I just saw this Washington Post article about how Wikipedia is trying to raise $6 million dollars this year to cover operating costs for its nonprofit website.
I’m reading a book called Wikinomics right now about how there’s a new economy coming out because of massive cross collaboration, but if Wikipedia, the poster child of the book, needs to beg people for money, I don’t see how this new economic model is going to survive.
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Maybe they are trying to prove it through the collaboration that random people can have donating to something like wiki? I donated…
Good point, Zach. Actually, throughout my analysis, I forgot a critical fact: Wikipedia is a non-profit endeavor. Their requests for funds is like any other non-profit. They make their money by asking people to donate.
By the way, this site runs on WordPress, which is also open source software.