Wikipedia Will No Longer Accept Cryptocurrency Donations The Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the online encyclopedia, made the decision to leave crypto behind after a vote from the community.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doron Weber, Sloan program director for Universal Access to Recorded Knowledge, said Wikipedia represents "a quantum leap" in the collection of knowledge from around the world.

They could have bought a private island, tons of astronaut ice cream, or a condom for every person in El Paso, Texas, but Cards Against Humanity's creators donated to Wikipedia instead.

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

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 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 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 ...

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