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==<span id="WHO"></span>Who owns Wikipedia?==
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:Wikipedia's tech framework is supported by the [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]], which also supports Wikipedia's sister projects, including [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikibooks]], and others, and owns all of their domain names. Previously, the site was hosted on the servers of [[Bomis]], a company mostly owned by [[Jimmy Wales]]. With the announcement of the Wikimedia Foundation on June 20, 2003, the ownership of all domain names was transferred to the Foundation. The site is run by the community of [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]] guided by the [[Wikipedia:Five pillars|five pillars]].

:The articles hosted on this site have been edited by many people, each of whom has (by editing the article) agreed to release their contributions under the [[WP:CC-BY-SA|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike]] license. As such, the articles are [[free content]] and may be reproduced freely under this license. See [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] and [[Wikipedia:Readers' FAQ]] for information on how you can use Wikipedia content.

:By law, contributions are still owned by the people who donated them. These people are not bound by the license and can use their property in the way they like. However, media with multiple authors require permission from every contributor to use them differently from the terms of the Wikipedia license.