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Title: Wikipedia reaches 2008 donation target Post by: Alex on January 04, 2009, 07:27:33 AM Wikipedia reaches 2008 donation target
Wikimedia Foundation, the company behind the Wikipedia website, set themselves a target in 2008 for donations and announced today they reached it. Running a website like Wikipedia costs a lot of money and asking for donations is a great way to cover the costs, of course you didn't have to donate but after the founder Jimmy Wales released a personal appeal the donations kept on rolling in and in the end it totaled over $6 million. The total number of donors is not fully known but over 125,000 people donated and in December over 50,000 of them donated near to $2 million. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/FMPNjwDhzY8/wikipedia-reaches-2008-donation-target |