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Wikipedia Fundraiser Reaches $16 Million Goal In Record Time

2011 is looking up for Wikipedia, the collaborative free-content internet encyclopedia.

On January 1, co-founder Jimmy Wales announced in a blog post that the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's non-profit parent company that also manages other free Wikis (such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons), had reached its yearly fundraiser goal in record time.

"Even though we raised more this year than any other year--$16 million--it was also the shortest fundraiser we've ever had," wrote Wales. He also wrote that more than 500,000 donations were made to the Wikimedia Foundation.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/wikipedia-fundraiser-reaches-goal_n_803555.html