Jay Walsh wrote: > SAN FRANCISCO, CA - October 5, 2011 - The Wikimedia Foundation announced > today it has been awarded the largest-ever grant in its history: $3.6 > million from the Stanton Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to fund > major investments in the technology infrastructure that supports Wikipedia > and its sister projects, in order to successfully serve their growing > readership. The Wikimedia projects currently reach more than 422 million > unique visitors around the world every month (comScore, August 2011), making > Wikipedia the fifth most-popular website in the world. > > The grant will fund development of a new editing interface that will make it > possible for people to easily edit Wikipedia without needing to learn > special wiki syntax. It will also support development of new technical > features to make Wikimedia a friendlier and more understandable environment > for new editors, and an improved mobile experience for readers and editors.
Is the grant restricted or unrestricted? (Is there a copy of the agreement somewhere?) Apologies if this is obvious or already stated elsewhere. I couldn't figure it out. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
