who owns wikipedia and how do they make money?

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  1. #1
    I was just wondering how wikipedia generates revenue if they are a non profit organisation, and who pays for all the bandwidth?

    thanks for any info...........
     
    Solicitors Mortgages, Aug 19, 2007 IP
  2. Zoomone

    Zoomone Guest

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    They have teamed up with yahoo and yahoo provides them bandwidth , they make no revenue. they do get donations but they spend it on their servers and maintainance. for more info on them check this out - wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia:About
     
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  3. eddy2099

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  4. movidalatina

    movidalatina Well-Known Member

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    Wikipedia seems to be one of those business models
    that just wants traffic and eventually will pitch the
    whole thing to Yahoo or Google for millions.
     
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  5. live-cms_com

    live-cms_com Notable Member

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    #5
    More than millions, I think. ;)
     
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    rldowling03 Notable Member

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    #6
    yeah, wikipedia is worth a hell of a lot,
     
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  7. mate_pl

    mate_pl Active Member

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    IMO, they are already worth almost as much as google... Just waiting for first ads to show on wiki...
     
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  8. Cypherus

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    The wikipedia people are building a search engine, so I guess thats where they'll be making their money..
     
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  9. webw

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    Through this page you can make donations:

    http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising
     
    webw, Aug 19, 2007 IP
  10. alexts

    alexts Well-Known Member

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    #10
    WIKIPEDIA is non profit I believe.
     
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  11. Sohan

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    #11
    Yep, wikipedia is non-profit.

    They might be getting goverment grants and funding.

    They don't make money, and stay alive with donations.
     
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  12. populartemplate

    populartemplate Banned

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    #12
    If wiki would start monetizing their site..they would easily cash in over 25k a day.
     
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    KingofKings Banned

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    #13
    I think that is what's going to happen, when wiki starts making money things will get ugly. :cool:
     
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  14. Cypherus

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    #14
    Like I said, the people behind Wikipedia is soon launching Wikia. This search engine will of course be well integrated to Wikipedia, and trought that they will probally make tons of money.
     
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  15. geni

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    Doubful. Wikia is not run by the wikimedia foundation.
     
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  16. Cypherus

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    #16
    Oh, just wait and see..
     
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  17. sideline

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    #17
    My guess: 75.000 $ a day. And this is just an estimate calculated on what news sites earn per cpm... They generate 50 million pageviews per day I thought... let's say 15$ per 10.000 pageviews and that gives you that number.

    Not bad hey for a site :))))
     
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    matt608@ Well-Known Member

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    I reckon they will either be bought by Google before the next dot com crash, or go down with it.
     
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    Why would they "go down with it"?

    Wikipedia isn't a public company - not even a company...
     
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  20. Napoleon

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    [​IMG] Billions.
     
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