Annual Report 2024-2025
In a world where knowledge is contested, pressured, and manipulated, permanence is power. The Wikimedia Endowment exists to provide that permanence. It is not just a financial instrument: it is a structural safeguard for free knowledge. When information becomes unstable, truth becomes vulnerable. Corporations rely on monetization. Disinformation thrives on volatility. An endowment does the opposite: it creates stability, independence, and long-term resilience.
President’s Message
“The Wikimedia Endowment exists because defending knowledge requires permanence. It is a long-term commitment to independence.”
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
President of the Wikimedia Endowment
Since our founding, Wikipedia has been free to access and edit. We didn’t want knowledge confined to an ivory tower. We wanted a public square open to all. And with that vision came a pledge of bold transparency: anyone, anywhere can read our editors’ discussions, explore our metadata, and trace our edit history. Participation, transparency, and accuracy are why people turn to Wikipedia when the stakes are highest, from pandemics to natural disasters.
Knowledge is Power. Throughout history, those who seek to control people have tried to control knowledge itself. Today, civic spaces are shrinking, and misinformation spreads faster than ever, eroding trust in the sources people rely on. In this fragile moment, the power of knowledge — and the ability to protect it — has never been more urgent.
The Wikimedia Endowment exists because defending knowledge requires permanence. Annual fundraising sustains Wikipedia day to day, but an endowment allows us to plan beyond the news cycle and beyond the latest technological disruption. It is a long-term commitment to independence, ensuring that Wikipedia can remain accurate, neutral, and accessible no matter how the world changes. By building enduring financial support, the Endowment strengthens the ability for volunteers to collaborate freely, protects the infrastructure that keeps knowledge open, and ensures that the power of knowledge cannot be captured, silenced, or sold.
We are living in an era where knowledge itself is contested. There are attempts to not only censor information but also to undermine trust in truth. Doctors, journalists, and academics are under attack. The next billion internet users will come online in the coming years, many in regions with fragile institutions and low press freedom. The Endowment helps ensure that when they do, Wikipedia will be a safe, trusted, and participatory space — a platform owned by the people with knowledge written by people.
The question is not only who creates knowledge, but who holds the power that knowledge brings. Your support ensures this power remains in the people’s hands. Together, we can defend facts, foster collaborative knowledge creation, and equip the next generation with the tools to understand and share the facts. Your support is not just an investment in Wikipedia: It is an investment in the future of human knowledge itself.
Remember the question posed on the day Wikipedia first went live:
“Who knows where it will go?” Well, the power to answer that question remains in our hands.
We can allow the world to descend into misinformation and let our trove of knowledge decay. Or we can work together to defend facts, debate, and deliberation. We can create knowledge the way humans were meant to — collaboratively. And we can share that power with every person, in every corner of the world.
To everyone who has already supported the Wikimedia Endowment, thank you. Your contributions are not just donations. They are acts of defense and protection. As the world around us continues to evolve, we need to remain equally resilient and innovative in our response to new challenges. Through the Wikimedia Endowment, your support becomes lasting protection for free knowledge in an uncertain world.
You are the people ensuring Wikipedia remains free, accurate, and neutral. At the core, you are the defenders of human knowledge and the power it carries. Together, we are not just preserving knowledge. We are sustaining the power it gives to people everywhere. Thank you for standing with us — and for helping shape where we go next.
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
President, Wikimedia Endowment
Treasurer’s Note
“The Wikimedia Endowment is more than a financial vehicle; it is a covenant with the future.”
Dhaval Patel
Treasurer of the Wikimedia Endowment
Since its inception in 2016, the Wikimedia Endowment has grown steadily, establishing itself as a reliable steward of free knowledge in an uncertain world. In contrast to many young endowments, which typically focus on building a corpus before spending, the Wikimedia Endowment began funding grantmaking initiatives in 2023 after reaching $100 million in value. Grantmaking continued throughout fiscal year 2024–25 in alignment with its spending policy. This milestone reflects both the confidence of our donors and the discipline of our investment strategy.
Our investment portfolio has delivered positive growth with a focus on long-term stability. This disciplined approach allows the Endowment to support the infrastructure and innovation that sustains Wikipedia and its sister projects. The Endowment serves as a critical resource for supporting Wikipedia as one of the last reliable, human-led knowledge spaces on the internet — “the last good place on the internet” — a place where the power of knowledge remains in the hands of the people.
The Endowment’s spending policy balances two essential goals: providing stable funding for the technical advancement of the Wikimedia projects while preserving the principal to safeguard long-term purchasing power. Guided by a commitment to responsible stewardship, the Endowment protects its long-term value while supporting initiatives that expand access to information, strengthen the technical infrastructure of the projects, and safeguard Wikipedia’s independence. Our target spending rate is 4% of the rolling average market value over the prior three fiscal years, with flexibility between 2.5% and 4% as approved by the Finance Committee.
Through annual budgeting and proactive planning, the Endowment allocates resources carefully to support strategic initiatives across the Wikimedia ecosystem. This framework allows grantmaking and technical investments to proceed responsibly while maintaining the long-term integrity of the corpus.
Donor contributions are central to this success. Each contribution reinforces the stability and independence of Wikimedia projects.
The Wikimedia Endowment is more than a financial vehicle; it is a covenant with the future. It allows Wikipedia to navigate uncertainty, invest in innovation, and defend human knowledge against volatility, misinformation, and the pressures of an increasingly digital world.
We are profoundly grateful to the donors who have entrusted us with this responsibility. Your support is not only an investment in Wikipedia’s present, but a commitment to its enduring role as a global public good.
Dhaval Patel
Treasurer, Wikimedia Endowment
“I have always believed that knowledge is the greatest power we have to change the world for the better—and Wikipedia plays a vital role in shaping that knowledge at a global scale. Such an important resource must remain for future generations, especially in an era of misinformation and growing distrust.”
—Donor from Canada—
The power of performance
Growing a lasting foundation for the future
The Endowment’s steady growth has strengthened its ability to support Wikimedia projects over time. Beginning in 2023, the Endowment also began funding grantmaking initiatives.
