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Advocacy:
“We champion everyone's right to free knowledge online.”
We protect users’ privacy and speech. We educate governments and policymakers about the
importance of the free and open internet. Regardless of location or circumstance, everyone has
the right to seek and share knowledge.
1. Protecting the right to speak and learn freely
2. Defending free expression
3. Standing up for our users
4. Supporting community voices
5. We protect users’ privacy and speech. We educate governments and policymakers about
the importance of the free and open internet. Regardless of location or circumstance,
everyone has the right to seek and share knowledge.

Headquarters:
 San Francisco, California
 Los Angeles, California
Countries to which they have presence: Worldwide
Brief History:
The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its
sibling projects through non-profit means.

In 2001, Jimmy Wales, an Internet entrepreneur, and Larry Sanger, an online community
organizer and philosophy professor, founded Wikipedia as an Internet encyclopedia to
supplement Nupedia. The project was originally funded by Jimmy Wales's for-profit
business. As Wikipedia's popularity increased, revenues to fund the project stalled. Since
Wikipedia was depleting Bomis's resources, Wales and Sanger thought of a charity model
to fund the project.The Wikimedia Foundation was incorporated in Florida on June 20,
2003.