Template:SponsorLang The 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 board at wikimedia.org.

All figures are USD$

Patrons ($5000 or more)

The John and Frances Beck Foundation (October 2004): $10,000 to initiate Wikijunior.

Sustaining donors ($1000 to $4999)

Donors ($500 to $999)

Equipment and Services

Bomis: Paid for Wikipedia's hosting and bandwidth fees before the Wikimedia Foundation (2001-October 2004), and later paid for half of the Foundation's operating costs. (October 2004-February 2005)
Logical Solutions (October 2004): Donated a Sentinel32 32-port secure console server and RJ45 to DB9 adapters.
Lost-Oasis (October 2004): Offered to host three servers in a colocation facility in Paris, and to pay for the Internet connection.

Wikimania 2005

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Answers.com

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Socialtext

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: Answers.com, Socialtext, Sun Microsystems, DocCheck, Logos and others. So we are especially happy to receive their gratulations:

Bob Rosenschein, CEO of Answers.com:

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.

and Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext comments on Wikimania:

When good people come together great things happen. Behind all the content there is a vibrant community. It was wonderful to participate in the event, share what's happening with enterprise wikis and see new initiatives take root. I also commend you one of the best volunteer-powered conferences ever. Wikimania was the best investment our company has made, bar none, for a greater common future.

OSI (Open Society Institute) also sponsored 20 000 dollars to help inviting speakers and visitors from several countries and in particular from Africa and South America.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_Presentations

May 2005

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.

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.

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).

April 2005

April 7, 2005: The Wikimedia Foundation and 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.

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 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 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 Content Acquisition Program.

January 2005

In January 2005, we were granted $40,000 by the 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.

September 2004

Thanks to the thousands of people who donated to our $50,000 Fundraising drive this month. See the list of donors.

August 2004

Thanks to fact-index.com, a mirror of Wikipedia's content, for the donation of $2500.