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| -----Original Message----- | From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- | bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sue Gardner | Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:28 AM | To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org | Subject: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 | million | | Hi all, | | I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of | USD 2 million. It will come to us via the Google Fund at the Tides | Foundation, which handles all of Google's philanthropic activity, and | it is completely unrestricted. | | We'll be putting out a press release tomorrow, but I wanted to tell | you beforehand. This is really great news. It's important to us | financially, of course, but I see it as equally important from a | symbolic perspective. I believe that Wikimedia and Google are natural | allies and partners --- we both want to help provide people everywhere | around the world with information. It seems natural to me that Google | would want to support Wikimedia's work, and I am happy they are doing | it. | | You probably know that Google and Wikimedia -�both editors and | Wikimedia Foundation staff-- have, from time to time, collaborated on | projects together. (For example, the Google team has created | functionality inside the Google Translate Toolkit that enables editing | and uploading of translated articles to Wikipedia.) This grant will | not be channeled specifically towards Google-related activities: it | will go into our general operating revenues. Having said that, I look | forward to Google and Wikimedia continuing to do good work together. | | The press release is below. It will go out tomorrow morning , but you | don't need to keep this news confidential. Feel free to tell your | friends :-) | | Thanks, | Sue Gardner | | | | | Wikimedia Foundation announces $2 million grant from Google | Donation will support capacity investments in Wikipedia and other free | knowledge projects | | EMBARGOED UNTIL 8:00AM PST, February 17 2009 | | SAN FRANCISCO, CA February 17, 2009 -- The Wikimedia Foundation, the | non-profit that operates Wikipedia, today announced that it has | received a $2 million (USD) grant from the Google Inc. Charitable | Giving Fund of Tides Foundation. This is the Wikimedia Foundation's | first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs | of the Wikimedia Foundation, including 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. | | "Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet," offered | Google co-founder Sergey Brin. "This vast repository of | community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is | online." | | Wikipedia founder and Wikimedia Foundation board member, Jimmy Wales, | also commented on the Google gift. "We are very pleased and grateful. | This is a wonderful gift, and we celebrate it as recognition of the | long-term alignment and friendship between Google and Wikimedia. Both | organizations are committed to bringing high quality information to | hundreds of millions of individuals every day, and to making the | Internet better for everyone." | | The two organizations have a long-standing working relationship. Most | recently, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation have partnered to | support translation of Wikipedia content into key languages with | relatively small Wikipedia editions. Google's Translation Toolkit | supports direct online translation of Wikipedia articles, and has been | used by Google in Wikipedia translation pilot projects with speakers | of Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili. | | Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, offered: | "It is wonderful that Google has stepped forward as a major supporter | of a global, non-profit information commons. With this generous grant, | we will be able to fund additional operations and development work to | increase access and contributions to our free knowledge projects | globally." | | Wikimedia's support comes primarily from individual donations made by | regular users of Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation completed its | 2009-10 fundraiser in January. During the drive, 240,000 individuals | donated more than $8 million, representing three quarters of its | planned revenue for the fiscal year. | | -- | ?Sue Gardner | Executive Director | Wikimedia Foundation | | 415 839 6885 office | 415 816 9967 cell | | Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in | the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! | | http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate | | _______________________________________________ | foundation-l mailing list | foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org | Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l