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Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons
Published on ReadWriteWeb.com: July 1, 2009
By Jolie O'Dell
The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia's repository for free, sharable multimedia files.
"We are thrilled that the Ford Foundation is supporting this project," said Wikimedia Executive Director Sue Gardner in a statement issued today by the Wikimedia Foundation.
"We want to make uploading files to Commons as easy as possible so that people everywhere can join us in helping Commons grow. The bigger Commons is, the more people it will serve."
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