Wikipedia has collected no fewer than 7.5 million U.S. dollars in recent weeks. Its founder, Jimmy Wales warmly thank the donors.

After successfully ” collection of donations the brightest of our history », Wikipedia welcomes $ 7.5 million (5.25 million) collected in less than eight weeks.

In a message The founder of the online encyclopedia, Jimmy Wales, Wished to congratulate all its benefactors. He explains: ” It’s amazing, but I’m not surprised. Wikipedia is not funded by advertising, but by you. Wikipedia is the fifth website most visited in the world, and your donations fund our servers and our few employees. »

It must be said that the 14 million encyclopedia entries in 270 languages undergoing rapid development and continuous. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia particular, it is not less 340 million people who visited the site the Wikipedia online last month.

Since its launch in January 2001, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia was a great success. On average, each month nearly 250 million Internet users consult the articles available. All items are then written by Internet and each new visitor can freely change the content after registering with the site.

Jimmy Wales said: ” Your donations help keep Wikipedia free access and no ads. Your donations help provide free access to knowledge around the world. From the free and the free functioning