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)

Lounsbery Foundation: Donation of $40,000 to cover daily projects, launch Wikispecies, continue improving existing projects.

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

Sustaining donors ($1000 to $4999)

fact-index.com (August 2004): Donation of $2500 from Wikipedia mirror.

Donors ($500 to $999)

Equipment and Services

Yahoo! (7 April 2005): Hosting capacity for Wikimedia projects in Yahoo's Asian facilities. Wikipedia content integrated into French-language Yahoo Search shortcuts as a test project. (PR: FR, EN)

Lost-Oasis (January 2005): Offered to host three servers in a colocation facility in Paris, and to pay for the Internet connection.

Logical Solutions (October 2004): Donated a Sentinel32 32-port secure console server and RJ45 to DB9 adapters.

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)

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

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.

September 2004

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