Wikimedia raises $320,000 in three-week campaign
Howard Lake | 3 February 2006 | News
The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organisation of online encyclopedia Wikipedia and other free-content projects has successfully raised nearly a third of a million dollars from readers and contributors after Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made a personal appeal for donations.
The appeal raised $173,000 in the second half of December and $298,000 in January.
The Foundation says it needs to raise funds to help it cover costs and make the most of new opportunities now that it is “one of the 30 most popular websites in the world” with traffic that has grown by 600% in 2005.
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Most donations came from the US in dollars, with Euros and then pounds the next most popular currencies.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.