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Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 Annual Report
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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
[edit]This was the year the free knowledge movement found its voice.
[edit]For nearly 12 years, we’ve been building a world where information is freely available for people everywhere. In 2011–12, for the first time, we felt that world was seriously under threat. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) were pieces of proposed legislation in the US that might have seriously damaged the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
That’s why in January 2012, more than 1,800 Wikipedians made a collective decision to black out Wikipedia for 24 hours in order to raise awareness about SOPA and PIPA. The protest was a huge success: more than eight million people used our look-up tool to find their elected representatives, millions more made their voices heard on social media, and thousands of journalists published news stories. The bills were dropped.
We hesitated before we blacked out the site, because we know how important Wikipedia is to people, and we didn’t want to lightly take it away from them. Plus we didn’t want to squander the goodwill that people feel for the site. Readers trust Wikipedia because they know that, despite our faults, our heart is in the right place. We’re not trying to sell a product or a point of view: we just want to provide useful, neutral, reliable information.
We may never do anything like the anti-SOPA/PIPA protests again. We don’t consider ourselves to be political, and we’re not an advocacy organization. But we’re proud that when it really mattered, we spoke up. We believe January 2012 was when Wikipedia found its public voice, speaking up for those who write and read Wikipedia — and for the ability of ordinary people to share and learn together.
Beyond SOPA and PIPA, in 2011–12 the Foundation focused on its core priorities: improving quality, increasing participation, expanding our reach, stabilizing our infrastructure and supporting innovation. We expanded some of our most successful programs, including the Wikipedia Education program, and we launched Wikipedia Zero. We made significant steps forward developing new features like Wikipedia’s visual editor, the article feedback tool, and new interfaces and apps serving a rapidly growing audience of mobile users.
We’ve got more great work ahead in 2012–13.
We want to thank our donors. The fact that you pay the costs of the site keeps us independent of outside influence, and able to deliver exactly what you want and need from Wikipedia. As it should be.
And we want to thank the people who create Wikipedia — writing it, taking photographs for it, copyediting, working to resolve disagreements, fighting vandalism, creating code, responding to reader questions, and all the other tasks involved.
You’re making information freely available for a half-billion people around the world, and they — and we — are grateful. Thank you for everything you do.
Sincerely,
Sue Gardner, Executive Director
Kat Walsh, Chair, Board of Trustees
Projects
[edit]The Wikimedia Foundation operates 11 free knowledge projects managed and built by a community of over 100,000 active volunteers.
Wikipedia® Free encyclopedia
The free encyclopedia containing more than 23 million articles in 285 languages. The most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled. More than 74,000 active volunteers contribute every month.
Wikimedia Commons® Shared media repository
A repository of almost 15 million freely usable images, sound and video files, serving both Wikimedia’s projects and countless other educational and informational needs.
MediaWiki® Open-source wiki software
The leading open-source wiki software on the Internet which acts as the backbone for all of the Wikimedia Foundation’s wikis and thousands of other wiki communities.
Wikispecies® Dictionary of species
Wikibooks® Free textbooks and manuals
Wikinews® Free content news source
Wikiquote® Collection of free quotations
Wiktionary® Dictionary and thesaurus
Meta-wiki™ Project coordination
Wikiversity® Free learning tools
Wikisource® Free source documents
Financial Performance
[edit]All financial data is reported in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
| Description | Amount | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support and revenues | |||
| Donations and contributions | 35,067 | ||
