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The [[About Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]] is grateful for every donation made to the project, be it time, money or hardware. This page is dedicated to some of the larger donations made by companies and individuals which are helping to sustain the projects of Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors. Please see our [[fundraising]] page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact the Wikimedia Board at <tt>board at wikimedia.org</tt>.
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The '''[[Frequently asked questions|Wikimedia Foundation]]''', Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of [[:w:en:free content|free]], multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these [[:en:wiki|wiki]]-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the [[Our projects|largest collaboratively edited reference projects]] in the world, including [//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], a top-ten Internet property.
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==Wikimania 2005==
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[[Image:AnswersReflection1.gif|thumb|200px|right|[http://www.answers.com Answers.com]]]
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Wikimania, Wikimedia's first international conference in August 2005 was a milestone in the history of Wikimedia. Organized entirely by volunteers from within the community, the event was greeted enthusiastically by the media and the 400 participants from 50 countries around the world. Such a conference was only possible thanks to the help of corporate sponsors: [http://www.answers.com Answers.com], [http://www.socialtext.com Socialtext], [http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems], [http://www.doccheck.de/ DocCheck], [http://www.logos.it Logos] and others. So we are especially happy to receive their gratulations:
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:"congratulations for a remarkable event. We're proud to be associated with you, and keep up the great work on a landmark system which, history will record, changed the face of modern content." ''-- Bob Rosenschein, CEO Answers.com''
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<span style="color:#0645AD; font-variant:small-caps; text-transform:lowercase; font-size:120%; margin-top:1em; ">'''Our Benefactors'''</span> support our mission around the globe. We rely on the expertise and generosity of thousands of people.&nbsp;<span style="color:#0645AD;">'''Thank you.'''</span></p>
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Have questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation? Please send an email to benefactors<span class="nowrap">[[File:At sign.svg|15px|@|link=]]</span>wikimedia.org.
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This page reflects gifts received between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. [[Benefactors/2009-2010| See 2009-2010 benefactors.]]
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_Presentations
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==May 2005==
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'''26 May, 2005:''' The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the best-known project of the Wikimedia Foundation, will receive technical support from Kennisnet, thus helping the Foundation to achieve its goal of improving the capacity and responsiveness of Wikipedia. The agreement was reached to promote the shared values and educational objectives of Kennisnet and the Wikimedia Foundation.
* [//sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|Press release]])
* The Brin Wojcicki Foundation
* Craigslist Charitable Fund
* The David and Jamie Cummings Family
* The Ford Foundation
* Google Matching Gifts Foundation
* The James and Angela Thompson Foundation
* [//www.omidyar.com Omidyar Network]
* Shor Family Foundation
* Stanton Foundation
* The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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To mark this cooperation, Kennisnet will be present with the Wikimedia Foundation at the Holland Open conference in Amsterdam on May 31st, 2005 (www.hollandopen.nl). In his keynote address, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and president of the Wikimedia Foundation, will expand on this new partnership.
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* Christopher Ruddy
* John Caulkins
* Milonja Bjelic
* Ryan and Lisa McCorvie
* Two Sigma Investments, LLC
* Unz Foundation
* [//www.yardi.com/USHome/UsHome.aspx Yardi Systems]
* Anonymous donors
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Kennisnet has found in the Wikimedia Foundation a reliable partner with regard to open content and freely licensed knowledge. The cooperation extends across several projects, including the “Ultimate Wiktionary”, a project for the integration of lexicological content, and a project celebrating the jubilee of Queen Beatrix (www.25jaarbeatrix.kennisnet.nl).
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* [//www.aidanproducts.com Aidan Products, LLC]
* Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation
* Elon Musk
* [//www.edwardtufte.com/ Graphics Press, LLC]
* Jeffrey N. Dauber
* J. Willis Jarvis
* Purnendu Ojha
* Kevin O'Shea
* Mark Heising and Liz Simons
* Nora Roberts Foundation
* Scott Banister
* Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
* [//witizen.org Witizen.org]
* Anonymous donors
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* Adam Fila
* Alex Poon
* Anna Scott
* Anup Mantri
* Bernhard Friess
* Betty Harrell Gerlack
* Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey
* Brian McInnis
* Brian White
* Christopher J. Lingle
* Dalibor Antonic
