Annual Report 2023-2024
The internet we were promised
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Message from the CEO
“This report invites you to see the many ways your support has made a difference for the billions of people who rely on Wikipedia.”
Maryana Iskander
CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
As the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, I regularly reflect on what Wikipedia has accomplished, and I imagine new ways that Wikipedia can achieve even more now and in the future. It’s a deeply collaborative role, and every day, I have the privilege of working alongside the talented staff at the Foundation and the committed volunteers around the world who enrich Wikipedia and its sister projects with knowledge. Their dedication, combined with the generosity of our donors, makes Wikipedia’s success possible. This Annual Report covers another remarkable year for Wikipedia, a testament to the millions of people like you who came together to make a meaningful impact.
The stories in this year’s report highlight diverse aspects of our collective work. Whether it was a new data center that gave millions of users faster access, or innovative tools that gave Wikipedia’s editors crucial new ways to expand and enrich its knowledge base, our report details the many ways that Wikipedia and its sister projects embody the highest ideals of the internet — or as we like to think of it, “The Internet We Were Promised.”
“The Internet We Were Promised” is this year’s theme, and reflects the vision that we’re realizing with your generosity. Throughout each year, I provide key progress updates, and the Wikimedia Foundation’s staff regularly reports on progress aligned to our Annual Plan. Each Annual Report brings these accomplishments together, allowing you to seamlessly explore one story after another. Much like the links between Wikipedia articles that lead to deeper discovery, this report invites you to see the many ways your support has made a difference for the billions of people who rely on Wikipedia.
With more than 60 million articles on every conceivable topic, Wikipedia’s human-led knowledge — rigorously sourced and written from a neutral point of view — is more important than ever. By being an active supporter of the Wikimedia projects, you ensured that the year we document here was as effective and impactful as it could be. I know you’ll see a lot to be thrilled by and proud.
So, thank you so much for your support. A single year in the life of Wikipedia sets up the momentum for every year that follows. It’s a powerful process that’s always collaborative — just like Wikipedia itself.
With gratitude,
Maryana
Maryana Iskander
Wikimedia Foundation CEO
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An internet for everyone
Stories
How Wikipedia got better than ever in 2023-2024
The Wikipedia that you read today is different from the Wikipedia that you’ve read in previous years. It has more knowledge than ever. It has more languages than ever. And it has something else that continues to make Wikipedia unique in the world: It’s the largest shared knowledge source in human history — a compendium of more than 60 million articles that more people rely on than ever. The more the world changes, the more the world turns to Wikipedia.
Technical breakthroughs benefited millions and millions of users. One of the year’s highlights: dark mode!
At the end of the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation made dark mode available on a wide number of Wikimedia projects, which prompted celebrations among users.
Technical breakthroughs benefited millions and millions of users. One of the year’s highlights: dark mode!
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Its name evokes images of outer space at night, but “dark mode” is a down-to-earth software feature that lets users — including those with visual impairments — read website pages with less eye strain. At the end of the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation made dark mode available on a wide number of Wikimedia projects, which prompted celebrations among users, including from one user who said our announcement was “the biggest news on the day for me.”
Dark mode, which is also called “night mode,” is a breakthrough on Wikipedia, enhancing the reading experience and establishing a feature widely requested by editors. Dark-mode users say it improves screen readability in low-light environments — which goes beyond the importance of simply reading Wikipedia. The American Academy of Ophthalmology, for example, recommends dark mode for those using a computer screen at night since the blue light from screens, it says, can interrupt a body’s circadian rhythm and disrupt sleep.
Until recently, dark mode wasn’t possible on Wikipedia due to technical challenges, especially the amount of manual work required to update the colors of templates and other content to ensure dark mode’s accessibility. However staff members on the Wikimedia Foundation’s web team were able to collaborate with technical volunteers to address those challenges — a partnership that ultimately led to dark mode’s debut. So important were the volunteers’ contributions that Jon Robson, who headed the work’s engineering part, created a dedicated web page to thank the volunteers for their intricate technical help. Robson’s post announcing the debut of dark mode ended with a simple hope: that readers enjoy the new experience. But behind that wish is something bigger. Dark mode represents the culmination of countless hours of effort — not just by one person, but by a global community of volunteers and staff working together in service of millions of Wikipedia readers. It’s a reminder that Wikipedia is built not for profit or praise, but for people. This is what collaboration looks like. This is what the internet we were promised can still be.
What is the bigger context of Wikipedia’s dark mode? Throughout the year, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Product and Technology departments work diligently to improve the resilience, security, and scalability of our projects’ technology infrastructure — all to ensure that Wikipedia remains fast, reliable, and accessible to users worldwide, even during periods of extraordinary demand.
Further Breakthroughs during 2023-2024 included:
- “Expanding Machine in Translation (MinT),” a project by the Language Team that makes it easier than ever to translate articles and information on the Wikimedia projects. MinT is used by volunteers to translate information in more than 150 languages — many of them languages that are underrepresented on the internet, 44 for which MinT is the first and only tool available for translation.
- “Community Configuration 2.0,” an initiative that is helping volunteer administrators on the Wikimedia projects configure editing tools more easily — which is leading to better edits across Wikipedia. It was built on a software extension that helps communities customize features to meet their unique needs.
- The Wikimedia Foundation’s first data center in South America, which is giving millions of people better access to Wikipedia’s knowledge base — lowering pageload times, and improving user experience.
Bolstering women’s biographies means bettering knowledge for everyone on Wikipedia
Behind the scenes of every article that appears on Wikipedia is a lineup of people who cared deeply about that article’s subject.
Bolstering women’s biographies means bettering knowledge for everyone on Wikipedia
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Behind the scenes of every article that appears on Wikipedia is a lineup of people who cared deeply about that article’s subject. Articles take time to be created and curated, and the volunteer writers and editors who spend time on Wikipedia benefit from any uptick in the behind-the-scenes support that helps them expand Wikipedia’s knowledge base. That’s why the 2023-2024 fiscal year was so important for helping to close what has been one of Wikipedia’s most persistent knowledge gaps: articles about women.
When women’s stories, achievements, and contributions are missing, the public’s understanding of history, science, culture, and countless other fields is incomplete. A more balanced Wikipedia means a more accurate and comprehensive record of human knowledge, benefiting everyone who turns to the site for learning and discovery.
This is especially important in today’s world of generative AI tools, as almost every large language model out there has been trained on Wikipedia data. Because of how much people use and rely on Wikipedia, it is critical that it represents all the world’s people and knowledge.
During the year the Wikimedia Foundation worked with volunteer editors and affiliate organizations to undertake myriad initiatives to help address the lack of articles including:
- We provided support for WikiWomen Summit and WikiWomen Camp — two important gatherings for editors and organizers who are working to share more information about women on Wikipedia. The Foundation’s support helped alleviate the administrative and coordination burden that volunteers faced to organize these key in-person meetings and strategic events.
- We bolstered the way we supported organizers who are bringing in newcomers and retaining contributors interested in addressing the issue. The Foundation’s support included improving the Organizer Lab, a 12-week online training course that hones the skills that organizers need to run consistent, high-impact campaigns that invite new contributors to edit Wikipedia.
- We supported the work of contributors interested in addressing the content gap in women’s biographies and women’s health. The Foundation worked closely with our affiliate in Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia, in their partnership with the United Nations Population Fund that focused on adding and improving Indonesian-language Wikipedia articles about women’s health.
