# Wikimedia raises $320,000 in three-week campaign

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/02/03/wikimedia-raises-320000-threeweek-campaign/
- Published: 2006-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

Most donations came from the US in dollars, with Euros and then pounds the next 
most popular currencies.

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