By Kevin McCauley
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is awarding another $3M grant to Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group that runs Wikipedia.
The New York-based philanthropy gave the money as part of its universal access to knowledge effort that is part of its digital information technology push.
Doron Weber, VP/programs at Sloan, says Wikipedia “embodies the ideal values of the worldwide web” and that the Foundation is proud to be part of its push to use the wisdom of crowds to create the “most open global encyclopedia in human history.
The Foundation granted a $3M award to Wikimedia from `08 to `10, money that helped bootstrapped the organization.
Wikimedia intends to use the money to increase the diversity of its editors and reach more readers in developing nations.
The Wikimedia Foundation says Wikipedia and its other online projects attract more nearly 400M unique visitors each month.
Wikipedia is available in 270 languages and has more than 18M articles. |