Also in the year, the Foundation launched the “Wikipedia Needs More Women” campaign, which encouraged people around the world to help improve Wikipedia by adding and improving articles about notable women. The campaign featured two explanatory webpages, and reached millions of people around the world. It also amplified the work that Wikimedia volunteers do each year during Women’s History Month and directed audiences to join in on the global activities. Since then, the number of biographies on English Wikipedia about women has surpassed the 20 percent threshold.
Fittingly, the news of the breakthrough broke on the website of Women in Red, an editing project that began in 2015 to address Wikipedia’s content disparity. No one group can close a knowledge gap on Wikipedia, and scores of volunteer groups like Women in Red and volunteer editors like Jess Wade are trying — one article at a time — to enhance Wikipedia’s knowledge about women. Bolstering that knowledge means bettering knowledge for everyone on Wikipedia. That’s why the Wikimedia Foundation celebrates the progress that was made across Wikipedia in 2023-2024. As Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, a prominent Women in Red organizer (and former Wikimedia Foundation Trustee) said after the 20-percent breakthrough was announced: “This is huge news for anyone who uses the internet… How incredible that we did this together!”
“Doing this together” is a common occurrence on Wikipedia. In fact, it’s the collaborative effort that makes closing knowledge gaps that much more meaningful to announce. Strengthening women’s representation ensures that future generations encounter a fuller, richer, and more truthful reflection of the world — one where all contributors to society are recognized and documented.
Protecting access to Wikipedia — and the contributors who add knowledge — was a top priority throughout the year
Reliable information has always been the bedrock of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation’s other free knowledge projects, and it’s especially crucial now when misinformation is so common.
Protecting access to Wikipedia — and the contributors who add knowledge — was a top priority throughout the year
Reliable information has always been the bedrock of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation’s other free knowledge projects, and it’s especially crucial now when misinformation is so common. Wikipedia is an important bulwark against misinformation on the internet, and that’s one reason why protecting access to Wikipedia’s knowledge, and why protecting the people who add knowledge to Wikimedia’s projects, is more important than ever.
During the 2023-2024 fiscal year, teams across the Wikimedia Foundation were proactive in providing support and advocating for readers and for contributors. Two teams in particular drive this work forward: Human Rights, which supports the safety and security of volunteers who are at risk of persecution, reprisal, or harassment for their good-faith participation in the Wikimedia projects; and Global Advocacy, which advocates for public policies that promote and support access to the knowledge on Wikimedia’s projects.
Below are just two examples from these teams’ efforts of the past year, with names of people and specific countries withheld to protect the identities of the volunteers:
- A community member covering large-scale protests in their city was arrested and detained as a result of their contributions to Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia community rallied around the volunteer, and the Human Rights Team mobilized local and regional support immediately to help secure an attorney. The volunteer was subsequently released.
- A prominent community member was repeatedly threatened by authorities and members of their government, forcing them to flee and seek asylum. The Human Rights Team worked to support the volunteer’s security and asylum process. Throughout this challenging ordeal the volunteer has continued to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
The scope of the Wikimedia projects demands that the Wikimedia Foundation be proactive — as active as the projects’ hundreds of thousands of volunteers, some of whom find themselves in extraordinary situations, even as they continue to add knowledge that benefits the world.
Transparency and accountability continued to be hallmarks of our operations — and our planning for the future
The Wikimedia Foundation makes all our numbers transparent. All our audits, all our Forms 990 (the tax form that U.S. nonprofits file with the government), and all our Annual Plans are available on our website.
Transparency and accountability continued to be hallmarks of our operations — and our planning for the future
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One of the most respected benchmarks in the nonprofit world is a 75% program-expense ratio — the portion of a nonprofit’s budget ideally spent directly on programs. Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofit operations, uses this ratio to measure effectiveness. They typically consider a ratio of 65% or higher to be acceptable, with anything above 75% seen as exceptional. In the two years leading up to the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation’s program-expense ratio was 76.6% and 76.0%. For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, we aimed even higher and achieved 77.5%.
The Wikimedia Foundation makes all our numbers transparent. All our audits, all our Forms 990 (the tax form that U.S. nonprofits file with the government), and all our Annual Plans are available on our website. We believe that transparency goes beyond sharing numbers — every year, we work to make our finances accessible and understandable, contextualizing and explaining the numbers so that donors and community members can have clear insight into how we use funds to further Wikimedia’s mission. It’s this commitment to transparency, along with things like our program-expense ratio, funding-efficiency ratio, and liabilities-to-assets ratio that secured the Wikimedia Foundation a 99%, four-out-of-four-star rating from Charity Navigator, its highest star rating for nonprofits.
Transparency and accountability have always been hallmarks for the Wikimedia Foundation, as has been our commitment to plan for the future. All these things continued in the 2023-2024 year, exemplified by the Wikimedia Endowment, which is protecting Wikipedia for future generations while also strengthening Wikipedia day by day, as well as by Wikimedia Enterprise, which is a service focused on high-volume commercial reusers of Wikimedia content. Both the Wikimedia Endowment and Wikimedia Enterprise reached new milestones in the year, with the Endowment now at $144 million — an increase of $25 million. The Endowment also became its own 501(c)(3) charitable organization, which means it can better support the Wikimedia projects for the long term. Meanwhile, Wikimedia Enterprise brought in $3.4 million of revenue — an increase from the previous year. Enterprise and the Endowment are diversifying the Wikimedia Foundation’s revenue streams while supporting the future sustainability of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation’s other free knowledge projects.
All these numbers speak to the successful outcome of a key Annual Plan goal: Strengthen the Wikimedia Foundation’s overall performance for the greater good of the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to fostering the projects through rigorous accountability, sustainable funding, and widespread community support that advances the projects for everyone who uses them.
Conclusion
Wikipedia’s story is your story, too
Every year in the life of Wikipedia and its sister projects is a year of close collaboration across continents. By working with volunteers who number in the hundreds of thousands, and by using funding that comes from millions of generous donors, the Wikimedia Foundation aims to shepherd those projects toward new achievements that can make everyone proud.
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wikimedia COMMUNITY
A global tapestry of stories
Explore a dynamic map highlighting the experiences and contributions of Wikimedians worldwide.
Our first data center in South America is a gamechanger
The center in Brazil is giving millions of people better access to Wikipedia’s knowledge base — lowering pageload times, and making users’ connections much more secure and private.
Dark mode is transforming Wikipedia’s accessibility
The important feature lets users — including those with visual impairments — read Wikipedia pages with less eye strain.
New translation service brings more of the world’s languages to Wikipedia
MinT, which stands for “Machine in Translation,” is a groundbreaking language translation tool that helps Wikipedia editors more seamlessly translate content
WikiWomen Camp bridged the gender gap in South Asia
Held for the first time in six years, the camp created a supportive space for women contributors to connect, learn, and collaborate on initiatives that amplify their impact on the Wikimedia projects.
Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon is first of its kind
Innovative mentorship program connected experienced contributors with newcomers from across the continent interested in contributing to Wikimedia’s technical spaces.
Wikimedia Foundation receives a clean audit for 18th straight year
Report details the strong financial position that the Foundation is in — and that the vast majority of our revenue came from the generosity of donors.
Fundraising report shows that a wide swath of the world supports the Foundation’s projects
Eight million donors gave in the fiscal year — with donations from more than 200 countries. The Wikimedia Foundation also worked closely with Wikimedia volunteers during the year’s fundraising campaigns.
