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[TakePart Social Action Networkâ™] A bulk of Wikimedia Foundation donations received will be used to maintain its online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the most popular online destinations and globally around 250 million people visit the Wikipedia every month.

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[TechBlips - Top Technology News, Videos, and Blogs] Gone Phishing - Wikipedia , Online: The Wikimedia Foundation , the non-profit organization behind the immensely popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia, just announced that it has reached its fundraising goal for 2008, which will allow the foundation to cover its operating expenses for ...

[webCLEVR] Wikipedia reaches USD6m target: Online encyclopedia Wikipedia announced on Friday that it had attained its fundraising goal of $6 million

[Coated dot Com - The Gadget Authority] Charity Donations Saves Non-Profit Online Encyclopedia Wikipedia ...: A last minute plea by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales resulted in the organization making up the deficit, thereby allowing it to reach it’s financial needs for 2009. Whales could have gone the route of online advertising on the site to generate revenue, but stated that “Like a national park or a school, we don’t believe advertising should have a place in Wikipedia”.

[Tech Central - Times Online - WBLG] Tech Central - Times Online - WBLG: Wikipedia proves its ...: Wikimedia spokesman Jay Walsh said expanding thefoundation's Wikipedia Academies will be a major goal in the comingyear. The program sends Wikimedia staff to institutions around theworld for discussions with experts in different fields, partly in hopesof drawing more academics and professionals to the site.

[Hack In The Box] Wikipedia reaches $US6m fundraising target :: Hack In The Box ...: ONLINE encyclopedia Wikipedia said last week that it had attained its fundraising goal of $US6 million, enough to cover operating expenses for the current fiscal year.

[GMA News.tv] GMANews.TV - Wikipedia meets $6M fundraising goal for '08 ...: SAN FRANCISCO - The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008.

[TECH.BLORGE.com] Wikipedia meets $6 million goal - TECH.BLORGE.com: The Wikimedia Foundation hopes that contributions made by major organizations will help to bolster the online encyclopedia’s reputation for accuracy and institutional acceptance. Academics who often criticize the user-contributed articles would have lees room for that criticism if Wikipedia was funded by the same institutions that fund their academic studies.

[Technology News] Technology News » Blog Archive » Wikipedia exceeds $6m donation goal: A personal plea for cash by Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, has melted enough hearts to keep the ubiquitous online encyclopedia running for another fiscal year - and then some.

[Sooper Tutorials] Wikipedia raises 6 million funds | Featured Articles & Tutorials: Wikipedia is free encyclopedia manage by non profit organization running without ads, the founder of this site jimmy Wales appealed for the funds from the Wikipedia visitors in the mid of 2008. Jimmy Wales’s announced the total funds of 6.2 million which the Wikipedia user contributed and will be used for further improvement of the online free encyclopedia by providing more contents and bandwidth.

[Marcelino 2.0] Marcelino 2.0 » Blog Archive » Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?: Swartz analyzed percentage-of-text instead of number of edits, and what he found was slightly different: The bulk of the original content on Wikipedia is contributed by tens of thousands of outsiders, each of whom may not make many other contributions to the site. The bulk of the changes to the original text, then, are made by a core group of heavy editors who make thousands of tiny edits (the 1400 freaks).

[Neatorama] 2% Wikipediaholics Account for 73.4% of All Wikipedia Edits ...: Wales decided to run a simple study to find out: he counted who made the most edits to the site. "I expected to find something like an 80-20 rule: 80% of the work being done by 20% of the users, just because that seems to come up a lot.

[Jerz's Literacy Weblog] File:ADVENT -- Will Crowther's original version.png - Wikipedia ...: An explanation of how to do this can be found at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline - the easiest way to add a fair-use rationale is with a template such as {{non-free use rationale}}. If this is not fixed within a week, .

[ItPatil Blog] Wikipedia meets $6 million fundraising goal (AP) - ItPatil Blog: SAN FRANCISCO - The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia , the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008.

[Smartphone and Gadget News by ElectroGeek] Wikipedia meets $6 million fundraising goal | Smartphone and ...: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008….

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