About Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and its sister projects, supporting free knowledge through technical infrastructure, grants and community support. A digital public-interest mission connects technology with the people who use and contribute to it. The organisation’s work brings attention to those relationships, giving online systems a wider social setting beyond their technical operation.
Hosting Wikipedia and Knowledge Projects
The Wikimedia Foundation hosts Wikipedia and its sister projects. Its role connects the availability of free knowledge with the technical environment supporting those resources, bringing nonprofit infrastructure behind widely used collaborative information projects.
Infrastructure, Grants and Community Support
Technical infrastructure sits alongside grants and community support. These activities connect the operation of online projects with the people contributing to them, giving the foundation a supporting role within the wider free knowledge community.
A Mission for Shared Knowledge
Its nonprofit purpose centres on free knowledge. The combination of hosting and community support connects readers’ access to information with the systems and resources that enable collaborative projects, giving public learning a practical technical foundation. Its activities provide routes into exploring how digital life relates to shared knowledge, participation and individual interests. This connects practical technical work with wider questions about the role of the internet in society.