Wikimedia Foundation CEO calls on governments to protect Wikipedia’s volunteer editors
At a high-level side event during the United Nations General Assembly, Maryana Iskander urged governments to support the global community of volunteers who share knowledge across Wikimedia projects.
Foundation announces a new repository of anti-disinformation initiatives and tools
Developed at the local level across the Wikimedia projects, the repository captures efforts to curb false and misleading information on Wikipedia and on other sites that millions of people use every day.
Wikimedian of the Year is youngest-ever awardee
Even at 21, Hannah Clover has made more than 24,000 edits. She also has administrator rights — which is one of the highest ranks an editor can have.
At a notable African conference sponsored by the Foundation, attendees did important work around digital rights
At the Digital Rights and Inclusion Conference — a major regional forum in which digital policies and internet governance in Africa are debated and shaped — participants focused on such key issues as protecting Wikipedia from disinformation.
Selena Deckelmann gives her inside view of how the Foundation’s technology has changed for the better
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Chief Product and Technology Officer explains how Wikipedia and its sister projects can be a multigenerational success as it continues to stay relevant for decades to come
How searching for images got much better on Wikimedia Commons
The free repository of more than 100 million media files is now easier to use when you look for photos that matter the most.
A new night school for seniors inspired scores of people to contribute to Wikipedia
Six-week courses in the Czech Republic are prompting seniors there to add knowledge to articles. “It’s been fun so far,” said one.
To get Flickr images on Wikimedia Commons, there’s now “Flickypedia”
The Wikimedia Foundation collaborated with the non-profit Flickr Foundation to make it easier to illustrate Wikipedia with high-quality, relevant photography from Flickr.
AI is helping the Foundation engage better with users while maintaining the integrity of human-generated content.
Our “Future Audiences” work is exploring strategies for expanding our projects’ reach beyond existing audiences of readers, content reusers, and contributors — which is a crucial initiative as we accelerate innovations that engage diverse audiences as editors and contributors.
A campaign designed to increase Wikipedia articles about women did just that
As part of a community-wide effort, the Foundation highlighted the need to add more knowledge about women — whether it was adding articles to Wikipedia or doing other crucial behind-the-scenes work.
An updated tool helped organizers create and manage their events even better on the Wikimedia projects
Hundreds of events are benefiting from the tool, which allows participants to sign up and receive timely updates — and to do so much, much more as they add knowledge across the Wikimedia projects.
The Foundation streamlined our ability to provide translations of core documentation and communications
We’re now able to support more than 30 languages in our communications with the projects’ worldwide community — an increase from just six languages in the recent past.
At a nunnery in Bhutan, nuns are adding knowledge to the burgeoning Wikipedia edition of the Dzongkha language
The language is a Tibeto-Burman language that’s the official and national language of Bhutan. Written using the Tibetan script, it has fewer than 500 articles for now.
Honoring 17 Years of Service: DerHexer, Wikimedia Laureate
Martin, known as DerHexer, is Wikimedia’s longest-serving Steward, with nearly two decades of contributions across Wikipedia, Commons, and Meta. He is known for behind-the-scenes technical and administrative support, and has been instrumental in keeping Wikimedia projects safe and efficient for global users.
Designing the Spirit of the Movement: Kurmanbek, Media Contributor of the Year
Caner Özyayıkçı (Kurmanbek) brings Wikimedia communities to life through graphic design, crafting visual identities for campaigns, conferences, and mascots. His work helps connect cultures and tell Wikimedia’s story through design rooted in tradition and creativity.
A Wikipedia in Wayuunaiki: The Wayuu Community, Newcomers of the Year
The Wayuu community launched the Wayuunaiki Wikipedia in 2023, enabling Indigenous knowledge to be shared in their own language. The work of Leonardi Fernández and the Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group was essential in overcoming digital and geographic barriers.
Quiet Dedication: Ата, Functionary of the Year
Vira Motorko (Ата) is known for tackling overlooked but essential work on Ukrainian Wikipedia—improving templates, interfaces, translations, and documentation. Her edits contribute to language equity, accuracy, and accessibility for Ukrainian speakers.
Championing Diversity: Gu Eun-ae, Honorable Mention
As Director of Wikimedia Korea, Gu Eun-ae (Motoko C. K.) has advanced knowledge equity by leading initiatives on youth engagement and knowledge gaps—including improving content on HIV/AIDS in Korean Wikipedia.
From Scripts to Systems: Siddharth VP, Tech Contributor of the Year
Siddharth VP is the 2024 Tech Contributor of the Year for his work on the MediaWiki platform and tools like Twinkle and the Draft Submission Interface. His contributions have improved the user experience for thousands of newcomers.
Advocating for Freedom of Panorama in South Africa
Since 2012, Wikimedia South Africa has been advocating for a Freedom of Panorama exception in copyright law to allow photographs of public monuments, including those commemorating post-apartheid history, to be freely shared. The chapter has played a key role in the decade-long legislative process, building coalitions, shaping public discourse, and testifying in Parliament.
Rampak Mekar: Growth and Celebration at WikiNusantara 2024
Held under the theme “Rampak Mekar” (“blooming together” in Sundanese), WikiNusantara 2024 brought together over 100 volunteers across Indonesia for four days of collaboration, learning, and celebration. Highlights included the launch of several new Wikimedia projects in local languages, workshops on social media and grant writing, partnerships with Google, UNFPA, and UNESCO, and awards recognizing outstanding contributors.
Told Cities: Documenting the Living Legacy of UNESCO World Heritage Cities
Through the Told Cities project, Wiki World Heritage is documenting the cultural and historical richness of World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. In Guatemala, the Centro Regional De Patrimonio is leading efforts to preserve and share the heritage of Antigua Guatemala. Similar collaborations are also underway in Ethiopia (Harar Jugol) and Senegal (Saint-Louis and Île de Gorée).
Bringing Offline Knowledge to Classrooms: Kiwix in Tanzania
After discovering Kiwix at WikiIndaba 2022 and deepening their knowledge through a mentorship program in 2023, Pellagia Njau and Hussein Issa launched the Kiwix4Schools initiative in Tanzania. The program has already reached over 150 students and 25 teachers by installing Kiwix and training participants in offline access to Wikipedia and educational content.
Elevating First Nations Music on Wikipedia
As part of The Record: Australian Music on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Australia named Bianca Valentino its first-ever First Nations Wikipedian in Residence. Hosted at the State Library of Queensland, Bianca is enriching Wikipedia with stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians, using archives, oral histories, and her experience as a writer and music zine editor.
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Financial Accountability
Navigating the numbers: An overview of the Wikimedia Foundation’s financial position
Accountability and transparency are foundational to the Wikimedia Foundation’s core values. We are dedicated to managing funds and resources in a way that ensures every contribution supports our mission of advancing knowledge for all.
In recognition of our commitment to these principles, we have earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid (formerly GuideStar), and Charity Navigator has awarded us its highest rating of four stars.
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Nearly half of our budget goes toward supporting the technology that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. We are constantly working to enhance the user experience for both contributors and readers, improve site security, and ensure reliable access to our websites globally. This infrastructure and product support sustain one of the top ten most visited websites in the world, all at a fraction of the cost of popular for-profit websites.
The global reach of Wikimedia projects is made possible by the hard work of volunteers from across the globe. We provide grants, legal support, and other resources to help build vibrant volunteer communities. Additionally, we promote community engagement through outreach initiatives and advocate for the growth and protection of free knowledge.
