The Wikimedia Foundation is incredibly cost-effective. Our annual budget is minuscule compared to a lot of very worthy causes, and our impact is absolutely enormous.
JIMMY W., FOUNDER
Your impact
in 2017
You visited
Wikipedia
15,000000000
timeseach month
You made
6.1 million donations
in support of
FREE knowledge
You increased Wikipedia by
1
million new articles
You supported
119Wikimedia chapters and user groups
in more than
50countries
You learned from Wikipedia
6,000 timessecond
Jason Krüger - CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikimedians gather in Berlin, Germany in March 2017
Thank you!
Imagine a world
in which every single
human being can
freely share in the sum
of all knowledge.
— the Wikimedia vision statement
Read our storiesNiccolò Caranti - CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikimedians gather in Esino Lario, Italy in June 2016
In 2017, we received four stars from Charity Navigator — their highest rating.
Wikipedia and its sister projects are not owned by anyone — they are owned by everyone.
KATHERINE M., Executive director