Template:Wikimedia Foundation: Difference between revisions

<big>'''Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.'''</big> ('''WMF'''), founded 20 June [[:Category:Founded in 2003|2003]], is the [[:Category:Wiki company|wiki company]] and [[:Category:Non-profit|non-profit]] [[:Category:Charity|charitable]] [[:Category:Organization|organization]][https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use] responsible for a very large number (over 900 in total) of very active collaborative [[user]]-generated [[WhatIsWiki|wiki sites]], which are grouped together by primary subject and known as a '{{WMF.org|Our projects|project}}'; as well as the [[:Category:Wiki engine|wiki engine]] software initially developed by themselves, known as [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]].  The [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundations]]' major wiki {{WMF-Meta|Wikimedia projects|projects}} started with [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] (encyclopedia), and subsequently expanded to include [[:Category:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]] (dictionary and thesaurus), [[:Category:Wikiquote|Wikiquote]] (quotations), [[:Category:Wikibooks|Wikibooks]] (open content textbooks), [[:Category:Wikisource|Wikisource]] (free content primary-source and secondary-source texts), [[:Category:Wikinews|Wikinews]] (news source), [[:Category:Wikiversity|Wikiversity]] (open learning community), [[Wikispecies]] (free species directory), and many others as listed below.  Most of these 'projects' have separate wiki site versions written in many different [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]].  There is also the [[Wikimedia Commons]] (shared [[:Category:Wiki Multilingual|multilingual]] repository for documents, images, videos, and other media and text files), and the [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] (multilingual coordination of issues common to all Wikimedia projects).  The Wikimedia Foundations' [[:Category:Global|global]] reach is nurtured in its [[Wikimedia Incubator|Incubator]], where all new language versions for all projects are initiated and developed before being launched as a new separate wiki site.  The Foundations' most recent major multi-language wiki project, [[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] (a 'travelpedia'), was inducted to WMF in late [[:Category:Founded in 2012|2012]] (having being independently established in 2006).  Also launched in 2012 was [[Wikimedia Wikidata|Wikidata]] (a major multilingual central space knowledge base for structured data used on all WMF projects).  The newest WMF project is [[Wikifunctions]], launched in mid 2023, is a library of code functions in many different programming languages.