Operational costs are essential for the smooth management and governance of the Wikimedia Foundation. These expenses help us recruit top talent and support staff around the world, empowering them to carry out the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Donor support is crucial to sustaining Wikipedia and our other free knowledge endeavors. Our team is committed to efficient and effective fundraising throughout the year, ensuring that every contribution helps advance our mission.
ASSETS
| Current assets | 2024 (USD) | 2023 (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 82,845,159 | 75,808,401 |
| Contributions receivable | 856,657 | — |
| Short-term investments | 116,074,763 | 132,216,667 |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 5,722,457 | 5,569,485 |
| Total current assets | 205,499,036 | 213,594,553 |
| Restricted cash | 1,428,542 | 1,396,717 |
| Long-term investments | 67,291,224 | 43,265,786 |
| Right of use asset — operating lease, net | — | 1,821,174 |
| Property and equipment, net Contributions receivable | 11,826,136 715,000 | 14,045,139 — |
| Total assets | 286,759,938 | 274,123,369 |
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
| Current liabilities | 2024 (USD) | 2023 (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Accounts payable | 4,009,582 | 2,783,904 |
| Accrued expenses | 7,959,558 | 6,922,259 |
| Lease liability | 417,756 | 1,640,735 |
| Donations payable to Wikimedia Endowment | 525,607 | 5,274,448 |
| Other liabilities | 2,292,045 | 2,124,939 |
| Total current liabilities | 15,204,548 | 18,746,285 |
| Lease liability | — | 405,748 |
| Total liabilities | 15,204,548 | 19,152,033 |
| Net assets | 2024 (USD) | 2023 (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Net assets without donor restrictions | 265,859,067 | 249,088,663 |
| Net assets with donor restrictions | 5,696,323 | 5,882,673 |
| Total net assets | 271,555,390 | 254,971,336 |
| Total liabilities and net assets | 286,759,938 | 274,123,369 |
NET ASSETS WITHOUT DONOR RESTRICTIONS
| Support and revenue | 2024 (USD) | 2023 (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Contributions of cash and other financial assets | 168,212,977 | 164,121,185 |
| Contributions of nonfinancial assets and services | 263,476 | 1,040,453 |
| Foreign currency gains (losses) | (300,907) | (94,868) |
| Other income, net | 5,629,773 | 3,824,240 |
| Investment income (loss), net | 5,096,842 | 3,002,929 |
| Release of net assets with donor restrictions | 6,481,350 | 4,732,654 |
| Total support and revenue | 185,383,511 | 176,626,593 |
| Expenses | 2024 (USD) | 2023 (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Salaries and benefits | 106,793,960 | 101,305,706 |
| Awards and grants | 26,820,080 | 24,433,682 |
| Internet hosting | 3,116,445 | 3,120,819 |
| In-kind service expenses | 263,476 | 1,040,453 |
| Donation processing expenses | 7,547,718 | 6,855,680 |
| Professional service expenses | 13,090,040 | 15,464,635 |
| Other operating expenses | 10,798,140 | 7,393,982 |
| Travel and conferences | 5,824,979 | 4,878,359 |
| Depreciation and amortization | 4,216,271 | 4,602,064 |
| Total expenses | 178,471,109 | 169,095,380 |
NET ASSETS WITH DONOR RESTRICTIONS
| Net assets with donor restrictions | 2024 (USD) | 2023 (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Contributions with donor restrictions | 6,295,000 | 9,273,736 |
| Net assets released from restrictions | (6,481,350) | (4,732,654) |
| Increase (decrease) in net assets with donor restrictions | (186,350) | 4,541,082 |
| Increase in net assets | 16,584,053 | 15,619,805 |
| 2024 (USD) | 2023 (USD) | |
|---|---|---|
| Net assets at beginning of year | 254,971,337 | 239,351,532 |
| Net assets at end of year | 271,555,390 | 254,971,337 |
The Wikimedia Foundation is a donor-funded, US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our tax ID number is 20-0049703. You can read our full audit report for 2023-24 here.
Leadership
Leadership during the 2023-2024 Financial Year
The Wikimedia Foundation’s leadership includes the executive team, which oversees staff at the Foundation, and the Board of Trustees, which serves as the Foundation’s ultimate corporate authority, guiding its work and mission.
Board of trustees
Nataliia Tymkiv
Chair, Board of Trustees
Nataliia grew up in Western Ukraine and has a Masters degree in Public Administration and a Specialist degree in Records Management and Information Activities. She has in-depth experience in executive leadership and financial management.
Since 2005, she has worked in various commercial enterprises as the head of the personnel department, executive director, chief accountant. From 2006 to 2007, she worked as the head of the educational and methodical department of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional center for retraining and advanced training of employees of public authorities, local governments, state enterprises, institutions and organizations. Since 2010, she has worked as a financial manager and later as a financial director of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM), a Ukrainian media policy and human rights nonprofit (formerly Media Law Institute). After 2018 she joined the Supervisory Board of CEDEM.
On the Wikimedia projects, Nataliia has been an active contributor since 2011, and shortly after became an administrator of Ukrainian Wikipedia.
In late 2012, Nataliia joined the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine as Treasurer. In this position, Nataliia built the financial model for the chapter from the ground up, including detailed financial reporting, accounting, and grant-making activities for the organization. Nataliia was later selected to serve as volunteer Executive Director of Wikimedia Ukraine in 2013 in addition to her position on the Board. In 2015, she returned to her position as Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Board.
Throughout her time on the Board, Nataliia helped oversee the growth and expansion of Wikimedia Ukraine in a number of ways, including improvements in transparency and governance-related processes for the chapter, the transition to Annual Plan Grants (APG) funding, growing Wikimedia Ukraine staff, and building and maintaining donor, partner, and community relationships.
Since 2016, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, and since 2019 she has been the Deputy Chairperson of the Board. Nataliia became the chair of the Board of Trustees in 2021.
Esra’a Al Shafei
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Esra’a Al Shafei is a human rights activist and the founder and director of Majal, a nonprofit which helps build communities that celebrate, protect, and promote diversity, and social justice.
A native of Bahrain, Esra’a works avidly to increase and protect free speech, promote expression for youth and underrepresented voices, and improve the lives of LGBTQ people in the Middle East and North Africa. She founded Majal in 2006 as Mideast Youth. The organization has built online platforms that creatively facilitate the struggle for social change in the Middle East and North Africa.
Esra’a received the Berkman Award for Internet Innovation from Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2008 for “outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society.” The World Economic Forum listed her as one of “15 Women Changing the World in 2015.”
She has won the “Most Courageous Media” Prize from Free Press Unlimited, and the Monaco Media Prize, which acknowledges innovative uses of media for the betterment of humanity.
Esra’a is a senior TED Fellow, an Echoing Green fellow, and a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. She received a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship in 2012 for her work on CrowdVoice.org. She lives in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov is an educator specializing in technology & learning, researcher, lecturer, and free knowledge advocate. Her research explores the intersection of Education, Technology, Innovation and Openness, with a special interest in bridging gender, language and social gaps in free knowledge projects.
As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Shani has led a variety of research projects: Exploring Generative AI (GenAI) adoption in Israeli academia via an online learning community; Examining organizational response to GenAI, focusing on the case study of the Wikimedia Movement, in partnership with the University of Cambridge; Researching the effect of Linked Open Data in Digital Humanities with the Center for AI & Data Science at Tel Aviv University; and exploring the new phenomenon of Critical Ignoring in the context of Digital Curation. She also engaged in designing a chatbot for 5th-8th graders, aimed at developing students’ Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Problem-Solving (PS) skills, funded by the Ministry of Education. Shani is also investigating GenAI’s effect on knowledge consumption and production, with the Digital Humanities Research Hub (DHRH), University of London, where she serves as a Visiting Research Fellowship. Her PhD, chosen for funding by the Azrieli Foundation’s Research Fellows Program, explored the Semantic Web as a learning platform, focusing on Wikidata, a Linked Open Data (LOD) database accessible to humans and machines.
