Wikipedia reaches $6,200,000 fundraising goal
As we all know Wikipedia is a completely free resource and contains no advertising or paid content whatsoever. This has been the goal of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. So how do they survive? Well they have a fund raising event each year where they set a target and you can donate toi the appeal. This years target was $6.2 Million.
They achieved it! All the donations came from users of Wikipedia. I think this an awesome way to get funding, not only do the users not get ad’s thrown at them but if they want to they can donate to the cause. You would have thought turning on advertising would bring in more than that amount. being one of the most popular destinations on the Internet. But that defeats the object of the great community that surrounds Wikipedia.
Source: ReadWriteWeb
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