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All intellectual property rights and domain names about Wikipedia were moved to the Foundation after its inception,<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/3399843/Wikipedia-founder-Jimmy-Wales-goes-bananas.html |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/3399843/Wikipedia-founder-Jimmy-Wales-goes-bananas.html |archive-date = January 11, 2022 |url-access = subscription |url-status = live |title = Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales goes bananas |newspaper = The Daily Telegraph |access-date = December 26, 2017 |date = November 7, 2008 |last = Neate |first = Rupert}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and it currently owns the [[domain name]]s and maintains most of the [[Wikimedia movement]]'s websites.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-0049703|title=GuideStar – WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION, INC.|access-date=2020-02-11|archive-date=2021-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121083722/https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-0049703|url-status=live}}</ref> WMF is now the registrant of the domain [https://www.wikipedia.org/ wikipedia.org], owner of the trademark and operator of the wiki platform. It also runs projects like [[Wikibooks]], [[Wikidata]], [[Wiktionary]] and [[Wikimedia Commons]]; it raises money, distributes grants, controls the servers, develops and deploys software, and does outreach to support Wikimedia projects, including the [[English Wikipedia]].
The Foundation's mission is collection and distribution of educational knowledge under free licenses or public domain and promised to keep these projects free of charge.<ref name="wikimedia-mission">{{cite web | url = https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement | title = Mission statement | publisher = Wikimedia Foundation | access-date = January 28, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080117000000/https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement | archive-date = January 17, 2008 | first = Florence | last = Devouard | author-link = Florence Devouard | url-status = live }}</ref> It engages in [[advocacy group|political advocacy]] regarding copyright, press freedom and legal protection of websites from liability related to user content,<ref>{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Jasper |date=February 12, 2017 |title='We always look for reliability': why Wikipedia's editors cut out the Daily Mail |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/12/wikipedia-daily-mail-reliability-ban-katherine-maher |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=February 13, 2017 |quote="Another core job for the foundation – and Maher – is political advocacy. While copyright and press freedom are important issues for Wikipedia, there is one area even more fundamental to its operation – the rules that protect web firms from full liability for what their users post." |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213213309/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/12/wikipedia-daily-mail-reliability-ban-katherine-maher |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> and communities are protected by the Global Advocacy Team.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/15/meet-the-wikimedia-foundation-global-advocacy-team/ | title = Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy Team | publisher = Wikimedia Foundation | access-date = August 20, 2024 }}</ref>{{primary inline|date=September 2024}}
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