Google Gives to Wikipedia

Google is giving $2 million to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web's most-read sites.

Wikimedia Foundation, owner of Wikipedia, said Wednesday that Google has donated $2 million to further develop the popular encyclopedia and other projects. Google co-founder Sergey Brin called Wikipedia "one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet...this vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online." The search giant's funds will be used on technology projects to help Wikipedia handle its increasing bandwidth and multimedia needs. Wikimedia received more than $8 million in donations during a January fund-raiser, three-fourths of its revenue target for the fiscal year.