The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation donates to Wikimedia
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has donated to Wikimedia which is responsible for the popular open source encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
The grand of $500,000 has been provided to improve the service.
Wikipedia relies on donations like these and from regular web users for running its operations. [...]

Wikipedia to improve editing UI to attract more contributors
Wikipedia has stated that they have received a $890,000 grant to make it easier for new users to make edits to the open source encyclopedia easily.
The editing interface of the MediaWiki application which powers the Wikipedia uses technical syntaxes which are somewhat complicated for the users [...]