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The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, that operates many wikis. The foundation is mostly known for hosting Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia, as well as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Incubator, and . It also owned the now-defunct Nupedia. The Wikimedia organization was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects through non-profit means.〔 , the foundation employs over 280 people, with annual revenues in excess of .〔 Lila Tretikov leads the foundation as its executive director, and Patricio Lorente is chairman of the board. == Goal == The Wikimedia Foundation falls under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code as a public charity. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is B60 (Adult, Continuing education).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 NTEE Classification System )〕 The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The Wikimedia Foundation's stated goal is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wikimedia Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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