--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com wrote:
A conservative estimate (in my experience, which is valid I think) of how much revenue we could generate with Google Adwords or similar, i.e. no banners, no flashing lights, no popups, would be around $1 per thousand. So a billion pageviews a month generates at least $1 million per month. Even with the ability for people who hate ads to opt-out with a single click, the revenue would be substantial.
That, or if 120,000 people donate $100 per year.
I suggest the latter would be easier to achieve.
By the way, has anyone done any car/window stickers for wikipedia? Donate $10, get a sticker. Put it on your car or bathroom window, give it to a friend, whatever.
in the same vein, would it be possible to have publishing on demand? The way I see it is this: I want to make a booklet with anything in the airline/airplane category. Can I pay $12.95 and have a TeX formatted PDF report mailed to my house with the 60-90+articles related to that? (I just know the technical know-how to do that is to be found here. But it could be outsourced)
I think that would be cool and would allow for a greated dissemination of the Wikipedia brand. And perhaps the National Georgraphic-type ads could go in that. After reading a re-reading, I could leave it in a strategic place for passerbys to see/pickup.
Just putting the idea out there.
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