Google founders donate $ 500.000 to Wikipedia

19.11.2011 [14:05]
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Baku, November 19 (AZERTAC). Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife donated 500.000 dollars to Wikipedia. Wikipedia will raise $28.3 million this year. Since always, wikipedia doesn`t accept ads, only accept the collection.

Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, along with his wife, contributed $ 500 thousand (Rp 4, 5 billion) to the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia site, Wikipedia. Commissioned to analyze the fund given by Wojcicki Brin Foundation, founded by Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, who is also a co-founder of the company 23andMe. Similarly, as quoted from ST. Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit Foundation has launched the process of collecting funds this week. Each visitor will be confronted with the announcement Wikipedia donation by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.

Earlier, in 2010, Google accounted for about $ 2 million (Rp1, 8 billion) to Wikimedia.Wikipedia founder Jimmy wales, has said: "Google may have nearly ten thousand servers, and yahoo has 13000 employees. We have only 693 servers and 95 employees. Wikipedia is the world's fifth largest website, monthly service 45 million different user, with billions of PV. Business is good, advertising is not the demon, but don't belong here, do not belong to wikipedia."

Google founders donate $ 500.000 to Wikipedia

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