| In-kind equipment donation | 965 | ||
| In-kind service revenue | 297 | ||
| Other income, net | 666 | ||
| Investment income, net | 44 | ||
| Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets | 1,441 | ||
| Total revenue | 38,480 | ||
| Expenses | |||
| Salaries and wages | 11,749 | ||
| Awards and grants | 2,107 | ||
| Internet hosting | 2,487 | ||
| In-kind service expenses | 297 | ||
| Operating | 9,199 | ||
| Travel and conferences | 1,533 | ||
| Depreciation and amortization | 1,889 | ||
| Total expenses | 29,261 | ||
| Increase in unrestricted net assets | 9,219 | ||
| Temporarily restricted net assets | |||
| Contributions | 2,959 | ||
| Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets | (1,441) | ||
| Increase in temporarily restricted net assets | 1,518 | ||
| Increase in net assets | 10,737 | ||
| Assets | Liabilities & Net Assets | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 21,797 | Liabilities | |||
| Contributions receivable | 3,084 | Accounts payable | 745 | ||
| Accounts receivable | 495 | Accrued expenses | 1,034 | ||
| Investments | 3,600 | Deferred revenue | 294 | ||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,257 | Other liabilities | 205 | ||
| Total current assets | 30,233 | Total liabilities | 2,278 | ||
| Property, plant, and equipment, net | 5,168 | Net Assets | |||
| Nonconcurrent portion of contributions receivable | 1,806 | Unrestricted net assets | 29,991 | ||
| Temporarily restricted net assets | 4,938 | ||||
| Total net assets | 34,929 | ||||
| Total assets | 37,207 | Total liabilities and net assets | 37,207 | ||
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Governance
[edit]Board of Trustees
Kat Walsh, Chair
Jan-Bart de Vreede, Vice Chair
Stu West, Treasurer
Bishakha Datta, Secretary
Jimmy Wales, Founder
Phoebe Ayers (through July 2012)
Ting Chen (Chair through July 2012)
Samuel Klein
Arne Klempert (through July 2012)
Matt Halprin
Alice Wiegand
Patricio Lorente
Advisory Board
Ward Cunningham
Florence Devouard
Melissa Hagemann
Mimi Ito
Mitch Kapor
Veronique Kessler
Neeru Khosla
Teemu Leinonen
Nhlanhla Mabaso
Rebecca MacKinnon
Wayne Mackintosh
Benjamin Mako Hill
Roger McNamee
Domas Mituzas
Trevor Neilson
Craig Newmark
Achal Prabhala
Clay Shirky
Michael Snow
Jing Wang
Jessamyn West
Ethan Zuckerman
Executive Director
Sue Gardner
Executive Team
Geoff Brigham
Garfield Byrd
Zack Exley
Erik Möller
Barry Newstead
Gayle Karen Young
Contributors
[edit]The Wikimedia Foundation benefits from its unique global community of volunteer editors and financial contributors. We thrive due to the vital support we receive from this community.
$1 million +
[edit]Stanton Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Pavel Durov
$100,000 – $999,999
[edit]Peter Baldwin & Lisbet Rausing
Charina Endowment
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Anonymous (1)
$25,000 – $99,999
[edit]Andy & Consuelo Fund
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Irene Clardy
Google Matching Gifts
Microsoft Matching Gifts
Shor Family Foundation
Lawrence Spitters
Two Sigma Investments LLC
Yardi Systems, Inc.
Anonymous (2)
$5,000 – $24,999
[edit]John Abele
Academy Place Foundation
Bijan & Soraya Amin Foundation
Eric Anderson Foundation
Apple Matching Gifts Program
Dana Bartlett
Patricia Bell
JoeBen Bevirt & Jennifer Barchas
Michael Birch
Milonja Bjelic
Brightwater Fund
Annette Campbell-White
John Caulkins
James Chambers
Fong Tat Chong
CNC Repair & Sales
Pat & Eva Condon Foundation Fund
William Deramus
Livio Desimone
Disruptor Foundation
Elbaz Family Foundation
Stack Exchange
David & Amy Fulton Foundation
Fund for Second Nature at the Bessemer Trust
Geisel Family Foundation
Glenair Inc
Toni Godfrey
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Foundation
Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation
Jose Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez
DW Gore Family Foundation
Grace Jones Richardson Trust
Grainger Foundation
Graphics Press, LLC
Gary Gray
Marc Haas & Helen Hotze Haas Charitable Foundation
Mark Heising & Elizabeth Simons
Alan Huber
Indigo Trust
Jose Luis Infiesta Valls
Scott Jordan
Wong Ka Wai
Ravi Kalidindi
Neeru Khosla
Scott Kluth
Andras Konya
Takashi Kousaka
Sean Lennon
Mark & Candace Leonard
Michael Lewis
Rosa Lockett
De Long Stanislawski & Co.
Richard Lounsbery Foundation
Donald Luhmann
Irene Lynch
Madan Family
Joseph K. McLaughlin
Mary Meeker
National Christian Foundation
National Combined Federal Campaigns
Network For Good
New York Community Trust
Newsmax Media Inc.
