Wikipedia
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ChickenSoup
Banned
donations. Have you ever seen those ads across the top that say
"your donations keep wikipedia running!"?
"your donations keep wikipedia running!"?
Nope! I don't ever look at ads. And who would donate? I see 'donate' here, but I think the only place I'd ever donate to would be a church place, like CGA or a charity.
ajmucha
New Member
I would think that there are companies that dnonate to have advertising and links to their products sites..like wal-mart or something like that
dorkelf
Active Member
Its a very interesting question! I have no idea, beyond website and other donations, how they make money, and I can't find that information on their website. Wikipedia is a non-profit, so they don't need to make a lot of money for stockholders or anything. In fact, they really only have to worry about their overhead and paying the following people:
"...five paid employees (two programmers, an administrator, a fundraiser and an executive director), three technical contractors (software and network management), an Advisory Board of around 15 expert individuals, and a Board of Trustees."
As a non-profit, people can donate to them and take a tax deduction for doing so, I believe. So maybe there are simply enough people and corporations out there doing that, or maybe there is some other way they're making money. Who knows.
Paul
"...five paid employees (two programmers, an administrator, a fundraiser and an executive director), three technical contractors (software and network management), an Advisory Board of around 15 expert individuals, and a Board of Trustees."
As a non-profit, people can donate to them and take a tax deduction for doing so, I believe. So maybe there are simply enough people and corporations out there doing that, or maybe there is some other way they're making money. Who knows.
Paul
Maybe if we figure out how they bring in money to cover expenses, we can do something similar.
/muse
/muse
its prob run by someone like bill gates who has 50 billion $ and can afford to pay a few employees and for a webpage w/o worrying much.
it does say wikipedia is kept running by your donations, but are they gonna say "Wikipedia is kept running by ???, you donations help but there rather useless, but keep sending money anyway if you want"
it does say wikipedia is kept running by your donations, but are they gonna say "Wikipedia is kept running by ???, you donations help but there rather useless, but keep sending money anyway if you want"
Above information source
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/About_Wikimedia#Where_does_the_money_come_from.3F
This article explains their finances.
http://searchmarketinggurus.com/search_marketing_gurus/2007/02/could_wikipedia.html
This page lists their donators.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors
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No -- you'd never be able to access a page.
Durruck
Pirate!
You'd also have to activate the page to prove that you have valid access... then it would ask you to update the process that proves your account 4 times (all while providing spyware protection that is severely out of date)
Then it shuts off, claiming your browser encountered a fatal error because it doesn't think you should be allowed to run media player.
Yeh.
Then it shuts off, claiming your browser encountered a fatal error because it doesn't think you should be allowed to run media player.
Yeh.
somebody doesnt like windows?
Durruck
Pirate!
Oh, I run windows, but I just hate all the hoops you have to jump through. When I was setting up the network at work, it was a royal pain, especially trying to integrate Win98, ME, XP Home, and XP Pro all into a business network (I didn't get the chose the machines, I was just tasked with putting together what we already had). Having a bulk of extra CALs and still having a machine come back and say that you've installed an illegal copy of windows is a real fun time.
Having the XP Pro SP2 discs...you'd think that I could just install straight from those when a machine needed reformatted...but no, I was given the update disc...so I had to install XP Pro, then install SP2, then start the 6 hours update process thru Microsoft Update. Then put the machine on th network and start installing our company's software. And no, our company would never buy the same machine twice (nor more than 3 at a time) so imaging the drive wasn't worth it.
Having the XP Pro SP2 discs...you'd think that I could just install straight from those when a machine needed reformatted...but no, I was given the update disc...so I had to install XP Pro, then install SP2, then start the 6 hours update process thru Microsoft Update. Then put the machine on th network and start installing our company's software. And no, our company would never buy the same machine twice (nor more than 3 at a time) so imaging the drive wasn't worth it.