The Wikimedia foundation, a nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects, recently announced that Amazon made a $1 million gift to its endowment fund. This donation makes ...

You’ve seen the donation banners—but what’s really behind them? This is what Wikipedia doesn’t tell you about its finances.

It worked. From 2011 to 2012, Wikipedia’s fundraising arm, the Wikimedia Foundation, pulled in $38.4 million.

Wikipedia is leveraged throughout Google’s products from Knowledge Graph panels in Search to Assistant results on Google Home and other devices. Google.org today announced a $2 million donation ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has received a $2.5m donation to boost its cybersecurity efforts following a major DDoS attack that left Wikipedia unavailable across much of the world last weekend. The ...

The other digital assistants also draw on Wikipedia’s peer-edited brain, including Google Assistant and Siri, which, as I wrote recently, is using Wikipedia to bolster its celebrity knowledge in ...

After offering to donate $1 billion to Wikipedia during the weekend, with the condition of a name change, Elon Musk has now spoken about a “fundamental difference” he perceives between the ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was onstage to witness Durov’s compassionate financial vow. “How old are you?,” Wales asked Durov. I wish I could give away $1 million when I was 27, he joked.

Wikipedia may soon tweak its website and operations, thanks to a $3 million donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The money will go towards cementing the site’s credibility through new ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is donating $500,000 to help curb harassment on Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation announced Thursday that money from the Craig Newmark ...

Is Jimmy Wales testing out Bitcoin donations for Wikipedia? He is certainly considering it, according to a thread on Reddit. It first started with a tweet — Wikipedia co-founder set up a ...

Mere days after Wikipedia put up its new and improved plea for donations, the company has already met its goal of raising $6 million.