Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
EU Transparency Register
596597913132-95 First registered on 03 Mar 2014
Goals / Remit
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally, through websites like Wikipedia. In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.
Main EU files targeted
The Foundation is currently following the legislative processes for the Digital Services Act, Combating child sexual abuse online (CSAM), and Anti-SLAPP directive, and European Media Freedom Act.
Address
Head Office
1 Montgomery StreetSuite 1600
San Francisco 94104
UNITED STATESEU Office
1 Montgomery StreetSuite 1600
San Francisco 94104
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
*Global Network Initiative: https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/
*Access to Knowledge Coalition: https://www.a2k-coalition.org/
*Freedom Online coalition: https://freedomonlinecoalition.com/task_forces_and_wg/task-force-on-trustworthy-info-online/
*Keep It On coalition: https://www.accessnow.org/campaign/keepiton/#coalition
*Network of Centers http://networkofcenters.net/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
165,416,403€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Other financial info
Total budget was earned in USD, conversion into Euro performed via Oanda.com with dat adjustment to June 30,2023.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
WMF seeks to engage directly with EU representatives about policy issues and concerns, either on our own behalf or through coalitions. We have not engaged in many public campaigns to raise awareness around specific policy issues. Where we have this has been pursued via public positions on https://wikimediapolicy.medium.com/ and https://wikimediafoundation.org/.
These include:
**https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/the-wikimedia-foundations-perspective-on-the-dsa-and-its-global-implications-b7e84a026d7eOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 09 Dec 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 14 Nov 2014 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with Mr Dimitar Dimitrov - Wikimedia Position Paper on EU Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)