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[CNET News.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | Deep Tech - CNET News: Wikimedia is funded primarily by individual donations, the organization said. In its fund-raiser for 2009 and 2010, 240000 people donated more than $8 million--three quarters of Wikimedia's budget.

[Geek.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia Foundation | Geek.com: Wikimedia Foundation announced today that Google has donated $2 million to help continue the development of Wikipedia and other projects.  The funds are intended to support Wikipedia’s bandwidth costs and “multimedia needs”.

[mysticalscent..com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | News Tecnology ...: Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia. The search colossus is helping to fund the group that operates Wikipedia, founder Jimmy Wales says.

[MediaPost | Online Media Daily] MediaPost Publications Google Gives Wikimedia $2 Mil 02/17/2010: "However," notes The Register (UK), "while the gift will secure Wikipedia's financing for the time being, the site still faces the problem of a decline in the number of footsoldiers willing to edit the site for free." This marks Google's first donation to the foundation, which is expected to support core operational costs, including investments in technical infrastructure.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google Donates $2 million to Wikipedia Foundation: WASHINGTON - Tech giants Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google, which holds a 65 percent market share in online search. Under a 10-year deal, websites from both companies would use Microsoft's Bing search engine, which could now integrate Yahoo's considerable trove of search technology.

[Keegy - United States] Keegy United States - Google Gives $2 Million to Wikimedia ...: This time, the search giant has donated $2000000 to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs and maintains Wikipedia.The donation, in true social media fashion, was announced via tweets from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales and Wikimedi .

[ProlX.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | ProlX.com: The search colossus is helping to fund the group that operates Wikipedia, founder Jimmy Wales says. Also: 958 million Wiki edits and counting.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google gives $2 million to foundation behind Wikipedia, matching ...: Study suggests doctors could add to Wikipedia NEW YORK ”” Researchers are suggesting that doctors could be spending more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages on medical topics, despite questions that have been raised about the collaborative online encyclopedia's credibility. Medical professionals should recognize that Wikipedia has become a major online source of health information for consumers, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

[MarketplaceJA Blog] Wikimedia Received $2 M Grant From Google | MarketplaceJA Blog: Wikimedia board member Jimmy Wales, who was a key figure in the creation of Wikipedia, announced the grant on Tuesday on twitter and said a formal statement will be made today. The statement was in fact released, but the full details are not yet clear.

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[2FRESHâ™ | Fresh Blogâ™ | Inspiration, knowledge and other fresh stuff from 2FRESHâ™] 2FRESHâ™ | Fresh Blogâ™ | Inspiration, knowledge and other fresh ...: 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."

[BN's blog] Wikimedia Storyboard: Some stuff I’ll still have to review further at some point is how to make the stories searchable, how to best internationalize the stories and how I’ll implement the “share” features.

[Wikimedia UK Blog] Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia « Wikimedia UK ...: Wikimedia UK is currently organising Britain Loves Wikipedia, a free photography contest to be held in participating museums across the UK throughout February, with the resulting images being used to illustrate Wikipedia articles. Previous content partnerships with Wikimedia in other countries have included the Bundesarchiv and Deutsche Fotothek in Germany, the Tropenmuseum in The Netherlands, Regionarkivet in Sweden and Queensland Museum, Australia.

[TechCrunch] $3 Million Donation For The Sum Of All Human Knowledge: Although there’s no real reason why a not-for-profit shouldn’t get its money from ads anymore than Oxfam shouldn’t make a profit on second-hand books and clothes, businesses don’t generally run on donations and charities don’t generally run on ad revenue.

[Apple Investor] Google's Latest Philanthropic Interest: Wikipedia [UPDATED ...: Most recently, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation have partnered to support translation of Wikipedia content into key languages with relatively small Wikipedia editions. Google’s Translation Toolkit supports direct online translation of Wikipedia articles, and has been used by Google in Wikipedia translation pilot projects with speakers of Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili.

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