Kevin O' Shea
Paul O'Neill
Henrik Orsted Administration
Nicholas Palevsky Fund
Manish Pandya
Stuart Paynter
Pediapress
Frank & Denise Quattrone Foundation
Melanie Reimer
Jonathan Rosen
Santa Barbara Foundation
Schaible Seidletz Foundation
Christopher Seiwald
Shvat Shaked
James Simons
Skowronski Family Foundation
Lawrence Stupski
Aaron Swartz
John Templeton Foundation
Tripling Elephants
Unger Foundation
Robert L Vick
Charles & TC Vollum
Khanh Vu
Everett Wetchler
Peter Wheeler & Elizabeth Munro
William Wolf
King & Linda Won
Gibson Worster
David Zwirner
Anonymous (11)
$1,000 – $4,999
[edit]Anurag Acharya
David Agraz
Mohammed Zaman Akil
Maha Al-Sulaiti
Amir Aliev
Abdulhamid Alkasbany
Mohammed Alkhalifa
Ilan Almog
Alpine School District Technology Dept.
Fatma Alsabah
Ahmed AlSager
David Alston
Konrad Alt & Maureen Kennedy
Richard Altmaier
American Endowment Foundation
Mitch Ames
Levin Anne
Dalibor Antonic
Benjamin Appen
Appleby Charitable Trust
Adolfo Arena
Charles Arnold
Kevin Connor Arpe
Vadim Asadov
Robert Ashcroft
Austin Community Foundation
Jesse Ausubel
Omer Ayfer
Sandra Ayling
Rick Ayre
John Babcock
Brayton Bailey
Bailey Family Foundation
Alexis Baird
John Baldridge
Sam Baldridge
Roger J Bamford
Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Cindy Barber
Julien Basch
Peter Baumgartner
Jack Baylis
Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation, Inc.
William Benter
David Bentley
Marc Berndl
Jules Bernstein & Linda Lipsett
Peggy Bess
Rajeev Bhaman
Kasi & Jayashree Bhaskar
Ramamoorthi Bhaskar
BiblioLabs LLC
Michael Bills
Graeme Birchall
Claude Blackburn
Paula Blaha
Boulder Labs Inc
Laurence Boyd
Bob Bradley
William Brall
Joseph Brandt
Heidi Brockman
Robert Brooks
William Brown
Broyhill Family Foundation
Russell Bucciere
Paul Bugyik
Thomas Buhr
Brian Burnim
John Burrison
David Bydeley
Alex Cable
Judy Cagle
George Cameron
Robert Capps
Caremed Health Corporation
Adam Carte
Christopher Carter
Eligio Cedeno
Bertrand Chan
Glenn Chesterton
Chevron Humankind Matching Gift Program
Nicholas Chu
William Cline
Mary Beth Cody
James Cogbill
Scot Colburn
Columbia Pictures
Conger Family Foundation
Ryan Conlon
Lenore C Cooney
Ardelle Cowie
Martin Crawford
Bryan Culbertson
Burt Cutler
Jeffrey Dauber
Ad Davidse
Muhammad Dawood
Carl de Marcken
John De Palma
Pierre de Saab
Paolo De Santis
William Devitt
Peter deVos
David Dewhurst
Dillon Fund
Margaret Dixon
Mathew Donovan
Michael Doyen
Dr. Dobb's
DRB Systems Incorporated
Drollinger Family Charitable Foundation
Lawrence H. & Elizabeth S. Dunlap Foundation
Douglas Durst
Brendan Dyson
Kenneth Eddings
William B Edwards
Peter Egli
Stanley Eisenberg
Bruce Elleman
Enablement Fund
Energy Income Partners LLC
Charles Engelke
Randall Erickson
Lars Erlandsson
Esolutions First LLC
Mark Esposito
Peggy Farber
Ira Fay & Ruth Kaplan
Jeffrey Feddersen
Fieldstead and Company
David Fifield
John Filetti
Michael Fine
First National Bank
Kristy Fisher
Gerald Fishman
Carla Flournoy
Marek Fludzinski
Norman Fogelsong
Marc Forand
Robert Ford
William Ford
Bruce Ford Brown Charitable Trust
Jamie Forrest
John Fox
John Frame
Isabelle Francois
Max Frankel
Andrew Fraser
Mark Frohnmayer Advised Fund
Victor Gadzhiev
Gheorghe Ganea
Jason Gans
Don Garrett
Richard L. Garwin
GE Foundation
Ken Geib
Betty Gerlack
Sal Giambanco
John Giannandrea
Jacob Gibson
Andy Glew
Bradley Grantham
Gregory Grass
Stuart Gray
Green Bicycle Fund
Ribes Greus
Mary Beth Guard
Joshua Guberman
James Guiry
Jose M Guzman Ibarra
Luis Armando Guzman Luna
Alexandre Haag
Paul Haahr
Patrick Hagan
Julian Haight
Tsutsui Hajime
J Hall
Sue Ann Hamm
Kevin Hammond
Kimberley Harding
K Harigai
Clayton Harper
Fred Hassani
Michael Hassett
Allen Hathaway
John Healy
Jonathan Heiliger
Franz Heinsen
Greg Hendershott
M. Hepel
Hewlett Packard Company Foundation
Martin Hibdon
Timothy T. Hilton
Gregory Hirschmann
David Hitz
Jim Hobart
Paulien Hogeweg
Adrian Holovaty
Aubrey Holt
John Horne
Krista Horstman
Patrick Hosey
David S. Howe Foundation
David Humm
Aaron Hung
William H Hurt Foundation
Don Husby
David Ignat
Daniel Ihnat
IJzerlo Holding B.V.
