The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, has received a $500,000 donation from philanthropists Vinod and Neeru Khosia.

Neeru is the co-founder and chair of CK12, a non-profit organization that supports the worldwide creation of "flexbooks" — collaborative open-source textbooks.

In the coming years Wikimedia shall foreground outreach projects to encourage Wikipedia content contributions from groups like academics, speakers of lesser-known languages, the elderly, and people in developing nations.

It also plans to increase the distribution of material from Wikipedia and other projects in non-web-based formats like DVDs and books.

The Wikimedia Foundation has for some time sought means to monetize its content-rich model without resorting to advertising.