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World Wide Web Consortium

main international standards organization for the World Wide Web
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World Wide Web Consortium is a standards organization.[1] It was founded on October 1, 1994.[2]

Its headquarters are in Cambridge.[3] Its legal form is a consortium.

It had 61 employees in 2018.[4].

Key Facts

  • Field of work: standardization[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: voluntary association[5], academic publisher[6]
  • Founder: Tim Berners-Lee[7]
  • Operator: Massachusetts Institute of Technology[8], European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics[9], Keio University[10], Beihang University[11]
  • Headquarters location: Cambridge[12]
  • Child organization or unit: Improving Web Advertising Business Group[13], WebAssembly[14], Schema.org[15]
  • Commons category: W3C[16]
  • Industry: World Wide Web[17]
  • Chairperson: Tim Berners-Lee[18]
  • Inception: October 1, 1994[19]
  • Significant event: W3C re-launch as a public-interest non-profit organization[20]
  • Official website: https://w3.org/[21], https://www.chinaw3c.org/[22], https://www.w3c.fr/[23], https://www.w3.org/[24], https://www.w3.org/zh-hans/[25], https://www.w3.org/ja/[26]
  • Topic's main category: Category:World Wide Web Consortium[27]
  • Email address: mailto:membership@w3.org[28], mailto:copyright@w3.org[29]
  • Employees: 61[30], 45[31], 52[32]
  • Described by source: Dictionnaire des biens communs[33]
  • Motto text: Leading the Web to its full potential[34], Un seul web partout et pour tous[35]
  • Legal form: consortium[36], 501(c)(3) organization[37]
  • Official blog URL: https://www.w3.org/blog/[38]
  • Short name: W3C[39]
  • Owner of: Acid1[40], Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers[41], Resource Description Framework[42], SKOS[43], Web Ontology Language[44], SPARQL 1.1 Query Language[45], PROV-O: The PROV Ontology[46], XML[47], XML Schema[48], Turtle[49]
  • Different from: WC3 (A 3 Dans Les WC)[50]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[51], Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[52]

Why It Matters

World Wide Web Consortium has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[53] It is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[54]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [53] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [54] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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