Archive:Benefactors/2010–2011
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 help to sustain the projects of Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Benefactors.
While only a select number of donors are listed on this page, every donation to the Wikimedia Foundation helps enrich the quality of our projects.
Note: All figures are in $US
Patrons ($15,000 and above)
- Lounsbery Foundation (Winter 2004)
- Donation of $40,000 to cover daily projects, launch Wikispecies, continue improving existing projects.
- Jeff Moe (en.wikipedia user jebba)
- $17,666 total : $6,666 in one time donations and $11,000 from $1000 monthly donations since July 2005
Leading donors ($5000 to $14,999)
- The John and Frances Beck Foundation (October 2004)
- $10,000.
- The W. Glen Boyd Charitable Foundation (October 2006)
- $10,000 "Information is freedom!"
- Jeff Minor (January 2006)
- $10,000 "From our users to yours."
- Anonymous donor
- $5000 : $1000 each month since January 2006 (Feb | Mar | Apr | May)
Sustaining donors ($1000 to $4999)
- Fact-index.com (August 2004)
- From a successful Wikipedia mirror .
- Netleksikon.dk (June 2005)
- Ross Mayfield of Socialtext (December 2005)
- "Socialtext, the first wiki company, is proud to support the Wikimedia Foundation."
- Garry Osgood (December 2005)
- Lydia Bell (December 2005)
- David Gardner (December 2005)
- "Great site! Very Foolish!"
- Peter Hamilton (New Year's Day, 2006)
- Wesley Boyd (January 2006)
- David Peterson (January 2006)
- James Ward (January 2006)
- Martin Schmitt (February 2006)
- Anonymous donors
- December, 2006 : 2006-12-18 , 2006-12-20 , 2006-12-28
- Novermber, 2006 : 2006-11-03
- August, 2006 : 2005-08-20, 2005-08-30
- March, 2006 : 2006-03-01
- February, 2006 : 2006-02-09 (independent from the monthly anonymous donor on the same day)
- January, 2006 : 2006-01-02 , 2006-01-30
Equipment and Services
- Answers.com (20 October 2005)
- Creator of "1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition" software.
- 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
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.
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).
See also:
- Press release/Kennisnet ondersteunt Wikimedia-projecten
- Press releases/Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects
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.