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<\/a><\/div><\/div> Wikipedia is leveraged throughout Google\u2019s products from Knowledge Graph panels in Search to Assistant results on Google Home and other devices. Google.org today announced<\/a> a $2 million donation to the Wikimedia Endowment, as well as making Cloud services and tools available free of charge to the site. <\/p>\n\n\n The two organizations share the goal of expanding access to knowledge around the globe. For Google, this is centered around its Next Billion Users<\/a>\n initiative to make products optimized for specific markets and\nconditions, like limited data usage. Another barrier is language, with\nWikipedia this month integrating Google Translate<\/a> into its article translation tool for editors.<\/p>\n\n\n Google made the Translate API free of charge for Wikipedia, with\nother projects designed to add more native language content in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n We will expand these programs with Wikimedia affiliates\nand volunteers to provide editors with resources and insights to drive\nthe creation of new Wikipedia articles across 10 languages in India,\nIndonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and the Middle East and North Africa region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n Wikipedia is also using Google Cloud Custom Search API to help\neditors \u201censure contributions are appropriately cited from sources\u201d and\nthe Cloud Vision API to digitize Indic language public domain books to\nmake more diverse, reputable available sources for citation. Both tools\nare also available to Wikipedia at no cost.<\/p>\n\n\n Meanwhile, Google\u2019s philanthropy arm is donating $2 million to the\nWikimedia Endowment in order to fund long-term sustainability. In the\npast, Googlers have taken to individually donating to the Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n This brings our total support to more than $7.5 million,\nwhich includes an additional $1.1 million to the Wikimedia Foundation\nannual fund during a special campaign last year where Google employees\nhelped decide where to direct Google\u2019s donation dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n This renewed relationship as of late comes as Wikipedia last year was not given a heads-up<\/a> about YouTube using the service to fact check videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n Credit: 9to5Google<\/a><\/p>\n