The power of community
Our Donors, our Foundation
A global community of 255,237 donors across 71 countries is helping build a lasting foundation for free knowledge.
Endowment-funded initiatives
Powering the Future of Knowledge: 2024-2025 Innovations Strengthening the Wikimedia Ecosystem
Abstract Wikipedia
Abstract Wikipedia represents a major step toward making encyclopedic knowledge accessible across languages. The initiative focuses on building a system where knowledge can be captured in a language-independent format and then rendered into many different languages.
Abstract Wikipedia
Abstract Wikipedia represents a major step toward making encyclopedic knowledge accessible across languages. The initiative focuses on building a system where knowledge can be captured in a language-independent format and then rendered into many different languages.
During the 2024-25 fiscal year, contributors from around the world expanded the growing library of functions powering this effort through the Wikifunctions platform. Thousands of new functions and implementations were created, enabling early integrations with several Wikimedia projects and languages. These integrations allow communities to begin embedding structured content generated through Wikifunctions directly into wiki pages.
Over time, this work has the potential to dramatically increase the availability of high-quality knowledge for smaller and underrepresented language communities. By allowing contributors to encode meaning once and express it in many languages, Abstract Wikipedia opens the door to a future where the breadth of knowledge available on Wikipedia is no longer limited by language barriers.
Kiwix
Kiwix helps bring Wikipedia and other free knowledge resources to people without reliable internet access. The platform allows entire collections of educational content, including Wikipedia, to be stored offline and accessed through a simple reader on phones, computers, or portable devices.
Kiwix
Kiwix helps bring Wikipedia and other free knowledge resources to people without reliable internet access. The platform allows entire collections of educational content, including Wikipedia, to be stored offline and accessed through a simple reader on phones, computers, or portable devices.
During the 2024-25 fiscal year, Kiwix improved the systems that create and distribute offline knowledge packages, allowing for more frequent and reliable updates to large knowledge collections. The project also strengthened the stability of its platform and released updates across multiple devices and operating systems.
Today, millions of people around the world rely on Kiwix to access free knowledge in places where connectivity is limited or censored — including rural schools, research facilities, refugee camps, and libraries. By supporting this work, the Endowment helps ensure that the promise of free knowledge extends beyond the connected world to communities that might otherwise be left behind.
Future Audiences
As the ways people access information evolve, Wikimedia Endowment-funded initiatives are exploring how to connect new generations to free knowledge. The Future Audiences initiative supports experimentation with new formats and platforms that introduce Wikipedia’s content to younger and emerging global audiences.
Future Audiences
As the ways people access information evolve, Wikimedia Endowment-funded initiatives are exploring how to connect new generations to free knowledge. The Future Audiences initiative supports experimentation with new formats and platforms that introduce Wikipedia’s content to younger and emerging global audiences.
This year, the initiative launched experiments that transform Wikipedia content into short educational videos for popular social media platforms. These videos reached millions of viewers worldwide, particularly young people discovering Wikipedia in new ways. The experiment generated strong engagement and rapidly growing audiences, demonstrating how Wikimedia knowledge can travel beyond traditional websites and into the platforms where people increasingly spend their time.
These early results are helping the Wikimedia movement better understand how to inspire future readers, contributors, and supporters. By supporting experimentation with new ways of sharing knowledge, the Wikimedia Endowment helps ensure that Wikipedia remains relevant and accessible to the next generation.
MediaWiki platform improvements
Behind every Wikimedia project is MediaWiki, the open-source software platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects. Maintaining and evolving this infrastructure is essential to ensuring that millions of volunteers can continue creating, improving, and sharing knowledge.
MediaWiki platform improvements
Behind every Wikimedia project is MediaWiki, the open-source software platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects. Maintaining and evolving this infrastructure is essential to ensuring that millions of volunteers can continue creating, improving, and sharing knowledge.
During the year, work supported by the Endowment strengthened the sustainability and security of the MediaWiki platform while making it easier for developers and contributors to build new features. Key improvements included platform upgrades, enhanced security and authentication systems, and new tools that support future innovation across Wikimedia projects.
These efforts also laid important groundwork for emerging initiatives, including the integration of new knowledge technologies and improved performance for readers and editors worldwide. By investing in the long-term health of the platform itself, the Endowment helps ensure that Wikipedia’s infrastructure remains resilient, adaptable, and capable of supporting the world’s largest collaborative knowledge project.
“With the proliferation of AI-generated misinformation, Wikipedia is becoming ever more important as a source of accurate, verified knowledge. It’s my go-to source before anything else.”
—Donor from Australia—
Donor stories
Defenders of human knowledge
Wikipedia exists because people around the world believe knowledge should be open, collaborative, and accessible to all. The Wikimedia Endowment helps ensure that this commitment can endure for generations to come.
Protecting knowledge requires permanence and resilience. Through their generosity, supporters of the Endowment help safeguard the independence and stability that allow Wikipedia and its sister projects to remain free, trusted, and accessible around the world.
The stories in this section reflect the individuals and families whose gifts help ensure that the power of knowledge remains in humanity’s hands.
Sustaining the Power of Knowledge
Wikipedia exists because people around the world believe knowledge should be open, collaborative, and accessible to all. The Wikimedia Endowment helps ensure that this commitment endures for generations.
Sustaining the Power of Knowledge
Wikipedia exists because people around the world believe knowledge should be open, collaborative, and accessible to all. The Wikimedia Endowment helps ensure that this commitment endures for generations.
Protecting knowledge requires permanence and resilience. Through their generosity, supporters of the Endowment help safeguard the independence and stability that allow Wikipedia and its sister projects to remain free, trusted, and accessible across the globe. While annual fundraising sustains Wikipedia day to day, the Endowment provides a long-term foundation that allows volunteers to collaborate, innovate, and share knowledge without interruption — even as the world changes.
The power of knowledge is in humanity’s hands, and our donors make that possible. Every gift to the Endowment strengthens Wikipedia’s ability to thrive independently, protecting it from the forces that seek to destabilize or control information. Your support is not just a donation: it is an investment in a resilient, long-lasting platform for free knowledge.
