A Conversation (Audio) with Jimmy Wales & Google's Donation to Wikimedia Now Official
Last night we posted that Google was going to donate $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation (parent of Wikipedia and MANY other projects as you can here).
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, today announced that it has received a $2 million (USD) grant from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation. This is the Wikimedia Foundation's first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs of the Wikimedia Foundation, including investments in technical infrastructure to support rapidly-increasing global traffic and capacity demands. The funds will also be used to support the organization's efforts to make Wikipedia easier to use and more accessible.
"Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet," offered Google co-founder Sergey Brin. "This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online."
Also, on Gabriel Weinberg's blog you'll find a new interview (audio) with Jimmy Wales. It runs about 30 minutes. Weinberg writes:
Jimmy explains how each project got traction over time. He also talks about press and vision.
This interview is ~30min. At Jimmy's request, we did not record video, so I put his picture up throughout the audio. If you just want the audio, use the mp3 version. You can also get the video on your iPod/iPhone via iTunes.
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