As part of her work at Tel Aviv University, she served as an EdTech Innovation Strategist at the School of Medicine for a decade, and since 2013 has been a lecturer in various courses on campus, designing and leading academic courses focusing on Wikimedia projects, Users engagement in online environment, and most recently, on Generative AI. In 2013 she opened the first for-credit course in the world focusing on medical content on Wikimedia projects, with her students contributing over 13% of Hebrew Wikipedia’s medical content. In 2015 she opened a second academic course focusing on using Wikipedia as a platform to gain skills and have social impact, available to all undergraduates at TAU, and in 2018 she opened the first academic course in the world to feature Wikidata. Content created via her academic courses over the past decade has gained 75 million page views, demonstrating a positive social impact.
Shani is currently serving her second term as a Wikimedia Foundation Trustee, and has completed a 3 years term as the Board’s Vice Chair. During her first term, she founded and served as the Chair of the Community Affairs Committee – a Board committee designed to strengthen the relationship between the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia communities in working toward the joint mission and vision of the Wikimedia movement. She is also an active member of the Product & Technology Committee since its inception, and a member of the Governance Committee. Among other board roles, she served as Board Liaison to the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) and the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), and was the Chair of the ad-hoc Brand Committee. Prior to joining the Board of Trustees, Shani served as the Chairperson for both Wikimedia Medicine and Wikipedia & Education User Group. She is also a founding member of the Wikipedia & Libraries User Group, and a former board member of Wikimedia Israel. Besides contributing to Wikimedia projects, Shani also serves as Chief Editor and Chairperson for Project Ben-Yehuda, a free online library of Hebrew writings, and a Board member of the Public Knowledge Workshop (Hasadna).
Luis Bitencourt-Emilio
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Luis’ passion for technology began at an early age when his father placed him in a BASIC programming course as an 8-year-old in Brazil. That passion only grew with time, leading him to graduate with Honors in Computer Engineering and kick starting his career. Fast forwarding to today, Luis is now the father of the smartest, and just as tech savvy, 6-year-old boy and always on the lookout for the nearest dog park.
Today, Luis is based in São Paulo, Brazil, operating as the Chief Technology Officer at Loft, where he leads Engineering, Product, Data and Design at the proptech startup helping Latin Americans achieve the dream of home ownership at this top funded startup in the region. Luis is also actively involved as an Advisor and Investor supporting exciting LatAm companies.
Prior to Loft, Luis was based in Colombia as the Chief Product Officer at Rappi, a unicorn startup in Latin America. It was Rappi’s drive to improve the quality of life in LatAm, coupled with Luis’ deep interest in the tech scene in the region, that led him to make the move back from Silicon Valley.
Before returning to LatAm, Luis was the Founder, CTO and Board Director at Novi Money. Luis was also a senior leader in the engineering and executive teams at Reddit, Microsoft and Workpop. While at Reddit, Luis led the Reddit Knowledge Group, which owned all things related to data, machine learning, spam/abuse protection and search. He was deeply involved in Reddit’s growth stage, coordinating closely with Reddit’s communities in that evolution.
Luis is always looking for opportunities to travel; fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish he can often be found taking full advantage of his Brazilian, American and Italian passports to experience as many cultures and places as possible.
Tanya Capuano
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Tanya Pine Capuano most recently was the chief financial officer (CFO) of the digital marketing company G5 in Bend, Oregon.
Originally from San Jose, California, she has wide-ranging experience including strategy and financial planning and analysis in technology. In addition to her recent role at G5, she previously held leadership positions at Intuit, Hewlett-Packard and APM Management Consultants/CSC Healthcare. She has also supported numerous education initiatives throughout her career; including serving on the boards of Education Pioneers, Los Altos Educational Foundation, and “I Have a Dream” Foundation San Francisco, an organization whose San Francisco chapter she co-founded.
She is very involved with Stanford University alumni life, having earned a Bachelor’s in economics, a master’s in education, and a Master of Business Administration from the university. After graduating, she worked as the university’s Director of Alumni Relations for the Graduate School of Education and Development Director for the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education. She has also served on the board of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Alumni Association.
Tanya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two teenagers. They enjoy traveling as a family and experiencing the great outdoors.
Kathy Collins
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Kathy Collins has had a long career in the non-profit sector, working as a financial expert in both higher education and government. In September 2022, Kathy retired after 17 years as Vice President of Finance at Rice University, where her responsibilities included budget, controller’s office, internal audit, compliance and enterprise risk management, and institutional research. She was the Budget Director at Rice from 1995-2005. Kathy spent her early career with the Illinois Bureau of the Budget and with the federal government as a budget analyst with the Office of Management & Budget, Executive Office of The President and then as Budget Director at the US Department of Transportation. She received a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a Master’s Degree in City Planning from Harvard University.
Kathy recently completed two terms as a trustee at Mount Holyoke College (2013-2023), where she was most recently Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of the Finance Committee and member of the Audit, Governance and Development Committees and the DEI Task Force. She is currently on the Board of Directors of Girls on the Run, Greater Houston and a member of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service President’s Council. Kathy will soon be joining the Board of Regents of Texas Lutheran University.
Kathy volunteers in Houston with the Christian Community Service Center’s JobNet to help job-hunters with resumes and interview skills, and with United Way Greater Houston’s financial oversight group to review the financial health and governance of United Way partner agencies.
Kathy and her husband Bill Mintz live in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Victoria Doronina
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Dr. Victoria Doronina is a Technical Officer at the Faculty of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom.
Originally from Belarus, Victoria was awarded a Darwin Trust Fellowship, leading to a PhD in Molecular Biology (University of Edinburgh, UK). After graduating, Victoria worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in several Russell Group (UK Ivy league) universities specialising in protein translation. She is also an Associate Member of the Advance Higher Education Academy.
Victoria started contributing to Russian Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator. The second woman ever to be elected and the first to serve twice on the Russian Wikipedia Arbitration Committee, Victoria is a long-standing mediator in a few of the most debated topics and a Featured and Good articles moderator. In fact, Victoria was one of the initiators of the in-project mediation system.
In 2011 Victoria became a Wikimedia Community Fellow. She was involved in the initial stages of setting up the Russian Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia.RU. She also served on the Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee.
Victoria is an award-winning freelance science writer. She is a regular contributor in the biology professionals hub BiteSizeBio. Victoria’s writing has appeared in the Careers supplement of Science, The Scientist, Argumenty i Fakty (Belarus), and Moskovskij Komsosmolets (Russia). She is active in promoting the Wikimedia movement on social media and as a spokesperson for Russian and English media.
Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak is a full professor of management and organization studies, the head of MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) department at Kozminski University, and associate faculty at Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Originally from Warsaw, Poland, Dariusz studies open collaboration communities, the phenomenon of organized sharing (including piracy), and anti-scientific movements. He has conducted research projects on related issues at Cornell University, Harvard University, Berkeley, and MIT. In 2014, he published Common knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia at Stanford University Press, and in 2019, he published Collaborative Society with MIT Press (co-authored by A. Przegalinska). He has been the recipient of many academic merit awards, including a Fulbright Foundation scholarship (2004), Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2015) and Polish Academy of Sciences Chair award for outstanding scholarship (2016).