The stories that follow highlight the individuals and families whose generosity helps safeguard the independence, resilience, and future of Wikipedia. From those who have pledged legacy gifts through the Wikipedia Legacy Society, to donors giving from retirement accounts or monthly contributions, each gift sustains Wikipedia’s mission and ensures that knowledge remains a shared resource for generations to come.
By standing with the Wikimedia Endowment, you join a community committed to defending, sustaining, and expanding human knowledge. Together, donors and volunteers create a lasting impact: a world in which reliable information is freely available to anyone, anywhere. Thank you for your trust, your commitment, and your belief in the power of knowledge.
In a moving tribute to their daughter, Betty and Nathan Wadewitz have become members of the Wikipedia Legacy Society
For Betty and Nathan Wadewitz, the power of knowledge is personal. In a moving tribute to their daughter Adrianne, whose passion and scholarship enriched Wikipedia for a decade, they have joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society, ensuring that knowledge remains free, accurate, and in the hands of people everywhere.
In a moving tribute to their daughter, Betty and Nathan Wadewitz have become members of the Wikipedia Legacy Society
For Betty and Nathan Wadewitz, the power of knowledge is personal. In a moving tribute to their daughter Adrianne, whose passion and scholarship enriched Wikipedia for a decade, they have joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society, ensuring that knowledge remains free, accurate, and in the hands of people everywhere.
During her lifetime, Adrianne Wadewitz (User: Wadewitz) became such a prolific and inspiring editor on Wikipedia that other contributors called her everything from “awesome” to “a superstar,” and they described her Wikipedia writing as everything from “a colossal achievement” to “Wikipedia at its finest.” When Adrianne died in a rock-climbing accident in 2014, the tributes poured in from across Wikipedia and beyond. She touched so many lives not just with her own writing of Wikipedia articles but with her outsized help with other contributors’ writing, and her behind-the-scenes organizing of Wikipedia editing sessions — all done while Adrianne was an overachieving Ph.D student and a postdoctoral fellow.
Adrianne’s passing made news in major U.S. media, including the New York Times (“one of the most prolific and influential editors on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia”), the Los Angeles Times (“a force for diversifying its ranks and demystifying its inner workings”), and BuzzFeed News (“she found Wikipedia appealing as a way to spread her academic knowledge”). Adrianne’s parents, Betty and Nathan, have recently become members of the Wikipedia Legacy Society — a way, they say, to honor their only child’s commitment to the Wikimedia projects, and to help ensure that Adrianne’s work on Wikipedia, and the work of countless other Wikipedia contributors, lives on for future generations.
Donors in the Wikipedia Legacy Society pledge to make a gift to the Wikimedia Endowment through a will or other estate planning. Through Betty and Nathan’s pledge, they are helping defend the integrity of Wikipedia and sustain its role as a platform where knowledge remains in the hands of people, not corporations or governments. Giving back to the world has always been important to Betty and Nathan — a trait that they inculcated in Adrianne.
“Our whole life together as a couple — part of our goals was that we would share our resources and our talents with those around us, and the world around us, and especially charitable kinds of causes,” says Betty Wadewitz, a retired nurse and attorney. “We raised our daughter with this idea that she was blessed not necessarily with everything you want or every talent you want but that you have been blessed with something special to share with your family, with your friends, and the world at large. So we have always — even in years when incomes were low — given something to charity, usually as a percentage. Not only in life but at the time of our death, part of our legacy is to share with the world — not just with family but the world and charitable kinds of causes. And then you have to say: ‘Well, what kind of charitable causes do we want to share our resources with?’ And Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation are at the top of that list because it shares knowledge with the rest of the world. And it’s knowledge that can be maintained through the years. And as we’ve aged, we’ve learned and realized how knowledge is lost. History is lost. And we see Wikipedia as an instrument that wants to preserve and to build and maintain the knowledge. The fact that it’s accessible in 300 languages excites us. Nathan grew up bilingual and learned English later. He’s had the advantage of working in different cultures and different languages.”
A retired Lutheran pastor, Nathan grew up in southern Brazil, where he spoke Portuguese and some German before coming to the United States when he was 20. Adrianne herself traveled whenever she could, as when she went to Ukraine as a teenager during an agricultural exchange program — an example of her desire to experience things firsthand, Nathan says. It was this “see for yourself” approach that helped Adrianne in every aspect of her life, including adding knowledge to Wikipedia about female writers whose work Adrianne knew intimately. “When she was growing up in Nebraska, she realized it was a land-locked state,” says Nathan, whose father was also a pastor. “She wanted to get far away from Nebraska to experience other parts of life and part of the country, so she went as far as she could.”
After Adrianne’s passing, The New York Times wrote a special end-of-year tribute to her that included this line: “Facts enchanted Wadewitz, but she also managed to enchant them back.” That kind of enchantment is what Betty and Nathan Wadewitz saw from the beginning of their daughter’s love of the written word. Adrianne grew up in Omaha, Nebraska; moved to New York City to attend Columbia University, where she got a degree in English; moved to Bloomington, Indiana to get her Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington; and then moved to Southern California to be a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Digital Learning and Research at Occidental College. She first contributed to Wikipedia in 2004 — just three years after Wikipedia debuted on the internet.
“That talent was hers from a little girl on — to be a good writer,” Betty says. “I started law school when she was in the third grade, and when she was in the fourth grade, I was having to write something for some class, and I’m not the best writer at all. I have to work at it. For her, it was always easy. So here’s this 10-year-old, and I said, ‘Adrianne. I’m trying to say’ whatever I was trying to say. ‘This is what I’ve written, and it’s not good.’ And she said, ‘Oh, mom. Just say this (and then told me exactly what to write).’ And I said, ‘Thank you very much!’ So her gift of language and the use of words was phenomenal and we are glad she applied that gift to Wikipedia.”
