Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence/Hans Muller/Presentatie/IHS-wikimedia-foundation
Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
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- non-profit
- with an international board, with of now a Dutch president of the board (Jan-Bart de Vreede of kennisnet.nl)
- owner and manager of servers of all Wikimedia projects
- has NO responsibility for the contents, the "community" has
(but critiques and complaints are addressed by the Wikimedia Board, office can temporarily delete articles)
- financed by donations, yearly fundraiser
- year budget $48.6 M
- comparison with Google and Facebook is difficult, they've individualised pages and no volunteers
- employer of ~ 142 programmers/developers, juridical experts, PR, contacts with local chapters, etc. ...
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