Wikipedia is running out of cash
Curse of the Everywhere Girl strikes
By Nick Farrell: Sunday 11 February 2007, 23:09
ONLINE encyclopaedia Wikipedia might have to close because it only
has enough funding for another four months. 
Florence Devouard, chairwoman of the Wikimedia Foundation, told the
Lift07 conference that the outfit might join the Everywhere Girl
and disappear from the Interweb.
Wikipedia normally raises a $1 million a year, this year it has
raised $1.1 million. But it claims that it needs $5 million a year
to sustain operations.
Reflecting the consistency of that organ of knowledge, it seems
that Devouard's comments have been hastily deleted and replaced by
another spokesWikipedia denying that it was true.
Sandy Ordonez claimed that Devouard's comment was taken out of
context and Wikipedia will not be closing any time soon.
She claimed that Devouard was simply referring to the ongoing,
pressing needs for funds that Wikipedia, like most nonprofit
organisations, face.
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