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Google co-founder Sergey Brin and wife Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of 23andme, have donated $500,000 to The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that funds Wikipedia. The donation comes at the start of Wikipedia's annual fundraising drive that the site depends on to fund operations.