Wikipedia collects record $20 million in latest fundraiser

[Little Tich]

Source: Los Angeles Times

There's something kind of heartwarming about the annual Wikipedia fundraiser, which came to a close Jan. 1.

Each year, the world's fifth-most popular Web property asks its monthly 470 million users to pony up some money to keep the gears turning at Wikimedia's San Francisco headquarters, and each year the world responds by sending donations in varying amounts, from $5 to $500,000.

This year the company raised more than $20 million. The money came from more than 1 million donors in almost every country in the world.

It's the most the organization has ever raised since it started the annual fundraiser in 2003.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/wikipedia-brings-in-record-breaking-20-million-in-latest-fundraiser.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Wikipedia has a bad rep among some academics. It is undeserved

(for the most part). I have been watching it develop, and am amazed at its content. It is becoming the primary general information database for the world.

[Historic NY]

3. I agree its is getting much better with committed people world wide ...

working toward a collective goal.

[boppers]

4. It was "earned" in it's earlier days.

Students were turning in badly sourced, random, crap they found in wikipedia.

Then the citation policy/rule/culture changed, so "facts" require "sources". Crazy idea, but it totally turned everything around.

[wickerwoman]

2. Must be Founder Jimmy Wales' uber-creepy eyes over every article.

But in all seriousness, good for them. Can't even remember what life without wikipedia was like.

[Blue_Tires]

7. lol

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wikipedia-donation-banner-captions/photos?sort=views

[mainer]

8. I think Jimmy Wales is hot

but that's not why I donated.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Not bad! I use it every day.

And find it fascinating.

[harun]

6. Very nice. Such a great resource.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Congratulations to Wikipedia, I view them as an Internet treasure.

Thanks for the thread, Little Tich.