John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Alberto Ibargüen , President and CEO of the Knight Foundation (2011)

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in December 1950 from the "Knight Memorial Education Fund" which is committed to quality journalism, media innovation, social responsibility and the arts with the aim of strengthening democracy.

In 2018, the foundation donated US $ 105 million.

In 2015, an agreement was signed with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) to set up an internet search engine (project name “Knowledge Engine”), which led to a controversy, especially among the volunteer authors of Wikipedia, and as a trigger for the resignation of the WMF director Lila Tretikov is viewed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.knightfoundation.org/programs
  2. ↑ Financial Information. Retrieved December 18, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ File: Knowledge engine grant agreement.pdf. (PDF) In: wikimediafoundation.org. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ 11 Feb 2016 at 13:40, rew Orlowski tweet_btn (): Move over, Google. Here's Wikipedia's search engine - full of on-demand smut. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Everything you need to know about Wikimedia's 'Knowledge Engine' so far | Search Engine Watch. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Knowledge Engine: Whirl around alleged Wikipedia competition to Google - Golem.de . ( golem.de [accessed on January 13, 2017]).
  7. ↑ 12 Feb 2016 at 4:58 pm, rew Orlowski tweet_btn (): Reluctant Wikipedia lifts lid on $ 2.5m internet search engine project. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  8. ^ Search and Destroy: The Knowledge Engine and the Undoing of Lila Tretikov The Wikipedian. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .

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