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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.
Wikipedia has no central editorial board. Contributions are made by a large number of volunteers at their own discretion. Edits are neither the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organisation that hosts the site) nor of its staff and edits will not generally be made in response to an email request.
Wikipedia donations can refer to: Donating to the Wikimedia Foundation; Wikipedia:Contact us - Donors; Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials; Wikipedia:Donated artwork; Wikipedia:Donation appeal ideas
Our press room contains more information, along with materials about Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, and other projects it hosts. If you work for an organisation that is interested in a cultural partnership with Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, or one of its affiliated bodies, there is an outreach page on cultural partnerships where ...
You can also donate content, such as photographs, to Wikipedia. You can upload it yourself and then include it in the article, or you can email it to photosubmission wikimedia.org . If you choose to email the content, please include the photograph in question, along with a statement that you own the copyright on it and an agreement to release ...
The majority of funding for the Wikimedia Foundation comes from individual donors all around the world. These donations allow the Foundation to provide the world-class technology infrastructure that supports 15 billion monthly views to Wikipedia and its sister projects, protect free knowledge globally through legal and advocacy efforts, and support the incredible volunteer editors who have ...
Wikipedia does not accept material that claims "this can be used in Wikipedia, but not anywhere else or in derivative works." Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for educational use or even for general non-commercial use.
All intellectual property rights and domain names about Wikipedia were moved to the foundation after its inception, [77] and it currently owns the domain names and maintains most of the Wikimedia movement's websites. [78] WMF is now the registrant of the domain wikipedia.org, owner of the trademark and operator of the wiki platform.