Knowledge belongs to Knowledge belongs to all of us.
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Your impact
in 2017

You visited
Wikipedia

15,000000000

timeseach month

You made

6.1 million donations

in support of

FREE knowledge

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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 stories

Niccolò Caranti - CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikimedians gather in Esino Lario, Italy in June 2016

Our financials
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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

In 2017, we received four stars from Charity Navigator — their highest rating.

Ter-burg - CC BY-SA 4.0
The word Share is painted with a small flashlight
in Esino Lario during Wikimania 2016.

Wikipedia and its sister projects are not owned by anyone — they are owned by everyone.

KATHERINE M., Executive director
Knowledge belongs
to all of us.