Introduction

The Wikimedia Foundation is am American non-profit organisation founded in 2013. Wikimedia runs several projects to enable access to knowledge and leverage crowdsourcing. The best known and largest of these projects is Wikipedia which is an online crowdsourced encyclopedia.

Wikimedia foundation ecosystem

Other noteable projects:

Wikicommons
- A shared media repository
Wikisource
- An archive of primary source documents with transcription and translation
Wikitionary
- A free multi-lingual dictionary
Wikidata
- A large-scale linked data project.