Wikimedia: $ 25 million collected in 2012

Since November 27, Wikimedia has launched a fundraising over a large part of its services to fund the development, talks and other costs bustling maintenance services offered for free.

In just one month, and would be $ 25 million raised from 1.2 million donors who participate in funding the operation of the sites for the year 2013.

 In an official statement, Sue Gadner, executive director of the foundation is pleased that this transaction have met much success and the online community can work together to continue to distribute content for free in the world.

In the previous collection, users were less generous or less sensitive to the transaction and the collection was displayed at 20 million, a tidy sum that has led to the development of infrastructure, but also the implementation up a mobile version of the site and other solutions for data export format Ebook.

 According to analyzes of firm comScore, Wikipedia and other sites have concentrated more than 483 million unique visitors per month, placing the site in the top 5 most popular websites in the world.

After periods of doubt about the future of Wikipedia and its funding, the foundation seems to have awareness of its users and away temporarily closing threats related to lack of funds.