Jay Walsh wrote:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - October 5, 2011 - The Wikimedia Foundation announced today it has been awarded the largest-ever grant in its history: $3.6 million from the Stanton Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to fund major investments in the technology infrastructure that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects, in order to successfully serve their growing readership. The Wikimedia projects currently reach more than 422 million unique visitors around the world every month (comScore, August 2011), making Wikipedia the fifth most-popular website in the world.
The grant will fund development of a new editing interface that will make it possible for people to easily edit Wikipedia without needing to learn special wiki syntax. It will also support development of new technical features to make Wikimedia a friendlier and more understandable environment for new editors, and an improved mobile experience for readers and editors.
Is the grant restricted or unrestricted? (Is there a copy of the agreement somewhere?)
Apologies if this is obvious or already stated elsewhere. I couldn't figure it out.
MZMcBride