[Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

[Bod Notbod]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Veronique Kessler
<vkessler at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the comment.  The "mm" signifies millions which is the amount
> the timeline is representing, $6 million from 125,000 donors globally.
> If we were to replace it with one "m", that would signify only $6 thousand.
>
> See also: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_abbreviation_of_million

I'm not sure whether to take you seriously given the reference at that
link but anyway...

How about the fifth bullet point here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MoS#Large_numbers