Adrianne’s user page, which is still preserved, details her Wikipedia contributions. By pledging to preserve Wikipedia’s articles through their membership in the Wikipedia Legacy Society, Betty and Nathan Wadewitz have joined other donors who know that Wikipedia’s best chance to exist for future generations is for today’s generations to use the same kind of enthusiasm that Adrianne Wadewitz used in her decade-long involvement with Wikipedia. By supporting the Endowment, Betty and Nathan are helping ensure that the power of knowledge Adrianne cherished continues to be accessible to everyone, now and for generations to come.
“She always saw that what she was writing for Wikipedia would be seen by many more people than what she might write for an academic journal. If you have knowledge to share, why would you want to limit your audience?” says Betty Wadewitz, adding: “We should be encouraged to remember our family members. And one way to remember them is by helping to support things that were important to them. And Wikipedia was important to our daughter. And therefore, we want to be helpful in supporting it because we know she would have been. She did with her work. And we will try to do that with some dollars.”
“It makes a lot of sense to have a will” — Why a 25-year-old biologist joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society
At just 25 years old — the same age Wikipedia has now reached as a global knowledge resource — Kenny Cox is already thinking about the future of knowledge.
“It makes a lot of sense to have a will” — Why a 25-year-old biologist joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society
At just 25 years old — the same age Wikipedia has now reached as a global knowledge resource — Kenny Cox is already thinking about the future of knowledge. He is also just starting his career as a biologist. He says it’s an ideal profession for him since he loves the work, and “I want to be able to wake up every morning and say, ‘Oh, good: I’m going to do this for eight hours.’ And in science, you’re doing a good thing for the world.’ ” Based in Houston, United States of America, Kenny has been a Wikipedia donor since 2018. Last year, Kenny joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society, whose members pledge to make a gift to the Wikimedia Endowment through a will or other estate planning. As someone who could be considered part of “Gen Z” — the first generation to grow up with digital technology “as an established commodity” — Kenny exemplifies the vast age range of Wikipedia donors who belong to the Wikipedia Legacy Society.
Here in Kenny’s words are why he has supported Wikipedia since he was a teenager, why he joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society, and why he believes that people of any age can make a difference “indirectly” through their actions, including the action of donating to Wikipedia.
Why I First Donated to Wikipedia
I was 18 and I just started having a job, and I had a little bit of money. And I felt like Wikipedia had already — even at that age — contributed so much to my education. I’m a very curious person. I like how on Wikipedia you can get into a lot of depth. You can get really niche. You can learn anything. Also at that age, as I was thinking about the kind of person I wanted to be, I thought, “I just feel like the kind of person who’d support Wikipedia.” I feel like they’ve already contributed so much to my education. Something about Wikipedia’s messaging at the time also encouraged me to. It really felt like a grassroots movement. It didn’t feel like there’s a big corporation sponsor who was giving millions, and that my donation would be a drop in the bucket compared to that. I did feel that my donation actually means something. A lot of contributions that come into Wikipedia are actually quite small. Something about the messaging — that even $2, that even just donating the equivalent of a cup of coffee would mean something — appealed to me. So even the little bit of money that I could give would actually mean something. I started giving $20 from that point. Also in hindsight, I like to joke that “I donated for 10 of my friends.” I could hold that over people and say, “Maybe next year, you can be giving so that I don’t have to pay for you.”
Why I Joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society
I really didn’t think too much about having a will, but when I donated last year, I was prompted by Wikipedia to create one through FreeWill. I like to envision myself as a very logical person, and I thought, “It makes a lot of sense to have a will.” I had cancer when I was 15, and I’d already been through this big experience that taught me in a very important way that — not to get super dark or anything — life is a fragile thing. And that things you only thought could happen to other people could happen to you. So I got used to that idea. It didn’t bother me at the time to think about estate planning, because even though I don’t have that much to give, you never know. So when I was prompted to create the will, I thought, “OK, this makes a lot of sense” since I’d given a little bit of thought about this before, mostly in future terms — as in, “In the future, when I die and have more money to give, what would I want to give the money to?” — and I already decided that I’d want to give some of it to some kind of charity. So when I was prompted to create the will, and I answered the question, “What kind of charity would I want to give the money to?” I thought: “Well, of course! It has to be Wikipedia!” I’d been giving to Wikipedia for so long. It only makes sense that I continue that. . . . I still love Wikipedia. I still use it every day. And between 2018 and now. I started contributing (edits). So it became an even more important cause. It was really a no-brainer. Wikipedia is already such a big part of my life. It has been for so many years. It makes sense to continue this, even when I’m gone.
Why I Believe that People Can Make a Difference “Indirectly” through their Actions
I like thinking, which goes along with being a scientist. And legacy is something that I’ve thought about indirectly. I think there’s a lot of different ways that you can leave a legacy. One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is how to grow as a person, broadly speaking, and what a “good person” looks like. And one of the concepts that I’ve latched onto is that a good person helps other people but sometimes indirectly. So you’re not standing next to someone when they go about their day and saying, “Oh, you shouldn’t buy this, and you should buy this.” Many of us have a natural sense of, “Oh, what this person does is good, and I want to do it, too.” In my estate planning, deciding to give to Wikipedia goes along with that idea. If other people have seen that I give to Wikipedia, then they’ll be like, “Oh, this is something that I also can do,” and also, “Maybe I should give more when I’m alive” or “Maybe I haven’t thought about Wikipedia in a while, and I should go back.” So doing something that connects to people’s natural sense of goodness can inspire action on their part. I would want my legacy to do whatever I can at that point to inspire other people to do things that I think are good. For me, my philanthropy becomes public when I can influence other people to donate to Wikipedia, or at least check it out. I’ve had several friends who are like, “You know, Kenny — we know that you’re so into Wikipedia that I decided to go onto it more. And now I’m addicted to it, too.” So I’ve seen it happen where just being a Wikipedia buff can influence other people. So whatever part that I can do to encourage or inspire people to either donate or just check out Wikipedia is fun for me.
For Debra Scarborough, donating from her IRA account gives Wikipedia the community support “you need”
During her career as a medical librarian, including many years with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Debra Scarborough supported doctors, educators, and others by providing medical information that informed and influenced their decisions.
