In 20 years, Wikipedia has amassed over 50 million articles in nearly languages. While donations help pay the salaries of its staff members, the volunteers contribute their services to the website for free. Click here to join our channel ieexplained and stay updated with the latest. When the banners requesting donations began to pop up on computer and smartphone screens, some users feared that the online encyclopaedia was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Its balancesheet however, tells a different story. Given its considerable net worth, many have criticised the website for the doomsday-esque tone it adopts in its call for donations.
A charitable website of this scale needs a constant influx of donations. It is not uncommon for large nonprofits like Wikipedia to continuously add funds to its reserve, which acts as a safety net if required, a Washington Post report stated. Charitable organisations are encouraged to maintain an adequate cash reserve in excess of their annual expenditure in case of an adverse situation.
While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has choked businesses across industries, it has presented a new opportunity for the website. Wikipedia has found an uptick in the number of people turning to the site as a reliable source of information during the health crisis. The charitable website is supported by its readers across the world and depends on their donations to survive.
Instead of information scattered around in multiple websites and offline libraries, now all of it is under one umbrella, which makes our real life endeavours that much easier and knowledge-based. Thanks to Sam and his brainchild, the Afrocine Project, more than 3, articles about African cinema have been added to Wikipedia.
The project is just the latest success for Sam, a co-founder of Wikimedia Nigeria. In , he helped produce two Wikipedia informational videos that went viral and dramatically increased awareness of the website in Nigeria.
In Africa, I would love for people to realize that what they read on Wikipedia is written and added by other internet users like them, and we desperately need them to also join in contributing to this huge knowledge base.
She works with fellow volunteers to add articles to the website in indigneous languages — helping preserve and promote the culture and histories of native communities in Latin America. It motivates me to know that Wikipedia and the movement are built day by day, with each individual contribution, and that we still have much to learn from new voices.
There are no limits to participating and contributing. Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia. First donation: No idea — my husband and I have been contributing for a while!
Susan, a college professor, has a son who is an avid animal and zoo enthusiast and uses Wikipedia every day to find new and fascinating facts. They donate to Wikipedia in support of his continued curiosity and love of knowledge. What a gift your website is — it lets him explore new subjects daily. Nearly every dinnertime conversation includes new information gleaned from Wikipedia.
If you read or donate to Wikipedia , you are part of a global movement of volunteers, projects, and campaigns contributing to free knowledge around the world. Wikimedia Commons 60 million images, photographs, videos and music files and counting. Wikiversity Access learning resources, projects and research at any level of study.
Wikimedia Foundation, a group of people dedicated to supporting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is formed. English Wikipedia celebrates the creation of its millionth article: the Jordanhill railway station. The number of human beings helping to document the sum of all human knowledge grows to over five million.
After a more than two and a half year block imposed by the Turkish government, access to Wikipedia is restored to the 82 million humans in Turkey. Happy birthday, Wikipedia!
Cheers to the humans around the world who make Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects possible! Humans around the world look to Wikipedia around 21 billion times every month for information on everything from politics, to music, sports, and beyond.
Have you ever wondered what the most popular articles on Wikipedia were in the last 20 years? Party for one? For 10? Download digital swag pack. Attend an event. Get Wikipedia merchandise. Do you know what we would really like for our 20th birthday? To keep the sum of all human knowledge free for every human being in the world to share in it.
Here is how to help us:. Learn about making a leadership gift. Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects are made by volunteers — people like you. Everyone is invited to join our global community. You can help improve Wikipedia articles, join local or virtual events, write code, and so much more. Share your knowledge and interests with the world. Get involved. Did you know? Improvements to Wikipedia pages about places can have an impact on tourism, potentially increasing the number of nights tourists choose to stay in a city by nine percent.
You do not have to wonder how hundreds of volunteers from around the world came to enjoy a very particular Dutch snack, you just have to embrace it. Meet the Association of Stroopwafel Addicts. This mailing list is powered by MailChimp. Wikipedia promotional video - Superdotada. International Space Station. Wikipedia started as an ambitious idea …to create a free encyclopedia, written by volunteers, for everyone in the world. Made and sustained by humans. Meet the movement.
