Wikimedia Foundation gets USD 2 million commitment from Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network was started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
The philanthropic investment group has now announced that they are going to provide USD 2 million in funds to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia Foundation is mostly known for their open source encyclopaedia service Wikipedia.
These funds would be [...]
Mozilla donates for Ogg development
Makers of Firefox web browser, Mozilla has made a donation of $100,000 to help in the development of open standards-based technology OGG for web video.
They are collaborating with the Wikimedia Foundation on this venture.
Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight are the two proprietary technologies which exist in this space.
Mozilla [...]
Wikipedia gets the required funds for ad-free operations
Wikipedia has a great fan base. This has been proved by the fact that the non profit organization running the popular online encyclopedia has met its $6 million fund raising goal for fiscal 2008.
The Wikimedia Foundation said it has raised $6.2 million.
It took a while and some effort [...]
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 [...]