For Debra Scarborough, donating from her IRA account gives Wikipedia the community support “you need”
During her career as a medical librarian, including many years with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Debra Scarborough supported doctors, educators, and others by providing medical information that informed and influenced their decisions. Debra specialized in historical works, so borrowers would request everything from important medical journals to medieval books like The Byrth of Mankynde, a 16th-century tome that’s considered the English language’s first on midwifery.
Debra’s passion for knowledge — learning it, dispersing it, archiving it — made her naturally gravitate towards Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge-sharing. She’s been a Wikipedia donor since 2012, and first gave to the Wikimedia Endowment in 2019. She recently donated to the Endowment by making a QCD gift from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). Debra loves Wikipedia, but both Endowment gifts were partly prompted by a key benefit for nonprofit donors in the United States. “Taxes,” Debra says, almost laughing at her admission. “You being a 501(c)3 is a big, important part of it.”
Still, the tax benefits to Debra are just one part of her much bigger passion for Wikipedia’s future. She says that Wikipedia’s reliance on volunteer editors is a foundational strength of the encyclopedia, and that she uses Wikipedia to stay informed about almost any subject. “We’ve looked up grocery stores,” Debra says of her and her partner. “And, of course, movies. And a lot of industrial histories are totally fascinating.”
Debra’s family history is also fascinating. Her lineage includes a 17th-century English immigrant who, in the 1620s, brought one of his sons to settle in Virginia — becoming one of the first families in that American territory. Another son in the man’s family, Charles Scarborough, stayed behind, and he became a famous physician and mathematician (he has a Wikipedia article) whom King Charles II of England knighted and appointed to be a doctor. During World War II, Debra’s father flew B-17 bombers over Germany and was shot down, spending 18 months in a German prisoner-of-war camp that was made famous by the 1963 film The Great Escape. One of Debra’s cousins, Robert M. Scarborough, Jr., was a medicinal chemist who developed two important cardiac drugs: Natrecor, which is used to treat heart failure; and Integrilin, which is used to prevent blood clots, heart attacks, and death in heart patients. “I guess medical research just runs in the family,” she says. Debra says her motivation for first donating to Wikipedia in 2012 is just as true as it is today. “Back in 2012,” she says, “I really understood the need (for Wikipedia). You need donations. It’s just like public television. Or public radio. You need that community support.”
The Endowment’s status as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization means that donors in the United States may be able to deduct their contributions on their federal tax returns, reducing their overall tax liability. U.S. taxpayers age 70½ or older can also make a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) from an Individual Retirement Account. Additionally, individuals who turn 73 are generally required to take what is known as a required minimum distribution (RMD), meaning they must withdraw a certain portion of their IRA each year. If you’d like to learn more about giving by QCD, go to https://wikimediafoundation.org/give/individual-retirement-account/
Wikimedia community
A global tapestry of stories
Explore a dynamic map highlighting the experiences and contributions of Wikimedians worldwide.
She writes bona fide biographies about women
A curator and numismatist, Lucy Moore has edited Wikipedia since 2019. Her strong sense of justice led her to start editing on gender-related topics and she mostly writes biographies about women. Editing Wikipedia, she says, has made her “a better person.”
Her words make craft artists come to life
Mary Mark Ockerbloom works with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. Her personal editing often focuses on craft artists such as “Jan Yager” or women in history such as “Marie Meyer (aviator).” Mary is also a Wikimedian-In-Residence who writes about science.
The Wikimedian of the Year wears many hats on Wikipedia
Robert Sim specializes in expanding coverage of Singapore-related topics on English Wikipedia. He’s also an administrator whose editing work is fundamental to Wikipedia’s ongoing knowledge expansion.
West Africa is where it started for Konan N’da N’dri
Konan has made over 19,000 edits across Wikimedia projects, and also reviews contributions as a patroller — an editing position that’s crucial for the Wikimedia projects.
Encouraging people is his gift to Wikipedia
Eugene Agbor Egbe has mentored over 1,000 aspiring and seasoned Wikimedia tech contributors, helping to spark long-term involvement across the African continent.
Vera de Kok specializes in good photos of Wikipedia subjects
The photographer has uploaded more than 85,000 files to the Wikimedia projects, including 7,500 of her photos, which are now in over 4,000 locations across 134 language versions of Wikipedia.
Youth conference inspires ideas for Wikipedia’s future
Young contributors from around the world met and brainstormed key ways to grow their ranks on the Wikimedia projects.
Languages like Quechua are finding a home on Wikipedia
Volunteers with the Wikimedistas de Bolivia team are uploading Quechua materials to Wikimedia Commons and doing other things that are making native languages more accessible.
Anne Clin does it all on Wikipedia
She has been a prominent editor and organizer for nearly two decades across the Wikimedia projects, doing everything from becoming an administrator to being on English Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, which acts as a court of last resort for editing disputes.
The Yorùbá language goes on stage in Lagos
By organizing a major storytelling event in Nigeria, the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group contributed to the broader Wikimedia movement’s mission to document and preserve local knowledge in oral and multimedia formats.
Youth in Iraq learn from experienced contributors
Thanks to the Iraqi Wikimedians User Group, a “Wikipedia for Youth” event in Baghdad inspired participants to get actively involved in Wikipedia. On display: Mentoring, contests, fun, and more!
Wikipedia’s impact in Yemen gets a big boost
A training in Yemen benefited teachers right away, and then promised to benefit those teachers’ students. The sessions also expanded Yemen’s Wikimedia community and promoted Yemeni culture through Wikipedia.
A project devoted to butterflies and the Wikimedia projects
Butterflies dazzle in photos that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Behind the camera: veteran Wikimedia contributors and people new to the field of butterfly documentation.
Indonesian volunteers get important new trainings
Wikimedia’s Indonesian chapter partnered with UNESCO on workshops for Wikimedia contributors to address harmful content, particularly misinformation and hate speech. The sessions were in the national language (Bahasa Indonesia) and nine indigenous languages.
Japan editathon lets contributors go behind closed doors
At the Tokyo National Museum, septuagenarian contributor Yuriko Kadokura continued to add knowledge across Wikipedia — one article at a time.
