{"id":15983,"date":"2016-09-29T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2020-12-24T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T18:16:21","slug":"wikimedia-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/wikimedia-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit that\u2019s dedicated to empowering and engaging people around the world to share in free knowledge. The organization supports and hosts Wikipedia and its sister Wikimedia sites, with the vision of allowing everyone, everywhere to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Three projects have helped expand the scale of available Wikimedia content worldwide.\"CaitlinVirtue2013October30\"<\/p>\n

Raising support for these projects is Caitlin Virtue, who seamlessly stepped into her role as Director of Development at the Wikimedia Foundation nearly three years ago. In addition to her last name, the career path is basically in her veins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in the not-for-profit world,\u201d begins Virtue. \u201cMy dad worked at the YMCA and my mom at the Red Cross. Working with a nonprofit was a really natural step for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singular vision of the Foundation resonated with Virtue: \u201cOur mission, the vision, is that every human being should be able to share in the sum of all human knowledge. We want everyone everywhere, regardless of what language you speak, to have access to the sum of all human knowledge. That\u2019s the direction that we\u2019re going and every day we get closer to achieving it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a brief pause, she laughs, \u201cWe will never get there, of course. Knowledge is being created all of the time. But that\u2019s the value. We want information to be accessible to everyone all around the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

To compile the sum of all human knowledge, the Wikimedia Foundation supports 11 projects including:<\/p>\n