• January 5, 2009

The Wikimedia Foundation has achieved its goal of raising over $6 million (in U.S. dollars) to sustain Wikipedia. As of Jan. 2, the campaign had generated just over $6.2 million from 125,000 donors from around the world.

The San Francisco-based company said funds will be used to maintain and grow the Foundation's technical infrastructure, which includes managing global traffic for Wikipedia.

A personal appeal from founder Jimmy Wales, published on the Wikimedia Foundation's website on Dec. 23, 2008, resulted in a surge of more than 50,000 contributions in eight days, totaling $2 million and closing the gap towards the revenue goal.--Tanya Irwin