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[IT PRO - Today] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | IT PRO: Spokesman Jay Walsh said the money would primarily be directed at expanding the organisation's technical infrastructure. At present it relies on a pair of data centres - in Florida and Amsterdam - with bandwidth coming courtesy of a Dutch company.

[TopINews Blog] Google donates to support Wikimedia Foundation || TopINews Blog: , like investments in technical infrastructure to support rapidly-increasing global traffic and capacity demands.  The funds will also be used to support the organization’s efforts to make Wikipedia easier to use and more accessible.

[Hot Topics Online] Google Gives 2 Million Dollar to Wikipedia - Richest Google: The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant made so far to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the 7-year-old Wikipedia. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar also donated $2 million to Wikimedia six months ago through one of his investment arms.

[TopNews Singapore] Wikipedia Get $2 Million Donation by Google | TopNews Singapore: This also points out to an increase of more than 20% as it was $8.7 million last year. Crowning the donators for making Wikipedia excel and keeping the website commercially free, Spokesman Jay Walsh said, "We intend to keep it that way, too.

[Apple Investor] Google Gives $2 Million to Wikipedia « Apple Investor: Wikimedia currently relies on two data centers, one in Florida and another in Amsterdam, with bandwidth services donated by a Dutch company. “Considering the rise of server traffic from outside of Europe and the U.S., it’s become important for us to look at expanding our data centers in new locations,”

[Komplett Blog] Google Makes $2 million Wiki Donation | Komplett Blog: A further Wikimedia spokesman, Jay Walsh said that the grant could also help the foundation’s outreach activities, which are aimed at increasing contributions from subject-matter experts, students and academics, as well as developing better teaching and learning tools.

[Your Story] Wikipedia Annual Fundraiser Goal Supported by Record Number of ...: According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 345 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide (November, 2009). Available in more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 14 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people.

[WSJ.com: Digits] How Long Can Wikipedia Sustain its Ambitions? - Digits - WSJ: (The rest comes from large donations already earmarked for Wikimedia.) This would be a big jump from last year’s roughly $1.5 million in individual gifts. The spokesman, Jay Walsh, says there are nearly 100,000 individual donors this year, nearly tripling the number of donor names in Wikimedia’s database.

[TG Daily] Wikipedia saved! Surpasses fundraising goals | TG Daily: 4) $472,000 for "Office of the Executive Director," which the Wikimedia Foundation cites as "salaries for the Executive Director and Deputy Director, as well as miscellaneous costs including travel, some fundraising expenses and the costs of the annual staff meeting .and increased spending for staff and volunteer development."

[Daily News Blog] Google donates $2 million to support Wikipedia (AP) | Daily News Blog: The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant made so far to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the 7-year-old Wikipedia. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar also donated $2 million to Wikimedia six months .

[Stevevirgin's Blog] Google gives 2m dollars to Wikipedia « Stevevirgin's Blog: Google Inc., the Internet’s most profitable company, is giving USD 2 million to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web’s most-read sites. Wikimedia Foundation, owner of Wikipedia, said Wednesday that Google has donated USD 2 million to further develop the popular encyclopedia and other projects.

[Libraries of the Future] JISC conference - closing keynote speech, Angela Beesley ...: Wikimedia isn’t just an English language project, but exists in 230 other languages, including Gaelic, Welsh and even Cornish.  The most well-known project is Wikipedia.  It started in 2001, and is the eighth most visited site in the world.  There are 10 million articles, completely created by volunteers, built completely bottom-up by the community.  It is openly editable; you don’t have to apply to become an editor - just click ‘edit this page’

[Celticreconstructionist's Blog] Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. * Privacy policy * About Wikipedia * Disclaimers.

[The Wikipedia Review] The Wikipedia Timeline - The Wikipedia Review: Arbitration Committee, (founding) Jan 2004, (Sandifer prosecutions) Mar 2005, (appointments) Oct 2005, (Kelly Martin resigns, elections) Jan 2006, (Mongo case) Oct 2006, (R Marsden case), Nov 2006, (elections) Dec 2006, ( (Essjay) Feb 2007, (IRC) Feb 2007, (Arbcom and J Wales) Apr 2007, (BADSITES) Sept 2007, (elections) Dec 2007, (elections) Dec 2008, (S Blacketer) May 2009

[Answers.com: Today in History] Ken Jennings: Biography from Answers.com: Jennings graduated from Brigham Young University in 2000, majoring in computer science and English... Jennings lost to Nancy Zerg in his 75th show on this Final Jeopardy clue: "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." Jennings answered "What is FedEx?", but Zerg had the correct answer of "What is H&R Block?"

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