Administrator DKT27 Posted February 17, 2010 Administrator Share Posted February 17, 2010 Google has made a $2 million donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site. Jimmy Wales, a member of the board who helped create Wikipedia, announced the donation in a tweet on Tuesday. He said a formal announcement would come Wednesday. Google and Wikimedia did indeed make a formal announcement of the grant, saying the funds will support technical infrastructure to support growing traffic and to help make Wikipedia "easier to use and more accessible." "Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet. This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a statement. Wikimedia is funded primarily by individual donations; in the organization's fund-raiser for 2009 and 2010, 240,000 people donated more than $8 million during three quarters of Wikimedia's budget. Mitch Kapor, a Wikimedia advisory board member, also announced the Google funding. Wikipedia is a vast source of information posted online and edited by individuals rather than a central authority. Its pages emerge frequently in Google searches. Other Wikimedia projects include the Wikibooks book repository, the Wiktionary dictionary, and the Wikimedia Commons repository of images and other media files. So far, more than 958 million editing changes have been made to Wikimedia projects, according to the organization's statistics counter. Source - CNET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Now, if I just have that kind of money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 17, 2010 Author Administrator Share Posted February 17, 2010 Borrow it from Google. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donizme Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 If Wikipedia go down then Google would lose much revenue as many people click on Wikipedia after searching Google. There is also much 'chain' effect such as if you search Google for wiki, you might as well search Google for other stuff, meaning more cash 4 Googly etc... :sneaky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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