Dariusz currently serves on the board of Copernicus Science Center, as well as vice-chair of the board of Escola, a public Polish company focused on mobile app development. Previously, he was a chairperson of the Collegium Invisibile academic society (OSI initiative). He was a scientific advisor to the Ministry of Science in Poland from 2015-2016, and currently serves on the steering committee of Internet Governance Forum in Poland.
He developed and sold three startups, including ling.pl, the largest Polish online dictionary, and is a co-founder of Insta.Ling, a free platform for vocabulary acquisition.
Dariusz has held a variety of different roles on Wikipedia, including administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, steward, and ombudsman. He served as the chair of Wikimedia’s Funds Dissemination Committee for three terms.
Lorenzo Losa
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Lorenzo Losa has been deeply involved in Wikimedia projects since he began editing Wikipedia in 2004. Since then, he has made over 1 million edits across different projects and filled a number of volunteer roles including Italian Wikipedia administrator, bot operator, and OTRS volunteer.
Lorenzo joined the board of Wikimedia Italia in 2011 and served as its president from 2016–2020. He served on the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) as a community-elected member (2015-2019). He joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in December 2021.
Originally from Milan, Italy, Lorenzo earned a Masters degree in Mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore. He currently leads the development of an electronic brokerage platform.
Lorenzo is fluent in Italian, Spanish, and English.
Raju Narisetti
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Raju Narisetti’s current role as Publisher of McKinsey Global Publishing at McKinsey & Company is the latest in a 32-year global career in media and publishing, during which he has created, reimagined, and managed major media organizations in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as being on the frontlines of digital transformation challenges and new ventures in publishing.
Raju worked as a journalist at The Wall Street Journal where, over 14 years, he went from a Reporting Intern to be the Editor of WSJ Europe, and Managing Editor, Digital, of the global WSJ, and part of a team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for 9/11 coverage. At The Washington Post, Raju was the Managing Editor who helped kick-start the newspaper’s print/digital transformation. In both WSJ and Washington Post, Raju was the youngest and first Person of Color on their mastheads. Raju is also the founder of Mint (livemint.com), India’s English language business news publication.
After his journalist stint, as a media business executive, he was Senior Vice President of Strategy for News Corp, and then CEO of the Gizmodo Media Group, which then encompassed a group of digital journalism sites that included Gizmodo, Jezebel, DeadSpin, Lifehacker, and The Root.
Prior to joining McKinsey in 2020, he was a journalism educator, leading the Knight Bagehot Fellowships in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University, where he also was a Professor of Professional Practice at the School of Journalism.
An alumni member of the WEF’s Young Global Leader cohort (YGL Class of 2007), he is currently on the board of Friends of the Forum Foundations USA Inc., which provides oversight for funding support for YGL and Global Shapers initiatives at the World Economic Forum.
He lives in New York City but is often found on Twitter @Raju.
Dr. Mike Peel
Trustee, Board of Trustees
A volunteer editor since 2005, Mike Peel has been involved in many facets of the Wikimedia movement. He is an administrator on Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and the English Wikipedia. He co-founded Wikimedia UK and served as a trustee there for five years. He is also a member of Wiki Movimento Brasil and Wikimedia España. He served on the Wikimedia Foundation’s Funds Dissemination Committee for four years, and for the last year he was a member of a Northern and Western Europe Regional Grants Committee.
Mike earned his PhD in radio astronomy at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in England before relocating to the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil in 2016 to work on a new telescope, BINGO. His work then landed him at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in the Canary Islands, where he took part in the GroundBIRD and QUIJOTE experiments. Throughout his global professional experience, Mike has regularly worked with scientists and students from all backgrounds. He has supported multilingual knowledge creation through Wikidata, where he developed the multilingual Wikidata infobox that is now used in over four million Commons categories. Mike hopes to bring these perspectives to his work as a trustee to help Wikimedia grow in regions where it has historically been undersupported.
Mike’s first committee assignments will be as a member of the Community Affairs Committee and an alternate to the Audit and Product & Technology Committees.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston). She has a degree in Business Management, a Master’s degree in Business Administration, and a graduate certificate in Executive Leadership. In 2016, she retired from a career as an administrator in the healthcare and government sectors, where she specialized in project management, contract management, and talent acquisition. For several years, she also served as an Adjunct Professor.
Rosie started editing English Wikipedia in 2007 and became an administrator in 2009. She has created more than 5,000 new articles, including more than 1,500 biographies about notable women. In 2014, she founded WikiProject Women Writers. In 2015, she co-founded Wiki Women in Red, an international, multi-language initiative focused on increasing the quantity and quality of Wikipedia articles related to women. A year later, Women in Red was shortlisted for the ITU/UN Women GEM-TECH Award for its efforts to apply technology for women’s empowerment and digital inclusion. Rosie was honored as co-Wikimedian of the Year 2016 for her work related to combating harassment on Wikipedia and increasing its coverage of notable women. In 2018, she was knighted in Serbia, her ancestors’ homeland, in part because of her Wikipedia work. A Hoosier by birth, she lives in California.
Jimmy Wales
Trustee, Board of Trustees
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project.
Jimmy was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago. In the mid-1990s he started Bomis, a search portal focusing on aspects of pop culture, one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the Open Directory Project.
In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded Nupedia, by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.
In 2004, Jimmy founded Wikia. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses.
Executive team
Maryana Iskander
Chief Executive Officer, Executive Team
Maryana Iskander is the Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Prior to Wikimedia, Maryana spent ten years as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a non-profit social enterprise focused on building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment. Under her leadership, Harambee received the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2019 for its model to support millions of South African youth with access to learning and earning opportunities.
Maryana has dedicated her career to breaking down systemic barriers of access to opportunity and education. She has a proven track record for scaling complex organizations through collaborative solution-building and community empowerment. She spent more than half a decade as the Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was also the Advisor to the President of Rice University, an associate at global consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Maryana holds a BA magna cum laude from Rice University, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she received a Distinguished Alumna Award. Maryana is also a Truman Scholar, a Henry Crown Fellow, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Maryana also serves as a Trustee of the Yale University Corporation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collective.
Anusha Alikhan
Chief Communications Officer, Executive Team
Anusha Alikhan is the Chief Communications Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Anusha has more than 15 years of communications experience spanning the areas of human rights, technology, knowledge access, international development, media innovation, gender equity, and healthcare. She joined the Foundation in 2019 as the Senior Director of Communications.
In her role leading the Communications department, she leads strategy to advance understanding of Wikimedia projects, and the Foundation’s values and social good mission, across external, internal and community audiences.
Previously, she was communications director for Knight Foundation, where she worked across the foundation’s focus areas – journalism, communities, arts, learning – as a thought partner and strategy developer. Before that, she served as a communications officer with the United Nations in New York contributing to the advancement of global peacekeeping initiatives, as well as a communications consultant with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). She was also marketing manager for the National Parkinson Foundation, where she developed brand awareness campaigns and promotional strategies that helped increase community impact and program results. She has worked as a freelance journalist and editor.
Before embarking on a professional career in communications, Anusha practiced employment and human rights law in her hometown of Toronto, Canada. She is now based in Miami.
Anusha serves on the board of The Communications Network and Awesome Foundation Miami and is a member of the Communications Network working group for diversity, equity and inclusion. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University, a law degree from Queen’s University in Ontario and an honors bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto.
