Wikipedia

Who owns the website?

Created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger

Owner: Wikimedia Foundation (Non Profit)

Do they also own any traditional media business?

Wikibooks: a collection of collaboratively written free textbooks and annotated texts.

Wikimedia Commons: a site devoted to free-knowledge multimedia.

 Wikinews: for citizen journalism.

What other internet sites do they own?

It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki.

What is revenue?

Wikimedia- US$10,632,254 (July – December 2009)

What is its overall worth?

The money earned by Wikimedia (revenue) is used to improve its sites and other media business. Therefore it wouldn’t really have an overall worth.

Five key facts about the institution-Wikimedia

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization.

It operates several online collaborative wiki projects.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based.

The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

The functions of the Wikimedia Foundation were, for the first few years, executed almost entirely by volunteers.