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149 New Montgomery Street Wikimedia Foundation , CA 94105 USA 2012–13 Annual Report

+1 415-839-6885 wikimediafoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org Ten years of FOUNWikimediaDATION Foundation sharing and learning

In 2013 the Wikimedia Foundation celebrated a decade of supporting , its sister projects, and a global community of tens of thousands of volunteer contributors. The free knowledge contributed by our community is accessed by over half a billion readers every month, in more than 280 languages. It takes a movement to make something this extraordinary happen. To celebrate our tenth year, we wanted to share some of the passionate voices of the people who make it happen.

Your support

The Wikimedia Foundation is supported the same way Wikipedia is written: with millions of contributions. That keeps us independent and able to deliver what readers need and want from Wikipedia. Which is exactly as it should be.

Financial contributions in 2012–13: More than two million people donated the equivalent of more than $50 million US dollars in over 82 currencies.

Volunteer contributions in 2012–13: Individual contributors made 160.2 million edits, added 4.9 million Wikipedia articles, and uploaded 4.3 million images, audio files and Almost everybody who contributes to video files. Wikipedia does so completely for free. No one makes money on Wikipedia's Total expenditures in 2012–13 millions of articles and images. $35.7 million, USD And yet, it works. Wikipedia keeps growing, and it keeps getting better.

In a world filled with half- Wikipedia editors are people of hearted tweets, self-serving every age and every walk of life: status updates and a painfully businessmen, artists, housewives, This position is perfect for me. pessimistic news media — students. They come from all over It combines my academic passion Wikipedia is a refreshingly the world. They share one thing in for history, archives, open source selfless take on something we common: they love learning, and they advocacy and technology. I see my all take for granted. love sharing what they've learned. role as a facilitator, helping to bridge — Chelsea, donor, Ohio, United — Gereon, Writer and translator, the gap between those who have States Germany the content and those who have the technical skills to make that information accessible to the whole world.

— Michael Barera,

In January 2013, Michael Barera was appointed the first-ever Wikipedian Ultimately, the Wikimedia Foundation in Residence at the Gerald R. Ford represents a path-breaking example Presidential Library & Museum in Ann of what an NGO can achieve in the Arbor, Michigan. Since 2010 more era. Working with relatively than 50 residencies have been created meagre resources and committed to a funding model based on mass Wikipedia is a very useful at galleries, libraries, and museums private donations as opposed to large especially for us students. For me as around the world. institutional grants, the organization an individual it has helped me a lot continues, through an innovative for my school assignments, projects, application of new technologies, to research and many more that I can have a deep and abiding impact on go further and make mention of. I am a 17 year-old boy staying with the lives of millions around the world. a single mother, sister and a brother Honestly speaking, my marks at not forgetting my cousin and her school have increased from good to — Global Journal, January 2013 child. We stay in a small shack with excellent because of Wikipedia. This In late 2012 Global Journal placed the no one working, surviving with only is the exact me and my fellow Wikimedia Foundation as the number R1100 ($100 USD) supporting grant classmates wrote a letter of plea that two NGO in the world, in the company in each and every month. When I would allow free access to Wikipedia. of exceptional nonprofits and NGOs. pass my grade 12 I want to do BSc With the help from Wikipedia, great The Foundation ranked number one Degree in Geology and work here change could be seen in the world as in 2011. This is the second year the in South Africa. Wikipedia can be a whole. Journal has published the ranking. very useful to me in such a way that when I am doing my assignments and — Sinako, learner at Sinenjongo High projects I just go to Wikipedia and School, Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town, I've always wanted to learn more it provides every information I need. South Africa about my family’s roots, but it's tough. Every term my marks are improving If you look at the map or ask the aims to make our because of the information that I get United Nations, my country doesn't projects’ free knowledge accessible on Wikipedia. exist. Somaliland isn't recognized by at no cost to hundreds of millions If you follow the news, you probably many international bodies. — Lutho, learner at Sinenjongo High of mobile phone users, particularly remember reading about the Arab spring. For young people like me and School, Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town, in the Global South. Partnering with But when you read about Somaliland my friends, it was the beginning of South Africa over 23 mobile carriers, the program on Wikipedia, it's so amazing and a new era. As momentous events provides Wikipedia access to over 280 detailed. I feel I'm represented. I can The learners of Sinenjongo High School happened, we were obsessed with the million mobile customers in Africa, the study history, politics, geography, from Joe Slovo Park, South Africa sent news, following up second by second. Middle East, and Asia. even folktales and myths. I learned so One of the things that's surprised a letter to the region’s mobile carriers We were checking our phones, much about my own community, just me most about my involvement with to urge them to make Wikipedia Facebook, . from reading Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the sense of community. freely accessible via mobile phones. It's an attitude of creativity and And I was writing on Wikipedia. I The letter has kicked off an online — Amina, donor, Nairobi collaboration I’ve experienced love Wikipedia because it's impartial; movement to increase the visibility and nowhere else. If one person wants it's the best source for up-to-date growth of Wikipedia Zero throughout to start something, other people will information from a neutral point of Africa. jump onto it and say, “I can help you view. I looked at CNN, Al Jazeera with this.” and the BBC, searching for the most reliable sources. Then I added updates — Q Miceli, Vegan baker, New Jersey, in real time.

