who owns wikipedia and how do they make money?

I would guess they could make at least six figures a day if properly monetized. They have huge amounts of traffic, and most of their topics rank in the top 5 results in Google for that specific keyword. They are a non-profit, which makes selling their assets (such as the site itself) a very tricky situation. The founders do have other projects with lots of interest from venture capitalists, so I'm sure they're not starving.

 

I was once told they were originally formed as a tax shelter for someone, I forget who though. (thats probably totally false just rumors) Pretty profit potential tax shelter though

 

Wikipedia is a great website however it has the worst bloody search in the world. Like hell, get a bloody spell checker.
Otherwise just grand.
And it's gonna sell for a lot if they ever do.
250 Posts, now I'm a Raider .

 

What i like about them is the way they link articles together - you never finish reading

 

Hah ever try to get to the end? Try clicking on the first link of each article until you click on one and you end up going in a circle. It does happen.