* David Bydeley
* Don Husby
* Don and Jill Knuth
* Douglas Ferguson
* En souvenir de Réal Labelle
* Fred Hipp
* Greg and Liz Lutz
* Gabe Newell
* Heather Bendler
* Hiromasa Nagase
* The IEEE Electron Devices Society
* In memory of Seymour Durst
* Jacob Albrecht
* Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family
* Jeffrey Lamkin
* Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit
* John G. Dove, Arlington, Massachusetts
* John and Lenore Cooney
* Johnson Watts
* Julien Basch
* KeepCalling
* Kenneth Eddings
* Linda Lee
* Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher
* Marc Forand
* Mathew Donovan
* Murtada Elkhalifa
* Raghavan Srinivasan
* [//www.ravikalidindi.com Ravi Kalidindi]
* [//www.kandarian.com/ Richard Kandarian]
* Richard Yonash
* Rob and Anna Prestezog
* Robert Wares
* Roland Digital Group Africa
* Steve Kass
* Steve and Marty Schlossstein, Princeton, New Jersey
* Susan Woodward
* Takashi Kousaka
* Tetsuya Isozaki
* Timothy Mott
* Vadim Asadov
* [[Staff|Wikimedia Foundation Staff]]
* Anonymous donors
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* Cisco
* [//www.comscore.com comScore]
* Electronic Frontier Foundation
* [//www.evoswitch.com EvoSwitch]
* Exbrook Design
* Kennisnet Amsterdam
* [//www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb]
* [//nostarch.com/ No Starch Press]
* Perkins Coie
* Tele2
* [//www.teliasoneraic.com TeliaSonera International Carrier]
* WatchMouse
* [//www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati]
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The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:
* [[File:Flag of Australia.svg|22px|border|Australia]] Australia: ''[//www.wikimedia.org.au/ Wikimedia Australia]''
* [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|22px|border|Austria]] Austria: ''[//www.wikimedia.at/ Wikimedia Österreich]''
* [[File:Flag of France.svg|22px|border|France]] France: ''[//www.wikimedia.fr/ Wikimédia France]''
* [[File:Flag of Germany.svg|22px|border|Germany]] Germany: ''[//www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland]''
* [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|22px|border|Hungary]] Hungary: ''[//wiki.media.hu/ Wikimédia Magyarország]''
* [[File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|22px|border|The Netherlands]] Netherlands: ''[//nl.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Nederland]''
* [[File:Flag of Sweden.svg|22px|border|Sweden]] Sweden: ''[//se.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Sverige]''
* [[File:Flag of Switzerland.svg|22px|border|Switzerland]] Switzerland: ''[//www.wikimedia.ch/ Wikimedia CH]''
* [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|22px|border|United Kingdom]] United Kingdom: [//www.wikimedia.org.uk Wikimedia UK]
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* [//amex-casinos.com Amex Online Casinos]
* [//www.avago.com.au Avago]
* [//www.aweber.com AWeber]
* [//www.blackfriday2010.com Black Friday]
* [//www.blueskyscrubs.com Blue Sky Scrubs]
* [//www.impactsigns.com/bronze-plaque Bronze Plaques]
* [//www.carinsurancecompanies.com/ Car Insurance Companies]
* [//en.casino-lemonade.com/ Casino Lemonade]
* [//www.cheap-buys.com Cheap-Buys.com]
* [//www.clicktime.com ClickTime]
* [//www.cnaclasses.org CNA Classes]
* [//www.shop.cookmax.de Cookmax]
* [//www.couponchief.com/ CouponChief.com]
* [//www.couponcommando.com/ CouponCommando.com]
* [//www.couponloco.com Coupon Loco]
* [//www.creditloan.com/ Credit Loan]
* [//www.customessaymeister.com/ Customessaymeister.com]
* [//www.cybermonday2010.com Cyber Monday]
* [//www.data-recovery-software.net Data Recovery Software]
* [//www.dentalinsurancecare.com Dental Insurance Care]
* [//www.dentalinsurancetips.com Dental Insurance Tips]
* [//www.dessertrecipes.org Dessert Recipes]
* [//www.thebreedsofdogs.com Dog Breeds]
* [//www.e-goldprospecting.com e-goldprospecting.com]
* [//e-mortgage.org e-Mortgage]
* [//www.easy-dessertrecipes.com Easy Dessert Recipes]
* [//www.expo-max.com expo-MAX]
* [//flowersofdx.wordpress.com/ Flowers of DX]
* [//www.freeshipping.org Free Shipping]
* [//www.gasnaturaldistribucion.com Gas Natural Distribución]
* [//www.gopromotional.co.uk Go Promotional]
* [//www.herpesalliance.org Herpes Alliance]
* [//www.herpesdoctor.com Herpes Doctor]
* [//www.homemaderecipes.org/ Homemade Recipes]
* [//www.impactsigns.com Impact Business Signs]
* [//www.impactsigns.com/memorial-plaques Impact Memorial Plaques]
* [//www.impactsigns.com/custom-office-signs Impact Office Signs]
* [//www.kitchenbakeware.org Kitchen Bakeware]
* [//www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au Kitchenware Direct]
* [//www.lasvegashotels.com/ Las Vegas Hotels]
* [//www.LCautoinsurance.com LC Auto Insurance]
* [//www.miinto.dk/ miinto]
* [//www.nobelcom.com NobelCom]
* [//www.online-druck.biz Online Druckerei]
* [//www.outdoorkidz.de/ OudoorKidz.de]
* [//www.planrover.com PlanRover.com]
* [//www.ratedetective.com.au/insurance/income-protection Rate Detective]
* [//www.rpower.com RPower Restaurant POS]
* [//www.rulearts.com RuleArts]
* [//www.seefido.com SeeFido.com]
* [//www.selfstorageco.com/ Self Storage Company]
* Smart Balance Transfers
* [//www.Tlifeinsurance.com T Life Insurance]
* [//www.theravive.com Theravive]
* [//www.vimo.com Vimo.com]
* [//www.vitavalida.de/ VitaValida]
* [//websiteservers.com/ Website Servers]
* [//www.worldtvradio.com World TV and Radio Tuner]
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* [[Press release/Kennisnet ondersteunt Wikimedia-projecten]]
Have questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation? Please send an email to benefactors<span class="nowrap">[[File:At sign.svg|15px|@|link=]]</span>wikimedia.org.
* [[Press releases/Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects]]


