Wikipedia At Risk From Financial Meltdown?

Apr 26, 2009, 18:02 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Michael Hickins)

"It's worth noting that more than a quarter -- 28 percent, in fact -- of Wikipedia's funding comes from the Sloan Foundation.

"PBS FRONTLINE's Digital Nation documentary and Web site is funded by non-profit foundations including The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Park Foundation and the Verizon Foundation. What would happen to that Web-based programming if either of those foundations lost buckets of cash through bad luck or fraud?"

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