Toby Bartels wrote:
I interpreted that page as very old, only historical.
*Very* historical. I'm now of the opinion that advertising is not
likely to ever be a viable or sensible revenue source for wikipedia.
One frame of reference -- at the time that was written, I was paying
$100k a year for ongoing expenses (programming, editor-in-chiefing,
etc.) for Nupedia. Wikipedia has no similar expenses.
Bandwidth and hardware are cheap, and so we have no particular need of
money for what we're doing right now.
--Jimbo