Wikimedia

Wikimedia Foundation is a private tax-exempt corporation (IRS 501) in the US founded and mainly run by Jim Wales aka Jimbo.

It has no independent board, no legal charity status in any country, and seems to spend money it raises on providing hardware for mediawiki sites such as Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia and Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary and Thesaurus

Some claims have been made that part of the funds it raises is used to support development of the mediawiki software, which is what this R&D wiki is running on and for which we are in great gratitude for Consumerium would never have come this far without it. According to Mediawiki developers these claims are not true.

142.177.X.X says it provides mostly bad examples for the Consumerium Governance Organization, which would do well to avoid all the pitfalls it is falling into. See 142.X.X.X/Tim_Starling for a starting list of these, and references to potential solutions that 'Wikipedians' ignore and censor, many of which are longstanding sore points at Meta-Wikipedia, e.g. m:regime change.