The Wikimedia Foundation are having a fundraising drive at the moment, but who are the main benefactors?

In this fundraising drive, an ‘anonymous friend’ donated $286,800 . The next largest donation is from Two Sigma Investments at $25,000 . I am extremely curious who this anonymous friend is, and for some reason I supsect it is Google or another large Internet corporation.

Google and the Wikipedia seem to have a good relationship; however they are not on the list of all-time benefactors, but Yahoo! are.

The fact nearly $1,000,000 has been donated perhaps shows how charitable today’s internet is. I’m sure, nonetheless, that most Wikipedia readers don’t donate. I haven’t made a donation as I feel that my contributions are enough.

Tags: wikipedia, wikimedia foundation, fundraising