[Wikipl-l] FW: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

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| 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
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