Wikipedia ?? How do they make money

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    How do Wikipedia make money?
     
    Pastorsinlot, Jun 21, 2007 IP
  2. olddocks

    olddocks Notable Member

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    Wonderful site with plenty of useful content! As long as you have excellent content, money can be made in different ways like donations, advertising and perhaps money sponsored from VCs.
     
    olddocks, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    gr8liverpoolfan Notable Member

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    Donations. The site has benefited many people, and people will always give money for a worthy cause.
     
    gr8liverpoolfan, Jun 21, 2007 IP
  4. 8everything

    8everything Peon

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    They did have a donation campaign a while ago :eek: I was watching it grow.. and it grew really fast each hour... so yes, lots of people who be more than happy to contribute monetary funds to Wikipedia.
     
    8everything, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    As mentioned, they make money through donations.
     
    drig, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    Hmm I am sure that there is some hidden advertizing going on somewhere there
     
    stratz, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    Donation is way of Wikipedia survival. In fact, it starts to face financial problems if it does not have more income from other ways.
     
    rima112, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    Winagain Well-Known Member

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    they just use donations.
    why don't they use adsense on the site and make a ton of money is beyond me :p
     
    Winagain, Jun 21, 2007 IP
  9. Pastorsinlot

    Pastorsinlot Well-Known Member

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    Thanks so much
     
    Pastorsinlot, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    b@bu Banned

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    #10
    adsense ads :p
    its .org so no money to make
     
    b@bu, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    nshadab Well-Known Member

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    Wikipedia a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity: The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing.

    they only work with donations, dont have any adsense there, not any hidden advertisment policy. they make enough with donations.
     
    nshadab, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    b@bu Banned

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    even i think all donations :p
     
    b@bu, Jun 21, 2007 IP
  13. Philvault

    Philvault Active Member

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    let say contributing $1 from 7 million visitors... that should be enough
     
    Philvault, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    b@bu Banned

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    man that'll be more than enough
     
    b@bu, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    yogesh sarkar Well-Known Member

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    They make more than enough money from donation; I guess the figure is some where given on the Wikipedia.
     
    yogesh sarkar, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    They should put adsense just for a day then :)
     
    logikcoder, Jun 22, 2007 IP
  17. yogesh sarkar

    yogesh sarkar Well-Known Member

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    Donation is more than enough for them to survive another 10 years..
     
    awiekupo, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    I don't get why they don't put adsense on. :confused:
     
    konrad, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    They are a not-for-profit and will be for a long time. That definitely helps in them keeping such a devoted community of volunteers.
     
    Conkster, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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