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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which handles the cash donated to various charities and good causes by one of the co-founders of Hewlett-Packard and his wife, has given Wikimedia, the non-profit behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, a $500,000 grant to improve itself.Wikipedia is in no position to turn down cash from anyone, considering that Wikimedia is dedicated to open source and open content and relies on the kindness of strangers for not only its content, but also for the money to keep the Wikipedia project and numerous related projects afloat. But they must have been hoping for more help from the Hewlett Foundation, especially when you consider that Hewlett and his partner, Dave Packard, were engineers from Stanford University, created the original Silicon Valley IT startup, and had a lifelong dedication to education and the dissemination of news and information.
Reported at The Register
[theregister.co.uk...]
Interesting look at how funding for Wikipedia takes place... and why really big websites are expensive to operate!
What I do wonder is if Microsoft bought Wikipedia, would they still rank #1 for almost everything in Google's search?