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Because we want to understand how Wikimedia Sites are used so we can make them better for you, we collect some information when you: Make public contributions. Register an account or update your user page. Use the Wikimedia Sites. Send us emails or participate in a survey or give feedback.
We are committed to: Describing how your information may be used or shared in this Privacy Policy. Using reasonable measures to keep your information secure.
Never selling your information or sharing it with third parties for marketing purposes. Only sharing your information in limited circumstances, such as to improve the Wikimedia Sites , to comply with the law , or to protect you and others. Retaining your data for the shortest possible time that is consistent with maintaining, understanding, and improving the Wikimedia Sites, and our obligations under applicable law. Be aware: Any content you add or any change that you make to a Wikimedia Site will be publicly and permanently available.
If you add content or make a change to a Wikimedia Site without logging in , that content or change will be publicly and permanently attributed to the IP address used at the time rather than a username.
Our community of volunteer editors and contributors is a self-policing body. Certain administrators of the Wikimedia Sites, who are chosen by the community, use tools that grant them limited access to nonpublic information about recent contributions so they may protect the Wikimedia Sites and enforce policies. This Privacy Policy does not apply to all sites and services run by the Wikimedia Foundation, such as sites or services that have their own privacy policy like the Wikimedia Shop or sites or services run by third parties like third-party developer projects on Wikimedia Cloud Services.
As part of our commitment to education and research around the world, we occasionally release public information and aggregated or non-personal information to the general public through data dumps and data sets. Use of info. Important info. This Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your Personal Information. We collect very little Personal Information about you.
We do not rent or sell your Personal Information to third parties. By using Wikimedia Sites, you consent to this Policy. Definitions Back to top. To be clear, while we do not necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at least the following to be "personal information" if it is otherwise nonpublic and can be used to identify you: a your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, user-agent information, payment account number; b when associated with one of the items in subsection a , any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion.
This includes other Wikimedia users and independent organizations or groups who help promote the Wikimedia movement such as Wikimedia chapters , thematic organizations , and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients , and contractors of those organizations or groups.
Back to top. Whatever you post on Wikimedia Sites can be seen and used by everyone. Publicly Visible Information. You do not need to create an account to use any Wikimedia Site. Want to create an account? Don't want to create an account? No problem! More on Usernames. Location Information. Some features we offer work better if we know what area you are in. IP Addresses. We use certain technologies to collect information about how you use Wikimedia Sites.
Information We Receive Automatically. Information We Collect. More on Locally Stored Data. We and our service providers use your information for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our charitable mission, including: Operating the Wikimedia Sites, sharing your contributions and administering our Services. Providing customized Services. Sending emails with news updates and communications about items we believe may be of interest to you.
Sending optional surveys and requesting feedback. Improving the Wikimedia Sites and making your user experience safer and better. Location information. With Your Permission. For Legal Reasons. If the Organization is Transferred Really Unlikely!
We, or users with certain administrative rights, use and disclose Personal Information that is reasonably necessary to: enforce or investigate potential violations of the Wikimedia Foundation or community-based policies; protect our organization, infrastructure, employees, contractors, or the public; or prevent imminent or serious bodily harm or death to a person.
To Our Service Providers. We give volunteer developers and researchers access to systems that contain your Personal Information to allow them to protect, develop, and contribute to the Wikimedia Sites.
We also share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with third parties interested in studying the Wikimedia Sites. When we share Personal Information with third parties for these purposes, we put reasonable technical and contractual protections in place to protect your Personal Information consistent with this Policy and our legitimate interest.
Because You Made It Public. Information that you post is public and can be seen and used by everyone. Your rights. Changes to This Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to do so in the following manner: In the event of substantial changes, we will provide the proposed changes to our users in at least three 3 languages selected at our discretion for an open comment period lasting at least thirty 30 calendar days. Prior to the start of any comment period, we will provide notice of such changes and the opportunity to comment via the Wikimedia Sites, and via a notification on WikimediaAnnounce-L or a similar mailing list.
For minor changes, such as grammatical fixes, administrative or legal changes, or corrections of inaccurate statements, we will post the changes and, when possible, provide at least three 3 calendar days' prior notice via WikimediaAnnounce-L or similar mailing list. Contact Us If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy wikimedia.
