Wikimedia movement

Wikimedia movement
	Wikimania 2024 group photograph
Type	Informal organization of individual contributors, chapters, user groups and thematic organizations
Focus	Free, open-content, wiki-based Internet projects
Area served	Worldwide
Services	Authoring and editing Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wiktionary; Developing MediaWiki software;
Website	wikimedia.org

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]

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.

^ Koerner, Jackie; Reagle, Joseph (October 13, 2020). Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. MIT Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780262360609. The Wikimedia movement has always been a movement of writers (and curators) rather than readers.
^ Maher, Katherine (2020-10-15), "22 Capstone: Making History, Building the Future Together", ::Wikipedia @ 20, PubPub, ISBN 978-0-262-53817-6, archived from the original on 2021-10-16, retrieved 2021-09-06
^ Kosseff, Jeff (April 15, 2019). The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501735790. Archived from the original on April 29, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
^ Proffitt, Merrilee (April 2, 2018). Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge. American Library Association. p. 13. ISBN 9780838916322.

[1] Koerner, Jackie; Reagle, Joseph (October 13, 2020). Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. MIT Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780262360609. The Wikimedia movement has always been a movement of writers (and curators) rather than readers.

[2] Maher, Katherine (2020-10-15), "22 Capstone: Making History, Building the Future Together", ::Wikipedia @ 20, PubPub, ISBN 978-0-262-53817-6, archived from the original on 2021-10-16, retrieved 2021-09-06

[3] Kosseff, Jeff (April 15, 2019). The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501735790. Archived from the original on April 29, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.

[4] Proffitt, Merrilee (April 2, 2018). Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge. American Library Association. p. 13. ISBN 9780838916322.

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