Sergey Brin donated $ 500 thousand to Wikimedia
The Wikimedia Foundation received the largest donation in the current fundraising campaign, which started this week. Half a million dollars came from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, a charitable foundation of the Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki.
This money will be a significant contribution to the common piggy bank. For Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, grants and donations are the main source of livelihood. The money comes from the readers themselves, ordinary users usually transfer 5-10 euros. Fortunately, some may part with a larger amount.
“This grant is an important recognition of the Wikimedia Foundation’s organization and merit, and I hope it will give the necessary impetus to our annual fundraising campaign we started this week,” said Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “This is how Wikipedia works: people read, they like it, and then they help pay for it in order to keep free access to it for themselves and for everyone in the world. I am very grateful to Sergey Brin and Anna Vojitsky for supporting our work. ”
Wikimedia projects serve an audience of 477 million unique visitors per month (comScore, October 2011), and Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on the Internet. More than 20 million articles in 280+ languages ​​compiled by community forces, which has more than 100 thousand people.
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By technical equipment, the fifth website on the Internet is much inferior to its "competitors". Google has about a million servers, and Yahoo has approximately 13,000 employees. For comparison, the Wikimedia Foundation has only 679 servers and 95 employees , that is, they have to save on everything.
This money will be a significant contribution to the common piggy bank. For Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, grants and donations are the main source of livelihood. The money comes from the readers themselves, ordinary users usually transfer 5-10 euros. Fortunately, some may part with a larger amount.
“This grant is an important recognition of the Wikimedia Foundation’s organization and merit, and I hope it will give the necessary impetus to our annual fundraising campaign we started this week,” said Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “This is how Wikipedia works: people read, they like it, and then they help pay for it in order to keep free access to it for themselves and for everyone in the world. I am very grateful to Sergey Brin and Anna Vojitsky for supporting our work. ”
Wikimedia projects serve an audience of 477 million unique visitors per month (comScore, October 2011), and Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on the Internet. More than 20 million articles in 280+ languages ​​compiled by community forces, which has more than 100 thousand people.
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By technical equipment, the fifth website on the Internet is much inferior to its "competitors". Google has about a million servers, and Yahoo has approximately 13,000 employees. For comparison, the Wikimedia Foundation has only 679 servers and 95 employees , that is, they have to save on everything.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/132946/
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