| 06.01.12 "Wikipedia" gathered $ 20 million donation |
Non-profit organization "Wikimedia Foundation" has completed its annual campaign to collect donations for the development of their projects, the largest of which is "Wikipedia"
Campaign 2011-2012, was recognized as the "most successful" in history - in its course had been collected 20 million dollars, according to the blog,"Wikimedia Foundation". Money is transferred over a million people.
The planned annual budget wiki projects is 28.3 million dollars. Most of the funds received from users, the remaining amount is made in the form of grants to various organizations.
Means, according to"Wikimedia Foundation", will be put on the purchase of servers, development sites and mobile services and legal support to the projects.
On Web sites,"Wikimedia Foundation" does not advertise, they exist solely on donations from users and organizations. Fundraising campaign organized annually since 2003.
The last campaign was launched November 16, 2011. On the pages of "Wikipedia" treatment were placed prominent projects, including founder Jimmy Wales and encyclopedia developer Brandon Harris. They urged members to transfer funds to projects. Treatment accompanied by photographs.
January 15, 2012 "Wikipedia" turns 11 years old. Encyclopedia has more than 20 million articles in 282 languages, and its supplement over a hundred thousand volunteers.
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