when wiki started

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i am just curious when and who started the idea of free knowlege sharing through wiki thats the best ever thing i ave ever seen in this commercial world, such sites dont need to be shown in advertisement and they just grew out of there to no where, but sometime earler they were out of money and asked for some donation to help them to regain thier process as they were not able to payup thier electricity bills and so on, now where they are getting these funding to operate now is it microsoft or goolge