Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Gives $500,000 to Wikipedia

NY - A basis produced by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and the wife has given a $500,000 grant to Wikipedia that can help fund the organization's annual budget, Ars Technica reported. The internet encyclopedia holds a yearly fundraising event rather than accepting advertising. The grant from Brin and wife Anne Wojcicki would go to the Wikimedia Foundation, which started its latest annual fundraising event to aid Wikipedia and sister sites a week ago, based on the report. The fundraising event will tell you The month of january. The Wikimedia Foundation's total planned investing for that new fiscal year is $28.3 million, based on Ars Technica. This past year's campaign elevated $16 million toward the building blocks's $20 million budget. "If everybody reading through this contributed $5, our fundraising event could be over today," a note on Wikipedia stated. An individual appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, reported by Ars Technica, stated: "Google may have near to millions of servers. Yahoo has something similar to 13,000 staff. We now have 679 servers and 95 staff. Wikipedia may be the #5 site web serves 450 million differing people each month - with vast amounts of page sights. Commerce is okay. Advertising isn't evil. However it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia." Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Google