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Template:SponsorLang The Wikimedia Foundation is grateful for every donation made to the project, be it time, money or hardware. This page is dedicated to some of the larger donations made by companies and individuals which are helping to sustain the projects of Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation does not necessarily endorse the activities of its Corporate Benefactors. Please see our fundraising page for details of making donations via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact the Wikimedia Board at board at wikimedia.org.

April 2005[edit]

April 7, 2005: The Wikimedia Foundation and Yahoo! announced today that they have reached an agreement by which Yahoo will provide hosting capacity to Wikimedia. Yahoo will dedicate a significant number of servers in one of its Asian facilities for hosting Wikimedia's free content websites. Jimmy Wales, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, says that this generous donation will be of particular benefit to the vibrant and growing community of Wikipedia users in that part of the world.

Yahoo!'s donation is a gesture of support for the charitable goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and does not imply any ownership of the content. Yahoo! does not expect Wikimedia to host advertisements in return for this support.

As of April 7, Yahoo! will also test the integration of Wikipedia content in its French-language Yahoo! Search shortcuts, to be followed by other languages to accommodate users in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. The shortcuts will show contextually relevant abstracts of Wikipedia articles in response to user queries.

Yahoo! is one of the Wikimedia Foundation's earliest corporate supporters. The relationship began last year with Yahoo!'s integration of Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, into their Content Acquisition Program.

See also Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation annonce le soutien de Yahoo!


Press releases/Wikimedia announces Yahoo support

Pre-February 2005[edit]

Thanks to Bomis, who have until October 2004 paid the total cost of Wikimedia's hosting and bandwidth fees, and from October 2004 to February 2005 continued to sponsor half of these fees.

January 2005[edit]

In January 2005, we were granted $40,000 by the Lounsbery Foundation. Our grant application specified we would spend this in the following way:

  • to cover our daily operations,
  • to enable us to launch our new Wikispecies project, and
  • to continue to improve our existing projects.

Thanks to Lost Oasis who is now hosting 3 of our servers for free in Paris. http://lost-oasis.fr.

October 2004[edit]

  • Thanks to Bill Bradford and Logical Solutions for the donation of a much needed Sentinel32 32-port secure console server and RJ45 to DB9 adapters.
  • Lost-Oasis, a French Internet service provider, has offered to host 3 servers in a colocation facility in Paris, and to pay for the Internet connection.
  • The John and Frances Beck Foundation offered us a 10,000 USD grant to support a Wikijunior project (short encyclopedia-style children's books on specific subjects). The current plan is to create content for 48-page print books on Geography, Animals, and Astronomy. See Wikijunior for more details. Thanks to the Beck Foundation.

September 2004[edit]

Thanks to the thousands of people who donated to our $50,000 Fundraising drive this month. See the list of donors.

August 2004[edit]

Thanks to fact-index.com, a mirror of Wikipedia's content, for the donation of $2500.