Sergey Brin donated $ 500 thousand for Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia Foundation received the largest donation in its current fundraising campaign, which kicked off this week. Half a million dollars came from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, Sergei 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. Money comes from the readers themselves, ordinary users usually transfer between 5-10 euros. Fortunately, some may part with a larger amount.

    “This grant is an important recognition of the Wikimedia Foundation and its merits, and I hope that it will give the necessary impetus to our annual fundraising campaign that we launched this week,” said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation. - This is how Wikipedia works: people read, they like it, and then they help pay for it in order to maintain free access to it for themselves and for everyone in the world. I am very grateful to Sergey Brin and Anna Wojitski 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 ​​have been compiled by a community of more than 100,000 people.

    In terms of 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 are forced to save on everything.

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