"Ben Emmel" wrote
In an interview, Jimbo discusses the possibilities of ads eventually on the
Wikipedia, due to the huge number of page views that we get.
That is in the WP FAQ (or would be if we had one), like 'stable versions'. An old chestnut. It would all depend anyway on (a) the plateau level of traffic (relative to all WWW traffic, say), (b) the plateau level of donation and grant funding, (c) what the money was supposed to fund, (d) the probable impact of ads on (b).
Charles