2008/5/8 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
(Beyond just measuring the income, the anon notices can be expected to have other important positive results that are harder to measure... like increasing public awareness that Wikipedia is run by a charity, etc)
This is actually very important - that's why the copyright notice at the bottom of every page on en:wp just happens to detail precisely what Wikimedia Foundation is (at the suggestion of the comcom). That all the wikilinks in that notice don't end up topping the wikicharts suggests hardly anyone gets that far down the page ...
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