Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Wikipedia has received the largest grant in history


 

   Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received the largest grant in its history, size of $ 3.6 million
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia, the grant was given Stanton Foundation. The money will be used to support the operation of technical possibilities of site. Wikipedia is a 5 most visited site of the world, and representatives of the project all the time talk about the need for substantial funds to maintain this flow of visitors.
   At the moment the audience of all Wikimedia projects exceeds 422 million unique visitors monthly. The resulting grant will be used to develop new interface editing articles to facilitate this process on the site.

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