[Wikide-l] Yahoo und wikipedia kuscheln

[Mathias Schindler]

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  	   April 07, 2005 08:01 AM US Eastern Timezone

Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate Support of Wikipedia from 
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the Organization to Run Wikipedia Independently

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 
2005--Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops and 
maintains free open content for the public, and Yahoo! Search, a leading 
global search engine, today announced that Yahoo! Search will dedicate 
hardware and resources to support Wikipedia, a community based 
encyclopedia written and edited by people from around the world. The 
contribution is the most significant dedication made to date to the 
Wikimedia Foundation by a corporate sponsor and is essential to 
furthering their global growth.

In addition, Wikipedia content will become available to hundreds of 
millions of users worldwide through Yahoo! Search via shortcuts that are 
automatically displayed above the relevant search results 
(http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/). Yahoo! will begin making 
Wikipedia content available via shortcuts in the U.S., select European, 
Asian, and Latin American properties over the next several weeks.

"Yahoo! Search's support and vast user base will provide critical 
material aid and global reach for Wikipedia," said Jimmy Wales, founder 
of Wikimedia Foundation. "Yahoo! has been Wikipedia's longest-standing 
corporate supporter and with this dedication of resources we will be 
able to offer Wikipedia content to a growing worldwide audience, while 
maintaining full flexibility in our ability to expand relationships and 
freely distribute our works."

Since its launch in 2001, the popularity and support for Wikipedia has 
continued to grow. Today Wikipedia is one of the 100 most visited Web 
sites worldwide, according to Alexa Internet Traffic Rankings, 2005.

"Wikipedia is one of the most recognized community-generated resources 
of its kind and it demonstrates the ability to create and manage a high 
quality content experience," said David Mandelbrot, vice president of 
search content at Yahoo!. "Supporting the expansion of this free service 
aligns with our objective to help people search for and use online 
content, while also encouraging the growth of communities where people 
can share and expand upon the growing collection of information on the Web."

About Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an international non-profit 
organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and 
distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full 
content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. 
Wikimedia relies on public donations to meet its goal of providing free 
knowledge to every person in the world.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked 
Internet destination worldwide. Yahoo! provides online products and 
services essential to consumers' lives, and offers a full range of tools 
and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users 
around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
	
Contacts
		
	
Yahoo! Inc.
Aaron Ferstman, 408-349-4902
aaronf at yahoo-inc.com
or
Wikimedia Foundation
Jimmy Wales, 727-231-0101