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|Website=https://wikimediafoundation.org/,https://foundation.wikimedia.org/ | |Website=https://wikimediafoundation.org/,https://foundation.wikimedia.org/ | ||
|Description=American non-profit host of Wikipedia | |Description=American non-profit host of Wikipedia | ||
}} | }}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. | ||
==Consumer-impact summary== | == Consumer-impact summary == | ||
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