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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: The Planetary Society, Wikimedia Foundation, E-democracy, Free Software Foundation, CouchSurfing, Entertainment Consumers Association, TechSoup, Comunes Collective, Daniel Ben-Horin, Capacity building, Andy Carvin, ZaMirNET, NetDay, Kabissa, Prometheus Radio Project, Computer technology for developing areas, Ungana-Afrika, Open Media Foundation, The Rosetta Foundation, MySociety, Open Society Institute, Non-profit technology, ParoleWatch, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Red Wing Software, Cougar Mountain Software, Ma3bar, Integration Consortium, Community technology center, FreedomBox, OpenDocument Foundation, Women'sNet, John G. McNutt, NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, Arid Lands Information Network, World Information Society Day, Open Knowledge Network, Wau Holland Foundation, ITeM, PledgeBank, NPower, Wamani, The Malian Foundation, Circuit rider, Voice bangladesh, Lectorium, Katrina PeopleFinder Project, League for Programming Freedom, Benton Foundation, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, GISCorps, Software Patent Institute, WomensHub, The Institute for End User Computing, E@I, Open Forum of Cambodia, NTAP, DC Web Women, TechFoundation, NonProfit Open Source Initiative. Excerpt: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide. The creation of the foundation was offici...