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Google founder donates 500,000 dollars to Wikipedia
Nov 19, 2011, 15:08 GMT
San Francisco - Google's billionaire founder has donated 500,000 dollars to the collaborative media organization that runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, it was announced Friday.
Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, donated the money via the Brin Wojcicki Foundation to the Wikimedia Foundation to help kickstart a fundraising drive for the free websites, which runs without the support of advertising.
'This grant is an important endorsement of the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, and I hope it will send a signal as we kick off our annual fundraising campaign this week,' Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said in a statement.
'This is how Wikipedia works: people use it, they like it, and so they help pay for it, to keep it freely available for themselves and for everyone around the world. I am very grateful to Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki for supporting what we do.'
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