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==April 2005==
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'''April 7, 2005:''' The [http://wikimediafoundation.org/ Wikimedia Foundation] and [http://yahoo.com Yahoo!] announced today that they have reached an agreement by which Yahoo will provide hosting capacity to Wikimedia. Yahoo will dedicate a significant number of servers in one of its Asian facilities for hosting Wikimedia's free content websites. Jimmy Wales, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, says that this generous donation will be of particular benefit to the vibrant and growing community of Wikipedia users in that part of the world.
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Yahoo!'s donation is a gesture of support for the charitable goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and does not imply any ownership of the content. Yahoo! does not expect Wikimedia to host advertisements in return for this support.

As of April 7, Yahoo! will also test the integration of Wikipedia content in its French-language Yahoo! Search [http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=guatemala&meta=vl%3D shortcuts], to be followed by other languages to accommodate users in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. The shortcuts will show contextually relevant abstracts of [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] articles in response to user queries.

Yahoo! is one of the Wikimedia Foundation's earliest corporate supporters. The relationship began last year with Yahoo!'s integration of Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, into their [http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release1144.html Content Acquisition Program].

See also:
*[[Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation annonce le soutien de Yahoo!]]
* [[Press releases/Wikimedia announces Yahoo support]]

==Pre-February 2005==

Thanks to [http://www.bomis.com/ Bomis], who have until October 2004 paid the total cost of Wikimedia's hosting and bandwidth fees, and from October 2004 to February 2005 continued to sponsor half of these fees.

==January 2005==

In January 2005, we were granted $40,000 by the [http://rlounsbery.org/default.asp Lounsbery Foundation]. Our grant application specified we would spend this in the following way:

*to cover our daily operations,
*to enable us to launch our new Wikispecies project, and
*to continue to improve our existing projects.

Thanks to Lost Oasis who is now hosting 3 of our servers for free in Paris. '''http://lost-oasis.fr.'''

