Wikipedia survey reveals Indians are most willing to donate

This one's going to make all Indians sit up straight and smile, and rightly so. Popular, free web-based encyclopedia recently concluded their successful, annual fund raising program, and to know their donor base better, conducted a readers survey. In an official blog post on Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia results picked from a sample of their reader population has been posted and it has thrown up some eye-opening results. The survey touched several fine aspects of their reader behaviour, and have in the process given them an insight. When asked, if they knew about the non-profit status of Wikipedia - only respondents from Egypt and India replied in the affirmative, with 70 and 61 percent of readers, respectively. On an average, the post stated that 47 percent of their readers did not know about Wiki's non-profit status, and Russia seemed to top this list, with some 64 percent readers being unaware, followed by Brazil (56 percent) and the United States (56 percent).

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