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Wikimedia movement

The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia.[1][2] This community directly builds and administers these projects[3] with the commitment of achieving this using open standards and software.[4]

Type

Informal organization of individual contributors, chapters, user groups and thematic organizations

Free, open-content, wiki-based Internet projects

Worldwide

First created around and by Wikipedia's community of volunteer editors (Wikipedians), it has since expanded to other projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata and volunteer software engineers and developers contributing to the software used to power Wikimedia, MediaWiki.

a community project for offline access to the content projects

Kiwix

the open source platform for the projects

MediaWiki

a community space for hosting software projects that need access to the cluster

Toolforge

community handling email inquiries

Volunteer Response Team

a space for shared cloud computing, built on OpenStack

Wikimedia cloud services

a community of developers with a wiki and mailing list

Wikitech

Organizations[edit]

Project communities[edit]

The Wikimedia community includes a number of communities devoted to single wikis.

Wikimedia home page

description at Meta-Wiki

Wikimedia movement structure