— Ravan Jaafar Altaie, Telecom Engineer, Consistent with the DNA of Wikipedia, it is critical to employ imagery and symbols that are sensitive to many cultures, while conveying complex It is the goal of to collect concepts, some of which might be the world’s complex knowledge in a uncommon to the rest of the Web 2.0 structured manner so that anybody The purpose of the world. can benefit from it. Whether that’s Association is to promote education readers of Wikipedia who are able to — Vibha Bamba, Interaction Designer, and knowledge of all countries be up to date about certain facts or Wikimedia Foundation and regions in the world, as well engineers who can use this data to as understanding among nations. create new products that improve the We’re very excited about the launch way we access knowledge. of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role — Denny Vrandecˇic´, Wikidata Project of the Association in supporting the Director, Wikimedia Deutschland Wikivoyage community through its If only my grandfather could have Launched in 2013, Wikidata is the programs. seen Wikipedia, he would have Wikimedia community’s effort to create We are creating software that will let loved it. He considered the center of — Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the an open, free, and massive users load, edit and save Wikipedia the world to be our little village in board, Wikivoyage Association of any form of cataloged, digital articles visually, bypassing the existing northern , Esino Lario. And after information. The project will have a system that requires our users learn The Foundation’s newest project, the second world war, he started profound impact on how Wikipedia and “wikitext,” a complex markup code. Wikivoyage, set sail in 2013, bringing collecting Esino’s local history — its sister projects organize and share Instead, the articles they’re editing a thriving community of free knowledge documents and archives dating all information across languages and topic will look the same as when they’re travel writers to the Wikimedia the way back to the 14th century, areas. reading them, and any changes community. Also supported by the even some incredible photos of the they make will be obvious in their Wikivoyage Association, Wikivoyage’s mountains nearby and the whole Lake effects before they press save — just mission is to build a free, multilingual Como area. like writing a document in a word and worldwide travel guide that anyone On Wikipedia, you've got to present Today, I’m carrying on his life work processor. can edit. a balanced view in your article. You and his passion for recording local can't be biased, and you can only — James Forrester, Product Manager, history and heritage. The difference is use reliable sources. Wikipedia helps VisualEditor, Wikimedia Foundation I have a tool my grandfather did not people get to the truth of things. — Wikipedia. VisualEditor, the Foundation’s flagship I can appreciate this. I'm a father, and software project, was introduced in — Iolanda, Scientific Director and a grandfather. I hope Wikipedia will beta status on many of the largest Curator, Milan, Italy give my children and grandchildren a language Wikipedia projects in chance to use what they've learned, 2013. Developers have reviewed and to make this world a better one. and addressed over 1500 bugs and issues to enhance and improve the — Tony “Tony the marine” Santiago, software, a major effort to simplify retired U.S. Marine Corps, Arizona, the editing interface for Wikipedia and United States This assignment is very good and increase the overall size of the editing Connecting people and ideas is more suitable to our time, because community. a critical component for many our generation doesn’t use papers projects, and grantees recognize that like a more traditional assignment. community engagement and active My knowledge is published for all the collaboration is key for a project’s world. success. — Walaa, student, Giza, Egypt — Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia The global education team oversees