The Wikimedia Foundation Gets $2M Google Grant
Google will donate $2 million to The Wikimedia Foundation, the Wikipedia operator officially announced Wednesday, confirming a tweet sent Tuesday by Wikipedia founder and Wikimedia Foundation board member Jimmy Wales.
The foundation said the grant marks the first from Google, although the two organizations have worked together, most notably resulting in Google’s Translation Toolkit supporting direct online translation of Wikipedia articles.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said:
Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet. This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.
Wales
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