Sergey Brin donated 500,000 dollars to ' Wikipedia '

Sergey Brin. One of the founders of the corporation Google, and his wife have donated 500,000 dollars to the fund Wikimedia, Wikipedia supports the project and associated portals. It is reported by Agence France-Presse.
Earlier this week, Wikimedia Foundation has launched its annual campaign to raise money to develop the free encyclopedia. Now all visitors to meet Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia handling founder Jimmy Wales, which encourages users to donate funds for the project.

In 2010 he. Google. donated $ 2 million to the fund Wikimedia.

Sergey Brin, commenting on the donation, called the ' Wikipedia ' ' one of the greatest achievements of the Internet '.

Google has also provided the Wikimedia their tools for translating articles ' Wikipedia ' for pilot projects in Arabic, Hindi and Swahili.

Wikimedia is a nonprofit organization that exists primarily on donations. The vast majority of projects supported by the Fund, free of advertising and are not focused on profit. Almost all the work for creating and editing content, users do it themselves, while the foundation staff are responsible for the technical support of projects (servers, software, etc.).