Google co-founder donates 500,000 dollars to Wikipedia
Das Online-Lexikon Wikipedia bekommt eine Spende von 500'000 Dollar von Google-Mitgründer Sergey Brin und seiner Frau. Die Wikipedia-Betreiber gaben den Beitrag der Stiftung Brin Wojcicki Foundation am Freitag bekannt.
The online encyclopaedia launched its annual fundraising campaign on Wednesday. The encyclopedia, which is made by the users themselves, does not advertise and is therefore dependent on donations. The 2011/12 budget provides for expenditure of 28.2 million dollars. Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, collected 15 million dollars within 50 days. On the first day of the current campaign, 1.2 million dollars were raised from 61,000 donors, Wikimedia spokesperson Jay Walsh told the US blog "All Things Digital". The foundation set up by Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, a genetic researcher, has so far supported the fight against Parkinson's disease, among other things. (SDA)