Courtney Bass Sherizen
Chief Talent and Culture Officer, Executive Team
Courtney Bass Sherizen is the Chief People Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Prior to joining Wikimedia, Courtney was a Director of People Operations at Google. While at Google, Courtney created the Global HR Crisis Management Office and was a Lead People Partner, coaching and advising over 100 senior leaders across the organization.
Courtney began her career as an 11th grade English teacher with Teach For America in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following that, she founded a travel consultancy in Beijing and, in her spare time, had acting roles in Chinese soap operas. Courtney has also supported leaders in both for-profit and not-for-profit sectors as a management consultant for Monitor Deloitte. Her work centered in developing strategies for a major US health insurer, a global consumer goods organization, a defense arm of the US government and a national non-profit.
Courtney holds a B.A. in History from Harvard College. In college, she received a certificate in African Studies and was selected as her graduating Class Day speaker. She also has a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Certificate in Organizational Leadership and Coaching from Northwestern University. Courtney sits on the Board of Directors of the Donors of Color Network and Beta Financial Services.
Selena Deckelmann
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Executive Team
Selena Deckelmann is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation. She brings more than 20 years of experience in open source technology, product management and engineering leadership.
Previously, Selena was Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she led a team of 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s greatest achievements including infrastructure projects like Quantum Flow and Project Fission, key features like Enhanced Tracking Protection, and services such as Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko Security Engineering.
Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and as Consulting Director of Development for The Ada Initiative, an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She is a Python Foundation Fellow and former Major Contributor to PostgreSQL, one of the largest free and open source databases in the world. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Oregon Sunshine Committee, an initiative focused on expanding public access to government information in her home state of Oregon.
Selena graduated from the University of Oregon. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.
Stephen LaPorte
General Counsel, Executive Team
Stephen LaPorte is the General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and the Wikimedia free knowledge projects.
Stephen began at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2012, and he has held several leadership roles in the Foundation’s Legal department, most recently as the Deputy General Counsel covering a range of legal issues including copyright, trademarks, governance, and public policy. In his past roles he has led several high profile initiatives to protect access to knowledge and defend the rights of the hundreds of thousands of volunteer contributors that edit Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Stephen is also an active contributor to Wikipedia, Wikisource, and free software projects. His open source projects include interactive, real time, visualizations of collaboration on Wikipedia, including co-creating Listen to Wikipedia and a weekly newsletter of the most edited articles on Wikipedia.
Stephen received his BA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Lisa Seitz-Gruwell
Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Team
Lisa Seitz Gruwell is the Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. Lisa’s role includes leading the Wikimedia Foundation’s fundraising activities across a broad and varied spectrum that includes both individual donors and philanthropic institutions, as well as a focus on community growth and partnerships. In 2016, she helped launch the Wikimedia Endowment and serves as its President.
Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation in 2011, Lisa previously worked as Chief Operating Officer at the Rappaport Family Foundation and Skyline Public Works, a fund that blends venture capital with philanthropy; as the District Director and Press Secretary for the California Assembly Majority Leader and in several roles for then-mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom. She also has previously worked as a political consultant and campaign manager for Democratic candidates in California, Montana, Michigan, Connecticut and Oregon. Lisa was also appointed to serve as a Civil Service Commissioner for the City and County of San Francisco. In addition, Lisa has served as a board member of several organizations including the Montana Environmental Information Center and the Progressive States Network, and the San Francisco Rock Project.
Lisa earned a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Political Science from Carroll College. She studied as a Coro Fellow before attending the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation in the Executive Program for Philanthropy Leaders.
Jaime Villagomez
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Team
Jaime Villagomez is the Chief Financial Officer for the Wikimedia Foundation overseeing strategic planning and budgeting and financial and administrative operations for the organization since February 2016.
Originally from San Francisco, Jaime provides a deep, international business experience from working around the world, including in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Wikimedia, he was the Chief Financial Officer at San Francisco Bay Area-based software company anyCOMM Corporation and the Karum Group; as Vice-president, Finance, at Advent Software and QRS Corporation; and as Vice-president and Controller at Northpoint Communications.
Jaime obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School.
Donors
Celebrating and thanking the Wikimedia Foundation’s generous donors
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With deep gratitude, we extend our sincere thanks to all our donors around the world. Your unwavering support and generosity drive our mission and create a meaningful impact on a global scale.
We would like to offer special recognition to those who made significant contributions during the fiscal year 2023-2024. Your exceptional generosity has been vital in sustaining our projects and initiatives.
To every benefactor, you are an essential part of our community, and your dedication to advancing the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission is truly inspiring. Together, we are building a world where knowledge knows no bounds, allowing people from all backgrounds to benefit from the wealth of information provided by Wikimedia projects. Your support empowers us to continue our journey toward a more knowledgeable, connected, and equitable society.
Below is a list celebrating those who gave $1,000 or more during the past year:
- ABLC
- Acton Family Giving
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Antoine Bello
- Apple Inc. Matching Gifts Program
- Brave browser users
- Charina Endowment Fund
- Crankstart Foundation
- Foundation for a Better World
- David and Amy Fulton Foundation
- Robert Geltz and Elizabeth Hands Geltz
- Google.org
- Google Matching Gifts Program
- Kaphan Foundation
- Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
- Moneta Asset Management
- Montgomery Family Fund
- N1234
- Katharine C. Pierce
- Evelyn and Kurt Riedel
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- Simons Foundation
- Stichting Sub3
- Bonnie and Daniel Tisch
- Tony Wheeler
- WoodNext Foundation
- Anonymous donors
- Brad Abernethy
- Adobe
- Argosy Foundation
- Andy & Elliot Berndt
- Bloomberg LP
- The Boeing Company Gift Match
- Cisco
- Cottonwood Spring
- In honor of Andrik Essey
- Heartsprung Fund WA
- Mark Heising and Elizabeth Simons Fund
- Don & Paula Heye
- The Hinman Charitable Foundation
- Tim Huang
- Alan and Christine Huber
- David Humm
- Hypertext Foundation
- Intel Corporation Matching Gifts Program
- Amy and Josh Jernigan
- Asa Johnson
- Jay and Mary Jones
- Scott Eric Jordan
- JVR – Murray and Jan Ritland Fund
- Sung-Hou and Rosalind Kim
- Linda Kintzel
- Mr. Darrin Massena
- Mark Quinn-Newall
- Ranae DeSantis Foundation
- The Revada Foundation of the Logan Family
- Christopher Seiwald
- The Shor Family Foundation
- Silverleaf Foundation
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp
- Texas Instruments Foundation
- Mr. Paul E. von Kuster III
- In memory of Mary Helen Angelbeck Whitecotton
- Anonymous Donors
- Abbott Laboratories – EGC
- A & J Saks Foundation
- The Alwan Family Fund
- Amtlock Family
- Apex Foundation
- Amaltheia Foundation
- Autodesk
- Dr. Florian Bacheli
- Prabhu & Rina Balasubramanian
- The Behemoth
- Ms. Heather Bendler
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gift Program
- Bill and Sue Birchard
- BlackRock Matching Gifts Program
- Blanchard Family
- Paul Nicholas Boylan
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Lyons Brewer
- The Brickyard C Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation
- J.P. Brinker-Uys Foundation
- Jeffrey and Marguerite Browne
- Calm Seas ADHD Coaching
- John Canfield
- The Charles Spear Charitable Foundation
- Charles and Laura Kahn Family Fund
- Bonnie Howard and Charles Charrow
- Chevron Matching Employee Funds
- Clementine Fund
- Comcast
- Liam Connell
- Andrew Cook
- CouponFollow
- Covington Family Fund
- David Cutler
- Dell
- Peter and Linda B. Dooley
- Earth Wise Fund
- eBay Foundation
- Irene Esteves
- Alex & Patricia Farman-Farmaian
- Fast Tempos & Odd Time Signatures
- Joel David Friedly
- Frumkin Falco Family Foundation
- Carol Fryer and Bernard Moret
- Laurie and Thomas Fusco
- Brian & Rebecca Geisel, Geisel Family Foundation
- Genentech Employee Giving Program
- Gwendolyn Gilbert-Snyder
- Tyson & Elizabeth Gill
- Spencer Glendon and Lisa Tung
- The Grainger Foundation
- Grist Labs Inc.
