# Wikimedia Foundation #  The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. For more information [visit the Wikimedia Foundation website ](https://wikimediafoundation.org/) **Focus Areas and Topics** [[Media and Journalism]], [[Education and Skills]], [[Government]], [[Democracy]], [[Human Rights]], [[Digital Rights]], [[Free Speech]], [[Open Data]], [[Privacy]], [[Advocacy]] **Projects and Programs** Wikipedia, WikiData https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page - Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others. Also they do Advocacy on open data and transparency **Funders and Partners** For more information about the [Funders](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Reports#Fundraising_fiscal_year_2020-2021) and Partners, please visit [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/) **People and Careers** Visit the LinkedIn page to find out more about the [people](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikimedia-foundation/people/) working at Wikimedia Foundation and the [career opportunities](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikimedia-foundation/jobs/) currently available. They also have a dedicated [career center](https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/) **Languages** [[English]], [[Spanish]], [[French]], [[Arabic]], [[Chinese]], [[Russian]], [[German]] **Classification and Geography** Wikimedia Foundation is classified as an [[NGO]] and has headquarters located in San Francisco, CA, United States. We are still reviewing information about the geographic scope of work. Current data indicate the scope is [[Global]] <iframe width="640" height="480" style="border:0" loading="lazy" allowfullscreen src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/search?q=Wikimedia+Foundation+San+Francisco,+CA,+United+States&zoom=6&key=AIzaSyARt3Dr0fdqIk6h-e8oTQe84Ln2J3u5HaI"></iframe> >[!info]+ Contact Information and Public Communications Channels *Website* https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *Twitter / X* https://twitter.com/Wikimedia *Instagram* https://www.instagram.com/wikimediafoundation/ *LinkedIN* https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikimedia-foundation/ *Contact Form* https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/contact/ Wikimedia Foundation --- Exported from the Datasphere Observatory Database : 4 April 2025 For more information about the data collection and review processes, please see the Datasphere Atlas [[Methodology]]. If you would like to share information with us to help update this profile, please make a [suggestion](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdldzt15HVYekbX1ZyDi-oLiDxozFL-wiAPPmEs3S4IlCRXpQ/viewform) or [[contact our research team]]. The Datasphere Atlas and Observatory are projects of The Datasphere Initiative