the Foundation Foundation’s fast-growing Wikipedia Education Program, a global initiative In 2012–13 the Foundation created aimed at incorporating Wikipedia a new program team focused on It is hard to imagine that in 2003, editing directly into academic curricula. making grants to individuals, groups Wikipedia was still running on just and organizations working on building two servers — which I used to community and growing content on It’s important to have women administer myself in the beginning. Wikimedia projects, as well as related participate in MediaWiki, Wikipedia, Ten years later, the Foundation open knowledge projects. and open source projects in general Anyone with a computer can edit, continues to fulfill that role of because their perspectives are but with over 15 percent of our supporting Wikipedia with a stable important — and not just women, but users accessing Wikipedia on mobile and trusted infrastructure. It’s men and women of color as well. The devices and growing, the Wikimedia possible thanks to the trust of our absence of these perspectives affects Foundation had to do more to millions of donors, the hard work of its the type of articles that get deleted, let anyone with Internet access staff, the thoughtful oversight enacted promoted, and even created. contribute to the sum of all human by my fellow Board of Trustees members and last but not least the knowledge. For this reason, we’ve just — Valerie Juarez, bug wrangler in- many thousands of volunteers who not released a new feature: editing for training, Wikimedia Foundation, FLOSS only manage and build our projects, mobile. Outreach Program for Women but also take an active part in the — Juliusz Gonera, Software Engineer, governance of the Foundation. and access to Wikimedia Foundation information are core Wikimedia — , founder of Wikipedia values. These values can be With the continuous rise of mobile In 2003 Jimmy Wales created compromised by surveillance: editors access as a primary means the Wikimedia Foundation in St. and readers understandably are less of accessing the Internet, the I saw that somebody tagged me Petersburg, to provide a willing to write and inform themselves Foundation’s software developers on a picture on Facebook, so I said long-term, sustainable future for as honestly and freely. Put simply, have made strides in bringing the well maybe it’s a picture from the Wikipedia and its rapidly growing sister “rights of are necessary for core Wikipedia contributing functions conference. And it was a picture projects. Now based in downtown intellectual freedom.” to mobile platforms. In 2013 the of a newspaper, a New York Times Foundation debuted mobile Wikipedia newspaper, that had my pictures on San Francisco, the Foundation has — Geoff Brigham, , editing and photo uploading, with more the page. over 170 employees, and provides Wikimedia Foundation functions in development. technological, programmatic, financial, One of the most stimulating aspects I started thinking...well, if I didn’t and legal support and guidance to the In June 2013 the Foundation of this entire experience is the chance use licenses, or international Wikimedia community. reaffirmed its commitment to to help people convert knowledge into if I didn’t release the pictures for the protecting the privacy of its users in the images that make that knowledge , my pictures wouldn’t midst of allegations that the Internet’s more comprehensible, and then to have been published in one of the largest companies were compelled to ensure the accessibility of those most important newspapers in the collaborate with the PRISM program images by making them freely whole world. I think that was a life- of the U.S. Government’s National available. changing experience for me. Security Agency. The Foundation has never collaborated to share private — David Gómez Fontanills, — Juan Ignacio Iglesias, , information under these programs, Wikimedian, Barcelona, Spain and in response to the issue launched a consultation with the Wikimedia community to hear views and feedback on the issue.

