genigeniice@gmail.com wrote:
Nope. Many charities of various sizes rely on year to year donations. Financial self-sufficiency is mostly limited to various internet projects that manage to replace donations with ads and merchandise.
Keep in mind Geni, that Wikipedia is not so much an "internet project" as it is an encyclopedia - the most important general information resource on the planet - if not yet the most accurate and substantive.
The internet is just the recently-developed efficient content delivery system - just as the wiki software is just an interface to manage the databased content. The project transcends both wiki and internet - which are just the tools that make it work.
- Stevertigo