==October 2004==

* Thanks to [http://www.sunhelp.org Bill Bradford] and [http://www.thinklogical.com/ Logical Solutions] for the donation of a much needed [http://www.thinklogical.com/products/sentinel32.html Sentinel32] 32-port secure console server and RJ45 to DB9 adapters.
* [http://lost-oasis.fr/ Lost-Oasis], a French Internet service provider, has offered to host 3 servers in a colocation facility in Paris, and to pay for the Internet connection.
*The '''[http://www.ahbeck.com/ Beck Foundation]''' offered us a 10,000 USD grant to support a Wikijunior project (short encyclopedia-style children's books on specific subjects). The current plan is to create content for 48-page print books on Geography, Animals, and Astronomy. See [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior Wikijunior] for more details. Thanks to the Beck Foundation.

==September 2004==

Thanks to the thousands of people who donated to our $50,000 [[Fundraising]] drive this month. See the [[Fund drives/2004/Q4|list of donors]].

==August 2004==

Thanks to [http://www.fact-index.com/ fact-index.com], a mirror of Wikipedia's content, for the donation of $2500.

Latest revision as of 07:06, 27 March 2024

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten Internet property.

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Our Benefactors support our mission around the globe. We rely on the expertise and generosity of thousands of people. Thank you.

Contact

Have questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation? Please send an email to benefactors@wikimedia.org.

This page reflects gifts received between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. See 2009-2010 benefactors.

Major Benefactors

  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Press release)
  • The Brin Wojcicki Foundation
  • Craigslist Charitable Fund
  • The David and Jamie Cummings Family
  • The Ford Foundation
  • Google Matching Gifts Foundation
  • The James and Angela Thompson Foundation
  • Omidyar Network
  • Shor Family Foundation
  • Stanton Foundation
  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Patrons

  • Christopher Ruddy
  • John Caulkins
  • Milonja Bjelic
  • Ryan and Lisa McCorvie
  • Two Sigma Investments, LLC
  • Unz Foundation
  • Yardi Systems
  • Anonymous donors

Leading Donors

  • Aidan Products, LLC
  • Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation
  • Elon Musk
  • Graphics Press, LLC
  • Jeffrey N. Dauber
  • J. Willis Jarvis
  • Purnendu Ojha
  • Kevin O'Shea
  • Mark Heising and Liz Simons
  • Nora Roberts Foundation
  • Scott Banister
  • Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
  • Witizen.org
  • Anonymous donors

Sustaining Donors

  • Adam Fila
  • Alex Poon
  • Anna Scott
  • Anup Mantri
  • Bernhard Friess
  • Betty Harrell Gerlack
  • Bill Edwards and Ron Bailey
  • Brian McInnis
  • Brian White
  • Christopher J. Lingle
  • Dalibor Antonic
  • David Bydeley
  • Don Husby
  • Don and Jill Knuth
  • Douglas Ferguson
  • En souvenir de Réal Labelle
  • Fred Hipp
  • Greg and Liz Lutz
  • Gabe Newell
  • Heather Bendler
  • Hiromasa Nagase
  • The IEEE Electron Devices Society
  • In memory of Seymour Durst
  • Jacob Albrecht
  • Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family
  • Jeffrey Lamkin
  • Jhilmil & Punchhi Pandit
  • John G. Dove, Arlington, Massachusetts
  • John and Lenore Cooney
  • Johnson Watts
  • Julien Basch
  • KeepCalling
  • Kenneth Eddings
  • Linda Lee
  • Manoj Padki and Manisha Kher
  • Marc Forand
  • Mathew Donovan
  • Murtada Elkhalifa
  • Raghavan Srinivasan
  • Ravi Kalidindi
  • Richard Kandarian
  • Richard Yonash
  • Rob and Anna Prestezog
  • Robert Wares
  • Roland Digital Group Africa
  • Steve Kass
  • Steve and Marty Schlossstein, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Susan Woodward
  • Takashi Kousaka
  • Tetsuya Isozaki
  • Timothy Mott
  • Vadim Asadov
  • Wikimedia Foundation Staff
  • Anonymous donors

Donations of Goods and Services

Special Thanks to our Chapters

The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:

Corporate sustaining donors

Contact

Have questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation? Please send an email to benefactors@wikimedia.org.

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