Google Donates to Wikipedia

Makes sense for all the assistant players to do this, since keeping the information up to date, quickly accessible and maintained, is an important resource for assistants.     Also support for the future of Wikimedia, and how its data resources link to AI capabilities, is also important.

Google.org donates $2 million to Wikipedia’s parent org   By Megan Rose Dickey in Techcrunch

Google, as well as many other companies, has long relied on Wikipedia for its content. Now, Google and Google.org are giving back.

Google.org President Jacquelline Fuller today announced a $2 million contribution to the Wikimedia Endowment. An additional $1.1 million donation went to the Wikimedia Foundation, courtesy of a campaign where Google employees decided where to direct Google’s donation dollars. The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, while the Endowment is the fund.

“Google and Wikimedia each play a unique role in an internet that works for and reflects the diversity of its users,” the Wikimedia Foundation wrote in a blog post. “We look forward to continuing our work with Google in close collaboration with our communities around the world.”

In addition to the donation, Google and Wikipedia are expanding Project Tiger, an initiative to expand the content on Wikipedia into additional languages. The pilot program has already increased the amount of locally relevant content in 12 Indic languages. With the expansion, the goal is to include 10 more languages. .... " 

See also in the Wikimedia foundation:

Google and Wikimedia Foundation partner to increase knowledge equity online   By Lisa Gruwel Wikimedia Foundation.