of the development effort. [138] Between 2014 and 2015, the foundation received $500,000 from the Monarch Fund, $100,000 from the Arcadia Fund and an undisclosed amount from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to support the Wikipedia Zero initiative.
Highlights from the fiscal year 2023–2024 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports Every year, the Wikimedia Foundation shares our audited financial statements along with an explanation of what the numbers mean.
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report: Ranking: Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart with human commentary, republished as The Signpost Traffic Report: Active Wikipedia:Popular pages: Ranking: Top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2023: Inactive Did you know/Statistics: Ranking: Active Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject: By topic
The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 28 February 2025, there are 6,960,607 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.8 billion words (giving a mean of about 692 words per article).
The Foundation missed their target for donations from Wikipedia fundraising banners, but were able to compensate for this with major gifts and other donation channels. Overall, donations revenue increased from $164.8 million in 2021–2022 to $168.9 million in 2022–2023, the Diff post said.
By looking "at what other sites that get similar traffic are worth, how much people would be willing to pay for Wikipedia if it weren’t free, and how much it would cost to replace the site", the researchers determined that Wikipedia is worth "tens of billions of dollars" while having a replacement cost of a bargain $6.6 billion.
A 2015 report from the Brookings Institution shows that the number of newspapers per hundred million population fell from 1,200 (in 1945) to 400 in 2014. Over that same period, circulation per capita declined from 35 percent in the mid-1940s to under 15 percent.