Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. It is 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, Meta-Wiki and owns the now-defunct Nupedia. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks in the top-ten most-visited websites worldwide. The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003, by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis of his company Bomis.

The Wikimedia Foundation falls under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code as a public charity. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is C60 (Adult, Continuing Education).The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967) is the current executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, and previous director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.

Gardner grew up in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of an Anglican minister and school principal. She received a degree in journalism from Ryerson University. She began her career on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio in 1990 on the program As It Happens, and worked for more than a decade as a producer, reporter and documentary-maker for CBC Radio current-affairs and for Newsworld International, focusing on pop culture and social issues.

In March 2006, she succeeded Claude Galipeau as Senior Director of the division of 150 new media staff developing CBC.ca, the CBC website and Internet platform.

In May 2007, Gardner resigned from CBC, and shortly thereafter began consulting for the Wikimedia Foundation as a special advisor on operations and governance.

In December 2007, she was hired as the Foundation's Executive Director. Over the next two years, she oversaw growth of the staff including the addition of a fundraising team, and an office move from Tampa to San Francisco.

Annie Lin is a US-based singer/songwriter and the founder of the Ariadne Record label. She was born January 14, 1980 in Taiwan, and moved to the United States, settling in Southern California by the age of six.

Majoring in English at Rice University, Annie balanced a busy national touring schedule (100+ dates/year) with classes. After forming the Ariadne Record label in 2000, she released her first studio album Kicking Stars in 2001. The album was made up of original acoustic pop songs which showed a strong Lisa Loeb influence.

Annie soon expanded Ariadne to a full-service label, booking other bands and launching the Asian-American Songwriters Showcase, an event she created to spotlight Asian American talent. The AASS toured nationwide from 2001 to 2003 and featured such artists as Vienna Teng and Emm Gryner.

East Coast Songs, a collection of music written on the road, was released in 2002 and received positive reviews from the Houston Chronicle, Boston Phoenix, and Village Voice. In 2003 Annie graduated from Rice and began law school; Truck Was Struck was released on April 16, 2004, becoming Annie’s best selling effort thus far.