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November 14

Is (Redacted) owner of Wikipedia?

Is (Redacted) owner of Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:7471:6C00:FC18:9C0D:2C54:C0B4 (talk) 10:10, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have redacted your mention of some random wikipedian. Nil Einne (talk) 10:14, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No. The Wikimedia Foundation runs the servers as well as the trademarks and domain names. The Wikimedia Foundation is a non profit set up under the laws of Florida and the US and so no one 'owns' it. Our contributions generally retain the copyright over their work, however we all (and this includes you) agree to licence our contributions under a suitable free licence by contributing here. For textual contributions such as this, these are the CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence and GFDL. This means anyone may choose to make their own copy of any of the content of Wikipedia by obeying the licence terms, although they'd have to be careful about what they call it. The WMF have no particular right to the content over and above what anyone else has. Nil Einne (talk) 10:22, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, if you have gotten into a dispute over something, you should consider carefully what experienced editors are telling you, and not worry about who owns wikipedia. Nil Einne (talk) 10:24, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]