Thank You! Categories : Privacy policy Policies. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Feedback View history. Donate Volunteering Wikipedia Store. Give feedback Recent changes. Contents 1 Introduction 1. Wikimedia websites and services regardless of language , including our main projects, such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, as well as mobile applications, Application Programming Interfaces APIs , emails, and notifications; excluding, however, sites and services listed in the "What This Privacy Policy Doesn't Cover" section below.
You, regardless of whether you are an individual, group, or organization, and regardless of whether you are using the Wikimedia Sites or our services on behalf of yourself or someone else. Information you provide us or information we collect that could be used to personally identify you.
Individuals, entities, websites, services, products, and applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
For the sake of clarity, this Privacy Policy covers, regardless of language: All of our major sites found at list of major projects , such as Wikipedia, including user pages, discussion pages, and noticeboards. Our blogs and APIs unless we have provided a separate policy for those services. Official Wikimedia Foundation mobile applications.
Emails, SMS, and notifications from us or sent to us from you. Wikimedia Sites and Tools with alternative policies Some Wikimedia Foundation websites or tools have alternative privacy policies or provisions that differ from this Privacy Policy.
These websites include: Wikimedia Shop covered by the shop's policy ; donate. This separate policy will also be made available where the Extension can be downloaded. If a Wikimedia Foundation website is governed by an alternative privacy policy, it will link to such policy. When a Wikimedia Foundation tool is governed by an alternative privacy policy, the page where the tool may be downloaded or enabled will include a link to that policy.
Community members The Wikimedia Sites are collaborative labors of love that are constantly maintained and updated by a global community of volunteers. This global community of volunteers may sometimes have access to personal Information in order to ensure the functioning of the Wikimedia Sites. Administrative volunteers , such as CheckUsers or Stewards. These are volunteers who enforce Wikimedia Site policies and ensure the safety of the Wikimedia Sites.
When these administrators access Personal Information that is nonpublic, they are required to comply with our Access to Nonpublic Information Policy , as well as other, tool-specific policies. Tool providers. We support platforms for third-party developers to experiment and develop new tools and sites, such as wmflabs. When you use one of the tools developed by these volunteers, you may transfer information to them.
When these volunteers access nonpublic information or Personal Information, they are required to comply with the terms governing the particular platform the tool is available on. Other users. We provide several tools that allow users to communicate with each other. The communications may be covered by this Policy while they pass through our systems, but the users who receive these communications, and what they do with the communications once they receive them, are not covered by this Policy.
Examples include: posting to Foundation-hosted email lists; requesting support from volunteers through our online ticketing system email sent to info[at]wikimedia. Third parties This Privacy Policy only covers the way the Wikimedia Foundation collects, uses and discloses Personal Information and does not address the practices of third parties.
For example, this Privacy Policy does not address the practices of: Websites run by other organizations , like websites linked to from the "References" sections of Wikipedia, or run by Wikimedia chapters or other movement organizations. These organizations may receive information from you if you visit their websites after using one of the Wikimedia Sites.
They are governed by their own privacy policies. Mobile applications provided by other organizations or individuals. These organizations or individuals may receive information from you if you use those applications to access the Wikimedia Sites or Wikimedia Site content.
Sometimes, volunteers may place a data-collecting tool, such as a script, gadget, tracking pixel, or share button, on a Wikimedia Site without our knowledge. This Policy does not cover how third parties handle the information they receive as a result of such a tool. If you come across such a third-party tool, and you believe it violates this Policy, you can remove the tool yourself, or report it to privacy[at]wikimedia.
Locally stored data, JavaScript, and tracking pixels help us do things like: Provide you with a customizable experience, such as using cookies to know your language preference, to remember the user preferences you set so we can provide you with the customized look and feel that you want, and to tell you about interesting Wikimedia issues and events in your area.
Deliver more relevant content to you faster. For example, we use local storage to store your most recently read articles directly on your device, so they can be retrieved quickly. Also, we use cookies to learn about the topics searched so that we can optimize the search results we deliver to you. Understand how you use the Wikimedia Sites, so that we know what works and what is useful.
For example, we might use cookies to learn about the list of articles you are following on your watchlist so that we can recommend similar articles that you may be interested in.
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