The Wikimedia Foundation in recent times completed an enormous fundraising drive and managed to elevate some $16 million in donations from over 500,000 customers of Wikipedia globally.
Wikipedia has a long-standing no-ad policy as well as revenue raised by way of these donations would help the Wikimedia Basis purchase all their staff and costs and nevertheless stay ad-free for all of 2011.
Like most other non-profits,
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When TIME Magazine asked this actual question to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales,
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When we’ve consistently mentioned that we’re opposed to owning marketing on Wikipedia, we’ve never ever explained “absolutely under no circumstances.” In line with Wales,
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Here’s the total TIME interview with Jimmy Wales:
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