Wikimedia movement

Wikimedia movement

Wikimania 2019 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 a worldwide community of people who improve projects like Wikipedia.^[1][2] They work together to create and manage these projects.^[3] They use open standards and software to create and manage them.^[4]

It was originally made by volunteers who edit Wikipedia. The movement has grown to include other projects such as Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. It also includes volunteers who are software engineers and developers. They help make the software called MediaWiki better. MediaWiki is what is used to run the Wikimedia projects.

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, retrieved 2021-09-06
3. ↑ Kosseff, Jeff (April 15, 2019). The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501735790.
4. ↑ Proffitt, Merrilee (April 2, 2018). Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge. American Library Association. p. 13. ISBN 9780838916322.