Reference.com Adds Searchable Wikipedia Content

Posted on October 18, 2005

Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, the publisher of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, announced that its Reference.com website now offers searchable content from Wikipedia. This service is integrated with the company's other websites, Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.

Lexico Publishing Group also announced that it has donated $10,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates and maintains Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public donations and support to meet its goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world.


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