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Ten years of free Wikimedia Foundation knowledge and Financial Performance 2012–13 Annual Report free thinking Wikipedia was founded in 2001, and Statement of Activities by 2003 was beginning to flourish. The editing community had grown to The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2012–13 fiscal year almost 4,000 people who had already took place from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. produced more than 234,000 articles in thousands of US dollars in several dozen languages. Wikipedia was still quite small, but off to a solid Support and revenue Imagine a world start. Donations and contributions $ 44,667 In-kind service revenue 261 in which every That’s when, ten years ago, Jimmy Other income, net 414 Wales founded the Wikimedia Investment income, net 17 Foundation. Wikipedia’s bandwidth and Release of restrictions on temporarily single person on costs were beginning to outstrip The Projects restricted net assets 3,276 his ability to pay for them, and it was Total revenue 48,635 clear that the project was going to be The Wikimedia Foundation operates the planet is given popular and successful. And so Jimmy 13 free knowledge projects managed Expenses created the Wikimedia Foundation with and built by a community of over Salaries and wages 15,984 the goal of providing technological, free access to the 100,000 active volunteers. Awards and grants 2,791 legal, and administrative Internet hosting 2,550 sum of all human support for Wikipedia and its sister In-kind service expenses 261 projects. Since then the support Other operating expenses 10,017 provided by the Wikimedia Foundation Travel and conferences 1,395 knowledge. has enabled Wikipedia to develop into Depreciation 2,707 a trusted and much-beloved cultural Total expenses 35,705 institution and the biggest and most- used repository of knowledge that the Increase in unrestricted net assets 12,930 world has ever known. Wikipedia® Temporarily restricted net assets If you’re reading this, you’re part of that Free success: thank you. Contributions 606 Governance The free encyclopedia containing Release of restrictions on temporarily Since its launch 10 years ago, the more than 30 million articles in 287 restricted net assets (3,276) Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation has grown into languages. The most comprehensive Decrease in temporarily restricted Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair an organization of just under 200 and widely used reference work humans net assets (2,670) Phoebe Ayers, Vice Chair people — primarily software engineers, have ever compiled. More than 70,000 Increase in net assets $ 10,260 Stu West, Treasurer product developers and community active volunteers contribute every , Secretary liaisons. 2012–13 was a great year for month. Jimmy Wales, Founder us, mainly because it’s when we began to roll out VisualEditor, our long-awaited Balance Sheet FOUNDATIONKat Walsh, Chair (through August 2013) new editing functionality. as of June 30, 2013 Samuel Klein If you’ve ever tried to edit Wikipedia you in thousands of US dollars Alice Wiegand know there’s a bit of a learning curve: historically editors have needed to learn Assets Ana Toni code before they can really start ® Cash and cash equivalents $ 22,172 María Sefidari to make a contribution. Syntax isn’t Shared media repository Current portion of contributions receivable 1,550 necessarily hard to learn, but in 2013 Accounts receivable, net 47 A repository of almost 20 million freely Advisory Board people expect to be able to interact Investments 17,579 usable images, sound and video files, Ward Cunningham online without needing to think about Prepaid expenses and serving both Wikimedia’s projects the tools they’re using, and we wanted other current assets 1,391 and countless other educational and Melissa Hagemann Wikipedia to meet those expectations. Total current assets 42,739 Matt Halprin informational needs. Property, , and equipment, net 4,912 Hence, VisualEditor! VisualEditor Nonconcurrent portion of Mimi Ito makes editing Wikipedia significantly contributions receivable 496 Mitch Kapor simpler and faster, and we hope will Total assets $ 48,147 Veronique Kessler enable new people to start contributing Neeru Khosla to Wikipedia who otherwise wouldn’t. Liabilities Teemu Leinonen VisualEditor is rolling out in stages Accounts payable $ 1,092 across Wikipedia’s 284 language Nhlanhla Mabaso MediaWiki® Accrued expenses 1,457 Rebecca MacKinnon editions, and if it hasn’t arrived yet Open-source Deferred revenue 37 Wayne Mackintosh on the edition you use, it will soon. Other liabilities 372 The leading open-source wiki software Roger McNamee We encourage you to give it a try. If Total liabilities 2,958 on the Internet which acts as the Domas Mituzas you see a typo or a small mistake on backbone for all of the Wikimedia Trevor Neilson Wikipedia, please fix it, and if you know Net assets Foundation’s and thousands of anything worth adding, please add it. Unrestricted net assets 42,922 other wiki communities. Achal Prabhala Some people find editing remarkably Temporarily restricted net assets 2,267 satisfying, and we hope you will too. Total net assets 45,189 Michael Snow We’re also particularly proud this year Jing Wang of the success of Wikipedia Zero, our Total liabilities and net assets $ 48,147 Jessamyn West project that forms partnerships with Ethan Zuckerman mobile carriers giving their customers

access to Wikipedia for free on their Wikidata® Executive Director phones. Due to Wikipedia Zero, Free knowledge repository today more than 300 million people throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle Executive team East have access to Wikipedia from Geoff Brigham their mobile phones without incurring Garfield Byrd any data charges. In 2014 we’ll add Lisa Seitz Gruwell to that list. Erik Möller Frank Schulenburg Whether you are an editor or a donor Wikivoyage® (or both!), on behalf of the half-billion Free worldwide travel guide Gayle Karen Young people who read Wikipedia and its Functional allocation of expenses 2012–2013 sister projects, we thank you for your Product and engineering $ 15,668,008 support. It’s been a good year, and 1 we look forward to more and better in Programs and grantmaking 4,571,662 2014. Grants 2,791,378

Sincerely, General and administrative 2 8,158,421

Sue Gardner, Executive Director ® Fundraising 3,807,160 Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair, Board of of species Trustees Management and governance 708,167

Total $ 35,704,796

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