Online event draws contributors from across the continent
Special meetup and edit-a-thon was dedicated to highlighting the contributions of African women in the Wikimedia movement. Many participants shared their stories of resilience, dedication, and commitment.
She calls herself “a passionate free knowledge ambassador”
A top volunteer contributor from Kenya, Carol Mwaura says her background as a librarian prepared her well to participate in the Wikimedia projects. Besides editing, she helps organize events like Wikimania.
Edit-a-thon focuses on 2025 L.A. fires
At a museum, volunteer editors “preserved” knowledge about landmarks lost to the Los Angeles wildfires that damaged or destroyed 16,000 structures and cherished spots.
Twenty years (and counting) of editing Wikipedia
In a remote part of Canada, a grandfather has become a prolific Wikipedia editor, with over 250,000 edits since 2005. His speciality: Articles related to Canada’s north.
Researchers from 11 institutions collaborated to improve Wikipedia
Ahead of a seminal United Nations conference, researchers made 100 improvements to climate change content on Wikipedia, helping to address misinformation and raise public understanding about climate change.
Historic gathering happens in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
For the first time, a regional Wikimedia conference was held in Central Asia. Participants came from Asia, Europe, and North America, and sessions were held in English, Russian, and Uzbek.
Learning to edit in Ukraine’s capital
In a program called “Wikipedia for 55+,” Wikimedia Ukraine inspired older people to begin editing the encyclopedia.
Volunteers gave the Ga language a big boost
New effort to translate 5,000 user interface messages made Wikipedia’s platform more user-friendly for native speakers of a language in Ghana.
Launch draws journalists and others to learn how to edit
The Cebuano language — one of the largest in the Philippines — has a new “WikiClub,” which gives volunteers a place to meet and partner as they contribute to the Cebuano Wikipedia.
Workshops and trainings lead to new milestone
Tulu, a Dravidian language spoken by millions of people in India, now has a home on Wikisource, a Wikimedia site that’s a library of free textual sources.
Participants united to bolster Wikipedia in the Bangla language
First-ever Bangla Wikiconference brings together volunteer contributors from Bangladesh, India, and Nepal to connect, share experiences, and improve their work on the Wikimedia projects.
Awards helped usher in a “landmark” event
On a Wikipedia language edition that’s incubating, an in-person training and edit-a-thon added articles about female artists from Northern Ghana’s Upper West Region.
New digital integration will enhance use of African knowledge
Trainings and a workshop laid the foundation for a project that will help African library resources be interlinked with Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Knowledge effort inspires more volunteers to add articles
Through words and images, the International Roma Day edit-a-thon made Roma contributions to societies more visible across Wikipedia.
1,000 musicians are now recognized at a higher level
At the Montreux Jazz Archive, a volunteer contributor expanded Wikidata’s ability to cite female musicians who’ve performed at Switzerland’s famous jazz festival.
Celebrating “Ada Lovelace Day” in a unique way
Edit-a-thon improves almost 100 Wikipedia articles about pioneering women in the interdisciplinary field of cybernetics.
“Wikipedia is a treasure trove of vetted, reviewed knowledge that improves every year. In a time of growing distrust, it remains one of the most reliable sources of information available.”
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Financial accountability
Financials
JULY 1, 2024 – JUNE 30, 2025
REPRESENTED IN US DOLLARS
| Beginning assets (market value as of July 1, 2024) | 144,325,622 |
|---|---|
| Gifts received | 11,863,214 |
| Investment gains\losses | 18,559,291 |
| Foreign currency loss | -6,648 |
| Total | 174,741,479 |
| Expenses | |
| Fundraising | 1,126,016 |
| General & Administrative | 528,442 |
| Programmatic: | 3,679,208 |
| Total Expenses | 5,333,666 |
| Market value as of June 30, 2025 | 169,407,813 |
| Change in market value in FY 24-25 | 25,082,191 |
Leadership
Leadership during the 2024-2025 Financial Year
Board of Directors
Annette Campbell-White
Board Chair and Founder, Kia Ora Foundation
Annette Campbell-White is an accomplished executive venture capitalist with a proven track record of leadership as a founding or lead investor into successful companies that have created groundbreaking biomedical technologies.
Widely recognized as a pioneer for women in venture capital investment, Annette was the first biotechnology analyst on Wall Street and the first female partner at Hambrecht & Quist, a leading international investment banking firm. From 1986 until her retirement in 2015, Annette was Founder and Senior Managing Partner of MedVenture Associates, a biomedical venture capital firm. There, Annette initiated MedVenture investments in emerging biomedical technologies, such as companies that produced the first off-fingerstick glucose blood-testing monitor, the first cervical disk implant, and the first digital hearing aid.
A strong supporter of the arts, Annette has served on the boards of several performing arts associations, including the San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances. In 1997, she established the Kia Ora Foundation, (www.kiaora.org), whose scholarships for post-graduate music students from New Zealand enable study abroad. Her memoir, Beyond Market Value; A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital, was published in 2019.
Phoebe Ayers
Librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phoebe Ayers is a long-time editor in English Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, and other Wikimedia projects. A former Wikimedia Foundation Board Trustee, she has become a seasoned participant in Wikimedia Foundation governance, as well as community events, including many Wikimania conferences, and outreach to educators and librarians. Ayers has been an academic reference librarian in the science and engineering library at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2015. Prior, she was a librarian in the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library at the University of California, Davis.
Laura Duchâtelet
Founder, LD&U
Laura Duchâtelet is a Belgian facilitator, philanthropist, and the owner of a small business that facilitates team building among professionals. She is a board member of Elex, leading their philanthropy committee. Laura studied Economics at the University of Antwerp, earning an undergraduate degree; she earned her Master’s degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Laura and her family have also been longtime financial supporters of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Mayree Clark
Founder, Eachwin Capital
Mayree Clark is a former director of the Stanford University Endowment. She brings a diverse background in investment banking, equity research, and investment management to the Wikimedia Endowment Board. Mayree spent over 20 years at Morgan Stanley, where she held various leadership roles, including deputy to the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of finance company MSCI. After leaving Morgan Stanley, Mayree joined the investment management industry and later founded Eachwin Capital, an investment management firm.
