As people were searching for reliable information on what was happening, more and more of them ended up on the website. Up until that point though, the site was primarily being accessed via its dot-com domain. To his detriment or maybe luck , the community severely rejected that idea. Luckily, Wales had the necessary foresight when he started Wikipedia to also acquire the dot-org domain version. Therefore, in June , he set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that would manage Wikipedia and all subsequently launched assets.
Wales, furthermore, became the de-facto spokesperson for the foundation. In July , he held a TED talk about the birth and rise of Wikipedia, propelling him to be known around the world. That same year, American comedian Stephen Colbert invited Wales onto his late-night show The Colbert Report, inviting his viewers to add incorrect information to some of its articles. One of the main reasons why Wikipedia continued to spread like a wildfire was its relationship with search engines. It, therefore, became somewhat of a surprise when Google, in December , announced that it would launch a competing service named Knol.
The tool, which eventually launched in July , would allow experts to submit content on topics they are knowledgeable about. Petersburg in Florida to San Francisco. At the same time, Wales stepped down from the helm of the foundation and was ultimately replaced by Canadian journalist Sue Gardner. Wales, who was still married at the time, was furthermore engaged in an affair with Canadian TV pundit Rachel Marsden.
To be able to reach this goal, Wikipedia put up huge banners with Wales prompting donors to contribute — which many media outlets found to be quite intrusive. The Wikimedia Foundation eventually began using its reach to launch ancillary projects.
For instance, in January , it released Wikivoyage, a crowdsourced website that gives detailed information on various travel destinations. The foundation, furthermore, launched so-called edit-a-thons, which invited editors, particularly females, to get together and edit pages over a certain time frame.
While its editor base had grown exponentially up until , it remained stuck around , from then onwards. Additionally, 80 percent of Wikipedia editors are males a problem that exists to this date.
Hence, many of its edit-a-thons were specifically created for women to create and edit female-related pages. In June , Sue Gardner stepped down from her role as executive director of the foundation. Her replacement became Lila Tretikov, a former software engineer and product manager at various Valley-based tech companies.
By the end of , Wikipedia reached the inaugural mark of five million published English articles. Interestingly enough, Swedish was the second most-published language with close to two million articles. More and more people from developing countries were beginning to come online, yet they oftentimes only have phones to access the internet.
As a result, the foundation had launched Wikipedia Zero in , convincing mobile network operators to waive data charges whenever people accessed a Wikimedia property. While the service was eventually discontinued in , the foundation claimed it had been successful in helping people to access Wikipedia content.
In May , Turkish authorities blocked access to the site. The ban lasted for more than 2. In January , the Constitutional Court of Turkey said that the ban was unconstitutional. Meanwhile, Wikipedia has already been blocked in China for extended amounts of time. Did we miss something? Come on! Tell us what you think about our article on how does Wikipedia make money?
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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Good one, rightnow wikipedia is asking for donations, before giving any money I just wanted to know is there actual a need,what are there source of income etc.
Thanks for your article. Why would its expenses grow linearly so much along with its revenue when its volunteers are creating and editing all material?
Good point. Contents show. We strive to make sure fundraising campaigns are as short as possible, and that people who have already contributed are not asked again," Samantha Lien, as a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson, told me. We also share our approach each year with readers and editors online to get their input before launching a campaign. This helps us ensure that our efforts are aligned with our values as a movement.
The Wikipedia Foundation does have one other source of revenue beyond donations: goods sold on the Wikipedia store. These proceeds are then earmarked for our Merchandise Giveaways Program to send Wikipedia merchandise to editors around the world who contribute to the Wikimedia projects," Lien said.
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