Google has opened up and doing its charity wallet once again. This time, the search giant has donated $2 Million to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs and maintains Wikipedia.

The donation, in true social media fashion, was announced via tweets from Wikimedia Foundation advisory board member Mitch Kapor and Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales. Neither Wikimedia Foundation nor Google the have made an official announcement yet - it's supposed to come tomorrow.

The donation's absolutely in line with Google's generosity to foundations that promote a faster and more open web. However, we think it's very interesting that Google is giving money to the Wikimedia Foundation now, only a year and a half after the search giant launched its own Wikipedia killer, Google Knol.

Back then, we said it was doomed to fail, and so far Knol's stagnation has proven us correct. Is this a sign that Google's abandoned the project and is embracing Wikipedia as the web's center for knowledge? Hopefully we'll get a few answers tomorrow.

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