Osamu Ikeuchi
Lawrence W. Inlow Foundation
Grattan Institute
Intergrid Mideast Group LLC Kliakhandler
Iolo Technologies
Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation
Tetsuya Isozaki
Roy Jabionka
Douglas Jaffe
Vinay Jain
Jim Jannard
Kent Janér
Jonathan Jarvis
Jessica Jenkinson
Amy Jernigan
David Joerg
Scott Johns
Mark Johnson
Fredrik Johre
Srikanth Jonnalagadda
Robert E. Jordan
Jacques Jorion
Michael Just
JustGive
Richard Kandarian
Kara Fund
Sinan Karaca
Steve Kass
Kellogg Company
Joseph Kennedy
Jennifer King
Elizabeth Kinney
Lisa Kirros
Nora Klein
Kleinschmidt Family Foundation
Robert Knapp
Jonathan Knowles
Donald & Jill Knuth
Eric Koegler
David Kohler
Keen Yung Kong
Boris Kontsevoi
Caroline Koo
HM Koo
Erin Korber
Koss Family Fund
Khris Krepcik
Kenya Kura
Marc Labelle
Jeffrey Lamkin
Jim Lampl
David Landhuis
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn H. Landis
Miguel Lantigua
Dianne Lawrence
Karen Lawrence
Michiel le Roux
Seth Lederman
Eric Lee
Linda Lee
Muchen Lee
LegitScript LLC
John Leong
Leslie Family Foundation
Shawn Ligocki
Jing Lim
Aase Lindahl
Christopher Lingle
Jeffrey Litwiller
Juliette Liu
Richard Liu
Epigmenio López
Keith Loritz
Nicholas & Diane Lovejoy
Joshua Lovelace
Felicia Lovelett
Lu Foundation
Marilyn Lucht
Monique Lusse
Benjamin Lutch
Joseph Lyons
Shashikiran M S
Michael Makuch
Anup Mantri
Lauren Marino
Lars Markhus
Josef Martin
Dawn Mason
Philip Mateescu
Rafael Mayer
Philip Mayfield
Craig McCaw
Ryan McCorvie
Bill McCune
SD McGee
Georgia McGraw
Brian McInnis
Steven Melander-Dayton
Merrill Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Eugene Mesgar
Metropolitan Arts Partnership
Metz Family Foundation
Carol Meyer
Gil Michaels
J Michael Miller
Kelly Miller
James Millis Jr. Donor Advised Fund
Milner Family Foundation
Dr. L. David Mirkin
Florin Miron
Domas Mituzas
Gavin Moodie
Ethel Moore
Norma & Randy Moore
Stuart Moore
Rodman W. Moorhead III
Charles Morgan
Timothy Mott
Jon Moynihan
Andrea Mueller
Eben Muglen
Azat Mukhametov
Anton Murashov
Musk Foundation
Thomas Myers
Jasmine Nabi
Bapi Nag
Theodore Naleid
Raghuram Narayan
National Instruments Matching Gifts
Newsmax Media
Eric Nickell
Govind Nk
Nord Family Foundation
Asia Nugent
Alisa O'Leary
Diya Obeid
Purnendu Ojha
Bryan Olson
Oracle Corporate Matching Gifts Program
Orx
Naoto Otani
Jim Pacha
Margot Page
Mohan Pandit
C E Patterson
Peil Charitable Trust
Marielee Perez
Drew Perkins
Yorick Peterse
Duane Phillips
Joel Phillips
Franck Pion
Alexander Polsky
Diane Post
Robert Prestezog
James & Michelle Pretlow
Spencer Pricenash
Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A.
