Press Contacts – Wikimedia Foundation

For media inquiries about Wikipedia, Wikimedia, or the Wikimedia Foundation, please email us at [email protected] or call us +1 415-839-6885.

For media relations requests only. For all general, public inquiries, or other concerns, please use our contact page.

Public speaking requests

If you have a public speaking request for a Wikimedia spokesperson, please email [email protected] with details of the event and request.

Wikimedia facts and figures

Wikipedia was started in 2001.
Today, Wikipedia exists in nearly 300 languages across more than 58 million articles.
Projects and programs made possible by the Wikimedia Foundation reach more than 1.8 billion devices a month
More than 300,000 editors contribute to Wikipedia every month.
Wikipedia is read more than 15 billion times every month. That means people reading Wikipedia about 6,000 times every second.
Wikimedia sites are accessed by more than 1.8 billion unique devices every month.
We don’t track unique visitors to Wikimedia sites because of our strong commitment to privacy.
We do have information about the number of unique devices that access Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites.

Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia images

Wikimedia Foundation logo (horizontal)

Wikimedia Foundation logo (vertical)

Maryana Iskander – Chief Executive Officer, Wikimedia Foundation

Jimmy Wales – Founder, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia puzzle globe

Wikipedia wordmark

Regional Wikimedia press contacts

Wikimedia is a global free knowledge movement with contributors around the world. If you would like to speak with a Wikimedia spokesperson in a specific region or language, please find more contact information below.

The Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department can also assist with connecting to local Wikimedia spokespeople in many languages and geographic regions. For assistance, please email [email protected].

Please note, these organizations do not speak in an official capacity on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Wikipedia Recognized as a Digital Public Good

Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation

The UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance has added Wikipedia to its registry, affirming the important role its volunteer editors play in making the internet better for everyone.