- The David and Patricia Giuliani Family Foundation
- Guttman Family Donor Advised Fund gGmbH
- Carolyn and Don Hansen
- F. Dok Harris
- Helen Ingham Foundation
- Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
- Hewlett Packard Company Foundation
- Steve Hindman Family Charitable Trust
- Nick Hodulik & Jonathan Taylor
- Howard Gilman Foundation
- HPI
- Robert Ibbotson
- IBM
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America
- Mark Jacobson and Ilona Frieden
- Douglas Jaffe
- Wisdom for the World Foundation / Christian Jagodzins
- The Jersin Foundation
- Johnson & Johnson
- JP Morgan Chase Foundation
- Paul Haahr and Susan Karp
- The Keough Family Foundation
- KLA Foundation
- Eric Klusman
- Jennifer Secoy Krach Fund
- Laxmi Family Charitable Fund
- Mary Soon Lee and Andrew Moore
- Leon Levy Foundation
- Li Lu Humanitarian Foundation
- LinkedIn Matching Gifts Program
- Leo Liu, MD
- Rayson Lorrey
- Philip Loughlin
- Emily Maier
- In memory of my father Dr. Bradley W. Maring
- Greg and Elizabeth Stanton Marra
- William Mayo-Smith & Leslie Vensel
- McKinsey & Company Matching Gift Program
- The McLean Family-Lincoln Nebraska
- Ryan Mills
- Milner Family Foundation
- Colin and Roberta Moore
- Morino Institute
- Sheila Mossman
- David Mumford
- Mycelium Foundation
- Ruediger Naumann-Etienne
- Nike Employee Matching Gift Program
- Michael Noakes
- Nvidia Employee Giving Program
- The Old Stones Foundation
- One Point Of Light Foundation
- John and Rita Ousterhout
- P&C Collins Fund
- Deepak Parayanken
- Paryani Family
- Pearlstein-Hollingsworth Family Fund
- Drew and Lola Perkins
- Pfizer
- Pinion Street Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
- Pipkin Family
- PlayStation Cares
- Laura Murphy and Bill Psillas
- Raytheon Technologies
- Joe Rice
- Rick & Susan Goings Foundation
- Robert G. Andrews
- Ruth and Peter Metz Family Foundation
- M. Duane Rutledge
- Barbara Ryan
- S&P Global Community Matching Gifts Program
- Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts
- Roy Schneiderman
- Dominic Scriven OBE
- Mick & Alison Seaman
- Tushar Shah and Sara Zion
- The Shanbrom Family Foundation
- Bradford Sherburne
- Shell Oil Company
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust
- Jeffrey Snover
- James T. Stephens
- Steve Tai & Kin-Ching Wu
- Kristof and Katherine Toth
- Dwight Wilkins
- UHG
- Valhalla Foundation
- Jennifer Van Dalsen and Tor Braham
- David Vickrey
- Visa Matching Gifts Program
- VMWare Foundation Matching Gifts Program
- Bret Walker AO SC
- Walt Disney Company Foundation
- Robert Watkins
- Clare and Richard Weinberg
- Adam and Abigail Winkel
- Yen Family
- Greg and Margo Young
- Kenneth and Anna Zankel
- Anonymous donors
- 10Four Youth Center
- In loving memory of Syed Anwar Abbas
- Richard Clark Abbott
- Abbvie
- AbbVie Foundation
- Rita Adams
- ADP
- John and Monica Adractas
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- The Harmonious Bilingualism Network
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- I gladly support Wikipedia
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- In honor of Dr. James L. Julian, who cherished knowledge above all else
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- Leo Model Foundation
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- Don Lewis
- Dylan Liebgott
- Liz Liebman
- Lilly US Matching Gifts Program
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- Karen and Victor Linck
- The Liner Notes Project
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- Barry & Marie Lipman
- In memory of my friend Thomas D. Lombaer and separate listing Spencer Brown
- Lone Pine Foundation Inc
- John Longres
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- Linda Look
- In memory of Felix Lopez
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Richard Mazess
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Merck
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Micron Technology, Inc.
Matthew Midboe
Middle Road Foundation
In honor of the late Steve Mihalik
Uncle Mike
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- Margaret Renik
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- Julia Rickert
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- Green Rives
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- Rockwell Spark
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- Sievert Rohwer
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- Jerzy Rub
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- Elizabeth Russell
- Have a Money, Share a Money
- Amy Ryan
- Kevin Ryan
- The S. Garbus Fund
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- Samsung
- Sanofi
- SAP Matching Gift Program
- Thomas Sargent
- Elaine Scarry
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- David Schloss
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- Robert Schroeder
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- Select Equity Group Foundation
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- ServiceNow
- Charles Severance
- Jerome Seydoux
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- Mr. Chuck Smith-Dewey
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- Kevin Sofield
- Aaron and Jamie Solak
- Jon and Melissa Solera
- Steven Solomon
- Some old physicist
- Vanita Sood
- Andrew Sopko
- Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Matching Gifts Program
- Sowmya Sitaram
- Joel Spiegel
- Splunk
- Sports Reference LLC
- Spotify
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- Mike Stadtfeld
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- Christie Steier
- Steven Ayers Investment Management
- Mike Stock
- Revin Stoker
- Stoldal Family
- Stryker
- Colin Stryker
- Summers and Yee Family
- Andrew Sutherland
- Paul Sween
- Synchrony Financial
- Synopsys Employee Engagement Fund
- Take Two Software
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc Employee Giving Program
- Texas Instruments
- T-Mobile USA, Inc
- T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving
- In memory of Norman E. Tanis, Dean of the University Library at Cal State University, Northridge
- Sinan Tara
- Dale Taylor
- Alan Taylor and Hans Reiser
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- Jeff Taylor
- Ahmad Tea
- The Team of Flightkeys
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- TOYOTA InfoTechnology Center
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- The Flat Network Society
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- Two Sigma Investments LLC
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- In Memory of Mary and Theodore Urzy
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- David Wasserman
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- Glenn Westley and Jeanne Holzgrefe
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- In honor of the Wikipedia Staff
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- Bill & Cynthia Wilby
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- In memory of Sam Wolpert
- Dr Raymond J Wootton
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- Workday, Inc.
- Martin Woy
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- Cy Wyss
- Lee Xu
- Yahoo
- Lisa Yang
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- 俞宗維
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- Will Provost & Stacey Zelbow
- The Zerhouni Foundation
- Liang Zhang
- Zhuqing Zhang
- Mary Menell Zients
- Jim Stepp and Peter Zimmer Fund
- George Zimmerman
- Anonymous Donors
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