Wikimedia Fundraiser
Category: Society & Culture...
Posted Sunday, August 21, 2005 at 05:08 PM [GMT-6]

The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation is Wikipedia logotrying to raise $200,000 to meet its ongoing operating needs and to fund the acquisition of new hardware to help ensure that its services are reliable and accessible.

Wikimedia is the driving force behind Wikipedia, the free, collaborative effort to capture nothing less than "the sum of all human knowledge" and place it online. It's a grand goal, and quite unattainable, of course, but the triumph is in the trying.

If you'd like to make a donation, you can do so online via PayPal; the link is on this page. You can also send them a check, or you can buy merchandise via their Cafe Press Store; $5.00 of each purchase goes to the Foundation. I've got to admit that the Wikipedia globe-puzzle is one of the best-conceived logos around.

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Wikimedia is the driving force behind Wikipedia, the free, collaborative effort to capture nothing less than "the sum of all human knowledge" and place it online.

I guess "Babelpedia" was taken?

Posted by: bryan at August 21, 2005 07:21 PM

Interesting perspective, Bryan. My initial reaction was to just dismiss it as an amusing analogy, but a bit of a stretch. But, now that I think about it, the Wikipedia project does bear some similarities to that described in the book of Genesis.

Posted by: Eric at August 21, 2005 09:37 PM
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