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The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, activities and values which revolve around Wikimedia sites and projects:

a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing etc.);
a collection of activities (conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc.);
a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters etc.), as well as some free electrons (individuals without chapters) and similar-minded organizations.

Shared values

a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing etc.);

Shared projects

a collection of activities around Wikimedia Projects:
- Wikipedia, in more than 277 language versions,
- other content related wikis, such as Wikisource or Wikibooks,
- 'backstage' wikis or organisational wikis, such as this Meta-Wiki,
- conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc. (offline activities);

Wikimedia organizations

a collection of organizations, as well as some free electrons (individuals acting outside any group) and similar-minded organizations:

The Wikimedia Foundation

The owner of the trademark Wikimedia is the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Linked to the WMF are:

The Wikimedia Foundation's own organs and committees:
board
staff
advisory board
Independent Committees installed by the WMF board
- Affiliations committee
- Language committee

Wikimedia stakeholders

More generally speaking, Wikimedia stakeholders are also part of the Wikimedia movement (readers of Wikimedia content, donors, schools, GLAM , similar-minded institutions, and companies co-operating with the Wikimedia Foundation or other Wikimedia organizations).

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-The '''Wikimedia movement''' consists of the people and groups of people who share common goals and activities with regard to creating and supporting [[:en:free knowledge|free knowledge]] educative content: it's a collection of shared values, Wikimedia projects, organizations, and stakeholders.
+The '''Wikimedia movement''' is the totality of people, activities and values which revolve around Wikimedia sites and projects:
+* a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing etc.);
+* a collection of activities (conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc.);
+* a collection of organizations ([[wmf:|Wikimedia Foundation]], [[m:Wikimedia chapters|Wikimedia chapters]] etc.), as well as some free electrons (individuals without chapters) and similar-minded organizations.
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+More generally speaking, [[<tvar|strat-stakeholders>:strategy:Wikimedia stakeholders</>|Wikimedia stakeholders]] are also part of the Wikimedia movement (readers of Wikimedia content, donors, schools, {{ll|GLAM}}, similar-minded institutions, and companies co-operating with the Wikimedia Foundation or other Wikimedia organizations).
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