One of the greatest triumphs of the Internet

Google loaded $2M in cash into the tubes, and sent it over to Wikimedia, the nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia. The donation, which matches the donation from Pierre Omidyar's from six months ago, will go the distance to ensuring Wikipedia will continue to hum along in 2010. Despite the recession, people have apparently been loosening the purse strings and sending cash Wikimedia's way. Over 240,000 have given so far this fiscal year (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010).

While we're on the subject of giving, another worthwhile organization to give to, is the Sunshine Press -- the nonprofit that is the custodian of Wikileaks -- the organization that specializes in shining the light in darkest recesses of censorship around the world. Wikileaks provides a forum for whistle blowers to get classified, censored and otherwise lost truths, into the open. Wikileaks has been attacked by many governments, including those of the free, democratically elected type. In response, Wikileaks is distributed, making a complete take down of the site, very, very hard. Sunshine Press has an annual budget of $600,000 -- and so far, they only have half of that raised to fund their operations in 2010.

in reference to:

"But the worst recession since World War II evidently didn't dampen support for the Internet's most popular encyclopedia, which has more than 14 million entries written and edited by some 100,000 unpaid contributors in about 270 languages."
- The Associated Press: Google donates $2 million to support Wikipedia (view on Google Sidewiki)

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