You remember the banner that is in the pages of the Wikipedia site for a few months ago?Now the banner that asks you to donate money for the Wikimedia foundation, Wikipedia isthe owner of the site had been removed.
In its official announcement, the Wikimedia Foundation, says that they managed to raise funds up to U.S. $ 20 million or about Rp180 billion, a figure who became their targets.
According to Jay Walsh, a spokesman for Wikipedia, more than 1 million donors from around the world have contributed. Walsh also mentioned that the achievement of funds in 2011, well past their total donations to the year 2008, which only amounted to U.S. $ 4.5million.
"Now we have removed our fundraising banner because thanks to you all, we have reached the target," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation,cited by DailyTech, January 3, 2011.
For several months, Gardner said, more than 1 million people from around the world havebeen raising money to keep Wikipedia and other websites under it remain alive at least for the year ahead.
Gardner said the funds collected will be used to run the operations, human resourcescosts, server and network sites in the group the Wikimedia Foundation. Currently,Wikipedia servers themselves have saved more than 20 million articles
Wikipedia erupakan fifth most popular website across the Internet. On January 15, 2012, he will celebrate their birthday is the 11th.
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