Mission The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
Description The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and many other free knowledge projects. All of our work is guided by our mission to share the sum of all knowledge with every person in the world. In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure & an organizational framework for the support & development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. Our Guiding Principles: -We support projects that are international in scope, and we aspire to reflect that internationalism in our own work -We believe that everyone in the world has a right to free access to information -Part of our job is to ensure that the freedom and independence of the projects is never compromised
Wikimedia Foundation has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 170 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wikimedia Foundation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).
Overall, 68% of employees would recommend working at Wikimedia Foundation to a friend. This is based on 178 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
63% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Wikimedia Foundation as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Wikimedia Foundation.