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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 ...
In February 2017, an op-ed published by The Signpost, the English Wikipedia's online newspaper, titled "Wikipedia has Cancer", [212] [213] produced a debate in both the Wikipedian community and the wider public. The author criticized the Wikimedia Foundation for its ever-increasing annual spending, which, he argued, could put the project at ...
Wikimedia UK has organised or supported many volunteer efforts to contribute to Foundation projects. One such effort was a month-long competition in February 2010 called 'Britain Loves Wikipedia' aimed at increasing the amount of freely licensed images available for use on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
European Movement UK [5] Scientists for EU [5] [6] Media Matters for America [7] Center for Public Integrity [8] Priorities USA Action [9] American Bridge 21st Century [9] America Votes [9] [10] Millennium Promise [11] Tides Center and Foundation [12] Wikimedia Endowment [13] MoveOn [14] [15] America Coming Together [15]
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 ...
Wikipedia depends on donations (there is literally no other meaningful revenue source) and donations go to support Wikipedia both directly (software, hardware, bandwith, operations engineers) and indirectly (chapter activities of all kinds such as local press relationships, GLAM activities, new editor recruitment, etc.).