Max Pucher
Jane Pyenson
Eric Pynnonen
Qualcomm Matching Gift Program
Robert Quillin
Sreeram Ramachandran
E. Randol & Pamela Schoenberg
Mahendiranath Rangareddy
Mike Ranta
Navaneetha Rao
Valmiki Rao
Vivekanand Rau & Farzaneh Abhari
Pat Roach
Thomas Rocklin
Michael Rogers
James Rolle
Claudio Rondinelli
Thomas Rosato Foundation
Evan Rosenfeld
Dennis Rossman
Aaron Rotenberg
Royce Family Foundation
Mark Russinovich
Pooja Rutberg
Frank Ruthacker
Richard Saada
Stephen Sacks
Thomas Salander
Mary Salmon
John Santmann
Sawa Family Charitable Fund
Saye Family Fund
Brian & Cynthia Scanlan
Sebastian Schachinger
James Schimpf
Steven Schlossstein
Anna Scott
Seattle Foundation
Thomas Seiz
Semantic Arts Inc
William Serpe
Albert Shahugian
Konstantin Shchuka
Jacqueline Shelburne
Joan Sherman
Michael Shimoide
Clay Shinn
Daniel Shull
Sarah Siddiqui
Jason Simar
Russel Simmons
Kathleen Simpson
Sims/Maes Foundation
Linda Slakey
Barry Smith
Steven Smith
Susan Smith
Charles Smith-Dewey
Sara Smollett
Snyder White Oaks Foundation of Delaware
Luca Sobacchi
Fady Soliman
Jennifer Sparks
Joel Spiegel
Nathan Springer
Raghavan Srinivasan
James Stanard
Trevor Standley
Kevin Stanford
Renata Stasaityte
Dennis Stattman
Jim & Debby Stein Sharpe
Alessandro Steinfl
Gary Steinmetz
Allan Stephan
Anthony Stieber
Michael Stochosky
Matthew Streeter
Strypemonde Foundation
Amy Subach
Edna Sugihara
James Summerton
David Sunderland
Mohammed Suroor
Gerald Sussman
Andrew Sutherland
Arne Svensson
Tarbell Family Foundation
Philip Taron
Jacob Taylor & Jean Park
Teamtrio Fund
David Thacher
The Behemoth
Robert Thomas
Jerry Thoundayil
Timothy Thousand
Zhou Tong
Roger Trimmer
Laurent Tu
Christopher Turner
Puduvankunnil Udayakumar
Rui Ueyama
Dr. Chris Uhlik & Kathryn Baganoff
James Uttley
Cumrun Vafa
Willie van der Vorm
Gregor van Egdom
Frans van Schaik
Irene & Richard Van Slyke
Sami Vanhatalo
Steven VanRoekel
Kenton Varda
Varian Partners In Giving Program
Ajit Varki
Patrick Vaughan
Mika Veikkolainen
Villazzo LLC
Paul Von Kuster
Peter Vosshall
Chad Wagner
Victoria Walsh
Dirk Walvis
James Ward
Mark Warner
Rich Warner
Linda Wehbi
Alan Weiner
Philipp Weis
Adam J. Weissman Foundation
William Weitzel
William Wenham
Jeffrey Werbalowsky
Michael Whitesage
Wikimedia Foundation Staff
John Williams
Robert Williamson
Paul Wilmes
Windmill Foundation
Peter Wiringa
B. Douglas Wood
John Wood
Lowell Wood
Mark Woodlyn
Alistair Woodman
Susan Woodward
Stephen Woolverton
Yongming Wu
Wu Xie
Peirong Xu
Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts Program
Changgao Yang
Daphne Yang
Winston Yang
Yee Family Foundation
Richard Yonash
Takeshi Yoshino
Jonathan Young
Rebecca Zatsman
ZBI Employee Allocated Gift Fund
Zen Profits LLC
Billy Zhao
Liwei Zhong
Ed Zimmer
Anonymous (68)
In 2012, the Wikimedia Foundation was chosen number one in the “Top 100 Best NGOs” by the Global Journal.
Acknowledgements
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