The Wikipedia foundation, which manages the online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia, said he had received from Google a donation of $ 2 million that will fund its current operations and invest in its infrastructure.
This represents a quarter of the $ 8 million he got Wikimedia between November and January, thanks to the fundraising campaign more lucrative than the foundation has organized so far, to cover a budget of about $ 9.4 million 2009-2010.
"Wikipedia is one of the great triumphs of the internet", justified a co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin was quoted by a statement from Wikimedia. "This vast repository of information generated by the community of Internet users is an invaluable resource for everyone," he said.
Nonprofit organization based in San Francisco (west coast U.S.), Wikimedia operates with only 35 employees when their sites receive over 364 million unique visitors per month, allowing you to claim the title of fifth website more visited the world.
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