Wikipedia India Office Will Help Boost Fundraising, Founder Says
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Wikipedia opened an office in India, its first outside the U.S., to better reach the country’s 1.2 billion people after the online encyclopedia where users contribute and edit entries added readers and had its most successful fundraiser yet.
Wikipedia, created in 2001 and based in San Francisco, aims to strengthen the service in Hindi as well as more than 20 local languages in India with the office in New Delhi, the site’s co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview. The site is also considering expanding in the Middle East and North Africa to target Arabic communities.