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The '''[[wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.]]''' ('''WMF''') is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the tenth most visited website in the world. It also hosts fourteen related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software which underpins them all. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales~~, as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects which had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales' for-profit company~~.

The '''[[wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.]]''' ('''WMF''') is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the tenth most visited website in the world. It also hosts fourteen related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software which underpins them all. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales.

==Consumer-impact summary==

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*'''User privacy''': Accounts are private, no known data breaches.

*'''Business model''': Funding entirely through donations, including corporate donations.

*'''Market competition:''' Some, including Encyclopedia Britannica.

==Incidents==

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===''Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation'' (2024-present)===

The news agency [[Asian News International]] sued the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2024 in India. They alleged defamation and forced the WMF to censor its "''[[Wikipedia:Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation|Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation]]''" article from October 2024 until May 2025 upon appeal by the WMF.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Drawing a line in the sand: SC judgment reaffirms right to free speech |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/free-speech-freedom-of-expresion-wikipedia-case-9997614/lite/}}</ref>

~~===Caesar DePaço lawsuit (2021-present)===~~

Portuguese businessman Caesar DePaço sued the Wikimedia Foundation in 2021 demanding removal of certain information in the [[Wikipedia:Caesar DePaço|Wikipedia article about him]]. In August 2025 the WMF complied with the decision by the Portuguese court and partially censored the article. Today, this article is censored and unable to be in compliance with Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View guideline.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia Fighting Overseas SLAPP Suit Because Someone Didn’t Like The Factual Info Posted About Them |url=https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/04/wikipedia-fighting-overseas-slapp-suit-because-someone-didnt-like-the-factual-info-posted-about-them/}}</ref><ref name="WMF announcement 2025-08-04">{{Cite web |date=4 August 2025 |title=Office action: Removals on the article Caesar DePaço |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)&oldid=1304256365#Office_action:_Removals_on_the_article_Caesar_DePa%C3%A7o |website=[[English Wikipedia]]}}</ref> Pursuant to the court order, the WMF had to reveal IP addresses and email addresses to the court.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-09 |title=Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-08-09/News_and_notes#Office_actions_from_Portuguese_lawsuit |website=Wikipedia Signpost}}</ref>

~~==Projects==~~

~~The Wikimedia Foundation hosts many free and open source wiki-based projects. The two most well known are Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.~~

==References==

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 |Logo=Wikimedia Foundation logo - vertical.svg}}
-The '''[[wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.]]''' ('''WMF''') is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the tenth most visited website in the world. It also hosts fourteen related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software which underpins them all. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects which had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales' for-profit company.
+The '''[[wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.]]''' ('''WMF''') is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the tenth most visited website in the world. It also hosts fourteen related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software which underpins them all. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales.
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
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 *'''User privacy''': Accounts are private, no known data breaches.
 *'''Business model''': Funding entirely through donations, including corporate donations.
-*'''Market competition:''' Some, including Encyclopedia Britannica.
 ==Incidents==
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 ===''Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation''  (2024-present)===
 The news agency [[Asian News International]] sued the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2024 in India. They alleged defamation and forced the WMF to censor its "''[[Wikipedia:Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation|Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation]]''" article from October 2024 until May 2025 upon appeal by the WMF.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Drawing a line in the sand: SC judgment reaffirms right to free speech |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/free-speech-freedom-of-expresion-wikipedia-case-9997614/lite/}}</ref>
-===Caesar DePaço lawsuit (2021-present)===
-Portuguese businessman Caesar DePaço sued the Wikimedia Foundation in 2021 demanding removal of certain information in the [[Wikipedia:Caesar DePaço|Wikipedia article about him]]. In August 2025 the WMF complied with the decision by the Portuguese court and partially censored the article. Today, this article is censored and unable to be in compliance with Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View guideline.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia Fighting Overseas SLAPP Suit Because Someone Didn’t Like The Factual Info Posted About Them |url=https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/04/wikipedia-fighting-overseas-slapp-suit-because-someone-didnt-like-the-factual-info-posted-about-them/}}</ref><ref name="WMF announcement 2025-08-04">{{Cite web |date=4 August 2025 |title=Office action: Removals on the article Caesar DePaço |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)&oldid=1304256365#Office_action:_Removals_on_the_article_Caesar_DePa%C3%A7o |website=[[English Wikipedia]]}}</ref> Pursuant to the court order, the WMF had to reveal IP addresses and email addresses to the court.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-09 |title=Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-08-09/News_and_notes#Office_actions_from_Portuguese_lawsuit |website=Wikipedia Signpost}}</ref>
-==Projects==
-The Wikimedia Foundation hosts many free and open source wiki-based projects. The two most well known are Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
 ==References==