She has served on the boards of Ally Financial, Taubman, and Deutsche Bank AG, contributing her expertise in risk management, governance, and corporate turnaround. Mayree is also involved in multiple philanthropic organizations and holds degrees from the University of Southern California and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She has been a dedicated donor to the Wikimedia Foundation since 2007.
Peter Baldwin
Co-Founder, Arcadia Fund
Peter Baldwin is a professor of history at UCLA, Global Distinguished Professor at NYU, and co-founder of the Arcadia Foundation. Since 2002, Arcadia has given away close to one billion dollars to safeguard cultural heritage, preserve the environment, and support open access.
His scholarly work deals with the development of the modern state in Europe and the US over the past two centuries. He has written books on the welfare state, on public health and contagious disease, and on copyright. His latest books are on the covid pandemic (Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was Tackled So Differently across the Globe, on the deep history of crime and its prevention (Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History) and on open access (Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All).
He also serves on the boards of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, the Central European University, and is chair of the Board of the Center for Jewish History.
You can read more about Peter on the blog.
Patricio Lorente
General Secretary of Administration, National University of La Plata
Patricio Lorente of City Bell, Argentina is a scholar devoted to outreach activities in education. He is currently the General Secretary of Administration of the National University of La Plata. Lorente joined Spanish Wikipedia as an editor in early 2005 and has been an administrator since 2006. He is a founding member of Wikimedia Argentina and served as president from 2007 – 2012. He was selected as a Wikimedia Foundation Board Trustee in the years 2012, 2014, and 2016. He served as chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board from July 2015 through June 2016.
Doron Weber
Vice President of Programs, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Doron Weber currently serves as Vice President of Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Weber is a graduate of Brown University (B.A) and studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford University (M.A., 1981), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. At the Sloan Foundation, he runs the Public Understanding of Science and Technology Program, with national programs in science and the arts, and the Universal Access to Knowledge Program, which has supported the Wikimedia Foundation since 2008. A published author, Doron has been a Wikimedia Foundation Board Visitor since 2011, mentored by Jan-Bart de Vreede.
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia Project
Internet and technology entrepreneur Jimmy Wales is founder of the online nonprofit encyclopedia Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc., including its entertainment media brand, Fandom powered by Wikia. Wales serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit charitable organization he established to operate Wikipedia.
In April 2017, Jimmy launched WikiTribune — a news website involving professional journalists working alongside volunteers to curate fact checked and reliable articles. In 2006, Jimmy was named in Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” for his role in creating Wikipedia.
Alexander M. Farman-Farmaian
Vice Chairman, Partner and Portfolio Manager, Edgewood Management
Alexander M. Farman-Farmaian is Vice Chairman, Partner and Portfolio Manager at Edgewood Management. He joined in January 2006, implementing the current valuation approach for the firm. He served as Director of Research, and produces the “Economents™”, an economic and financial markets update. Prior to Edgewood, Alex was for 19 years a senior member of the Portfolio Management team at W.P. Stewart & Co., and chaired the Investment Oversight Committee.
Lisa Lewin
Senior Advisor, Primary Venture Partners
Lisa Lewin is a strategist and operating executive with over 25 years of experience leading and advising private and social sector organizations. As Senior Advisor at Primary, she partners with Founders to accelerate their evolution into world-class CEOs.
She was most recently CEO of General Assembly, which has built accessible tech career pathways for over one million people and diverse talent pipelines for hundreds of leading employers globally. Prior, she spent a decade driving digital transformation at scale in the publishing sector in senior executive roles with Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Lisa has co-founded various companies and projects, including impact consulting firm Ethical Ventures, e-learning content creator Mindgate Media, and civic membership organization The Leadership Now Project.
Lisa serves on the boards of Custom Ink and the Wikimedia Endowment. She is the co-author of the Business for Racial Equity Pledge, and has been named a PoliticsNY Power Player. Lisa received a B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Staff Leadership
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
President, Wikimedia Endowment
Lisa Seitz Gruwell is the Deputy to the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that supports Wikipedia, and President of the Wikimedia Endowment. She leads the foundation’s Advancement Department, which is tasked with growing the global community of volunteers who edit Wikipedia and creating and implementing the revenue strategy for the Wikimedia projects.
Lisa helps lead the foundation’s work to support the global community of volunteers who edit Wikipedia through grants, campaigns, and partnerships. She oversees $20 million in grants to a network of over 200 Wikimedia affiliates, user groups, and partners who help recruit, train, and organize Wikimedia’s over 280,000 active volunteers. She has prioritized community growth in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East to expand access to knowledge. Her teams also support campaigns to close the gender gap on Wikipedia by recruiting more women editors and supporting efforts to create more biographies of notable women. They build partnerships and collaborations with libraries, museums, archives, and publishers to expand content on Wikipedia, preserve culture and heritage resources for all, and give volunteer editors free access to paywalled information sources. In this role, she also oversees the foundation’s initiatives to develop skills and peer learning networks within the volunteer community.
Lisa steers fundraising and revenue generation strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation. During her tenure at the foundation, annual revenue has grown from $30 million to over $200 million. Her teams have built a robust global reader donation program, with over 7 million people from every continent donating an average of $15 each year. In addition to direct donations, Lisa has prioritized building new, diversified revenue streams that will sustain the Wikimedia projects for the long term. In 2016, she launched the Wikimedia Endowment, a permanent fund of over $150 million, which makes grants to support the technical innovation of the Wikimedia projects. In 2020, her team launched Wikimedia Enterprise, which provides scaled services to Wikimedia content for the largest reusers.
Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Lisa was the COO of a family foundation and social innovation incubator in Silicon Valley and worked for then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Lisa grew up in Montana, where she developed a deep love of nature and enjoys finding new hiking trails everywhere she travels.
