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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.
In 2014, the foundation received the largest single gift in its history, a $5 million unrestricted donation from an anonymous donor supporting $1 million worth of expenses annually for the next five years. [136]
Wikipedia is a non-commercial website run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in San Francisco. We are not looking to be acquired by the highest bidder. We are not looking to be acquired by the highest bidder.
The largest Wikipedia is the English language edition (6,959,646 articles). It is followed by the Cebuano (6,116,784 articles) and German (2,991,573 articles) editions. The Cebuano Wikipedia uses bots to create most of its articles. Other less known projects include Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikivoyage and Wikispecies.
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 24 February 2025, there are 6,958,481 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.8 billion words (giving a mean of about 692 words per article).
As an added benefit, the translations are provided by members of the Wikimedia volunteer community – whose experience and knowledge of the movement provides much higher quality translations. Growth sustained in community grants: In spite of the Foundation's overall growth slowing to 5%, we increased community grants by $2.2M, or 9.9% from the ...
Just 2% of our readers donate, so if you have given in the past and Wikipedia still provides you with $2.75 worth of knowledge, donate today. If you are undecided, remember any contribution helps, whether it's $2.75 or $25.
Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [3] [4] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of December 2024, it was ranked fifth by Semrush, [5] and seventh by Similarweb. [6]