Wikipedia is likely to carry advertisements in the nonprofit online encyclopedia website. Wikipedia with 2.5 billion page impressions per month might be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenues.


Wikipedia is likely to carry advertisements in the nonprofit online encyclopedia website. Wikipedia with 2.5 billion page impressions per month might be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenues.

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder, has told Times Online that despite widespread “resistance to the idea” of advertising on Wikipedia, “at some point questions are going to be raised over the amount of money we are turning down”. [source]

According Nielsen/Netratings Figures Wikipedia was the ninth-fastest growing site on the web in 2005. Wikipedia traffic volumes are doubling every four months. Wikipedia expects to record around 2.5 billion page impressions this month.

The site has only three full-time employees. Mr Wales, who heads the non-profit Wikimedia foundation that owns Wikipedia, does not draw a salary.

 

 

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