The nonprofit organization that maintains the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, it needs U.S. $ 16 million for the fifth most popular website in the world can continue to operate. According to the paper published online chile Transmedia technology, the foundation needs the money to "Wikipedia and its sister projects to remain freely available for people around the world."
behind Wikipedia Foundation announced a September report from comScore, which ranked the online encyclopedia in the twelfth place of the most visited Web sites in the United States with nearly 80 million unique visitors. Google has 180 million hits Facebook and just under 150 million. But the English Wikipedia content represents only a fifth of the total content. According
Wikimedia Foundation operating costs for 2010-2011 are estimated around U.S. $ 20 million. Last year, the foundation received almost 250,000 individual donations from more than 100 countries which achieved the target of U.S. $ 8 million.
But this year, in addition to cash donations, the foundation asks readers to become editors. The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, said: "Over the past 10 years, Wikipedia has become a public resource vital for hundreds of millions of people. We have come to need to be available and that is also free, without bias or interference and without publicity. "
(Source: Notes. November 18, 2010.)
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