What does Wikimedia Deutschland do?

Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikimedia Germany) is a non-profit association with around 90,000 members and 150 employees. San Francisco and Berlin are the two major locations of the international Wikimedia Movement. Among other things, Wikimedia supports the free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, which is one of the fifth most popular websites in Germany and the only non-commercial website in the top 20 internationally.

Why are we awarding a grant to Wikimedia Deutschland?

Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world. Through various projects, chapters and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

What is our mutual goal?

Wikimedia Deutschland now aims to have a European legal structure “Wikimedia Europe” as an organization of organizations.  Wikimedia Europe is to complement and strengthen the work of national chapters. Ongoing cooperation on EU policy has proved that pooling resources from chapters provides our community with benefits that none of the chapters could achieve by themselves. This will ensure sustainability, resilience, and growth for the whole Movement. We believe that in the Europe we live in today, the European perspective should be taken by default. To only operate on a national level is subject to justification and not the other way around.