The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has received a $500,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its work bringing free educational content to everyone on the planet.
With this grant, the Hewlett Foundation acknowledges the important role Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation projects play in making educational information freely accessible.
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In addition to its strategic planning process, Wikimedia's priorities for the current fiscal year include two major initiatives to improve the user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, the development of a set of training materials to engage new potential volunteer editors, the establishment of key metrics tracking Wikimedia's impact, and improved access to Wikimedia project data for researchers.In addition to its strategic planning process, [our emphasis] Wikimedia's priorities for the current fiscal year include two major initiatives to improve the user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, the development of a set of training materials to engage new potential volunteer editors, the establishment of key metrics tracking Wikimedia's impact, and improved access to Wikimedia project data for researchers.
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