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[Troy McConaghy's Personal Blog] The Wikimedia Foundation had already raised about $2 million from the Sloan Foundation, the Stanton Foundation, Arcadia, and an anonymous donor prior to November 5. The rest came from small(ish) donations from oodles of donors—that’s the data in the recent data dump.
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