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Google co-founder donates $ 500,000 to Wikipedia
Meanwhile, Wikipedia has launched its fund rising campaign with the personal request from its founder Jimmy wales. The online free encyclopedia in last year have raised $16 million. Moreover, Wales has repeatedly said that there would not be any advertising in wikipedia which was created in 2001.
Earlier, Wales had said that, “Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia." According to a report published by comScore, Wikipedia is ranked as most popular website in Internet with over 470 million unique visitors every month.
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Story first published: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 14:03 [IST]