Dhaval Patel
Treasurer, Wikimedia Endowment
Dhaval Patel is a seasoned investment leader with a proven track record of managing multi-billion-dollar portfolios and driving strategic financial outcomes. In his current role as the Treasurer of the Wikimedia Endowment and the Principal of Investments of the Wikimedia Foundation, he oversees the full asset management lifecycle across the two entities, ensuring disciplined portfolio management, complex financial planning, robust risk oversight, and sustainable growth.
Dhaval oversaw a $1.5B+ portfolio at a major philanthropic organization, guiding mission-aligned investment strategies and optimized capital deployment. Before that, he led another $1.5B+ portfolio for NORCAL Mutual, focusing on treasury management and long-term investment asset allocation.
With deep expertise in portfolio management, investment analysis, enterprise risk management, and manager evaluation, Dhaval brings a highly analytical and quantitative approach to every decision. His knowledge spans the full spectrum of asset classes and economic sectors, supported by a strong foundation in asset-liability management, modern portfolio theory, and corporate finance. He is adept at financial modeling, M&A analysis, capital structure optimization, and investment accounting under GAAP and IFRS standards.
Known for his emotional intelligence and collaborative leadership style, Dhaval has years of experience building relationships, leading teams, and executing complex programs. He thrives in demanding environments, combining diligence and autonomy with a commitment to excellence.
Dhaval earned his MBA from the University of Washington and is a CFA Charterholder, underscoring his dedication to professional rigor and ethical investment practices.
Charles M. Roslof
Secretary and Legal Counsel, Wikimedia Endowment
Charles “Chuck” M. Roslof serves as the Secretary of the Wikimedia Endowment, providing governance support and ensuring the Endowment’s legal and organizational integrity. He is also Principal Legal Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he oversees the global trademark portfolio, supports the Board of Trustees, and advises teams working across grant-making, fundraising, and the Wikimedia affiliate network. Chuck works on matters involving copyright, licensing, and public policy. He joined the Foundation’s legal team in 2015 and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Computer Science, with minors in linguistics and Japanese, from Georgetown University.
Donors
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Thank You to Our Defenders of Knowledge
We are deeply grateful to the generous benefactors of the Wikimedia Endowment. Your unwavering support guarantees the long-term sustainability and growth of Wikimedia projects, enabling millions around the world to access free, encyclopedic knowledge for generations to come.
- Arcadia
- King Baudouin Foundation
- Alex & Patricia Farman-Farmaian
- MathWorks
- I.W. Foundation
- Ike and Ellen Kier
- Gupta Family Foundation
- The Aber D. Unger Foundation
- Steven and Sandra Berglund
- Graeme Birchall
- Kevin Bonebrake and Winnie Scheuer
- Samuel Bowen
- Chris and Jennifer Brahm
- Annette Campbell-White
- In honor of David Colander
- Guy and Helen Connolly
- Disney Employee Matching Gifts
- Peter Gadwa
- Emily and Sam Glick
- Edwin A. Goodman
- Holly Gray
- Marie Griffin and Robert Coffey
- Kiwan Gu
- The Keough Family Foundation
- Jeremy Levine & Yael Taqqu
- In memory of Richard and Virginia Neufeld
- Manish Pandya
- Madeleine Richard
- Tim and Mary Riordan
- Edward and Elaine Shoben
- Doug Standing
- Albert & Candace Staton
- Diana Strassmann and Jeff Smisek
- Fred Thorlin
- Cynthia C. Wainwright and Stephen Berger
- K.L. Won
- Anonymous donors
- Kathleen and Jack Applewhite
- Brent Blumenstein and Anne Ryan
- Roger and Helen Bohl
- Charles H. and Ellen D. Brown
- David Carter
- In memory of Dileep Jivanlal Champaneria
- Niranjan and Savita Chandragiri
- Crystal Chen
- Juan Cockburn
- John Dove
- The Eubanks Memorial Trust
- Jennifer V. Furman
- Mary and Paul Henry
- P. Goetze
- Jack Goodman
- Loretta Montanari Gottshall
- Alan Gould
- Terence E. Gray
- Jack Hetherington
- David A Johnson
- Jay Jones
- Elizabeth and Albert Kidd
- Kim and Jesse Kinder
- Sally Lawrence and David Lai
- Phillip Lawson
- Jerry LeClaire
- Richard Lenon and Leslie Hsu
- Ken Lipper
- Scott Mackie and Alison Platt
- In memory of my sister MADELEINE
- Alexander Main
- Goran & Kelly Marnfeldt
- Sydney McDole and Naresh Lakhanpal
- Minassian Media
- Perry Mitchell
- Mildred B and Radhe Mohan For The Mohan Family Fund
- Jasmine Nabi
- Anil Nai
- Robert Ordal
- Terry Rossow
- Philip and Reggie Roy
- Scott Satterwhite
- Rogil Schroeter
- The Sigler Family
- Martin Smith
- Mike Speciner
- Bill Spindler
- In Memory of Marilyn McDonald
- Bruce G. Stewart
- Elizabeth Story
- Jon Thaler
- Michael Thonis
- Kit Transue
- Jack Triplett
- Caitlin Virtue
- Beverly and Darrell Weaver
- Bruce Whiting
- Anonymous donors
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation
Explore how the Wikimedia Foundation supports the people, technology, and global community behind Wikipedia in the 2024–2025 Annual Report. Through the story of a single Wikipedia article, discover how thousands of contributions come together to build knowledge that the world relies on every day.
Help Ensure Wikipedia’s Future
Giving today
The Wikimedia Endowment ensures that Wikipedia and the related projects will continue to provide the world with high-quality encyclopedic knowledge now and into the future. Making a gift today is the simplest way to ensure that Wikipedia remains strong, stable, and always there when you need it. There are many ways to make a gift, including online, through a Donor Advised Fund, gifts of stock, Qualified Charitable Distributions, Charitable Gift Annuities, or a legacy gift, such as naming us in your will. To learn more, visit wikimediaendowment.org.
Giving tomorrow
Your love of Wikipedia can live on by including Wikimedia in your estate plans. By naming the Wikimedia Endowment in your will or as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or insurance policy, you can leave a legacy that will benefit the next generation of Wikipedia readers. To learn more, email legacy@wikimedia.org.
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