[Catherine]

Wikipedia will be working in future also. This has been announced by the Wikimedia Foundation on Friday. $6.2 million was raised by the Wikimedia foundation for Wikipedia. This target was achieved with the help of over 125,000 donors from around the world. The Money will be used to maintain and develop Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation wrote "This campaign has proven that Wikipedia matters to its users, and that our users strongly support our mission: to bring free knowledge to the planet, free of charge and free of advertising". This was written in a thank you letter which was posted on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation's Web site.

Wales published a personal appeal on the foundation's site to increase funding and as a result, In the eight days trailing that message, more than 50,000 contributions flooded in, totaling $2 million and closing the gap toward the goal.

I hope Wikipedia keeps on working for ages and keeps on sharing knowledge with people.