Random Recordings of Mental Meanderings

I always wondered how Wikipedia supported itself. Now I know: Fund drives. It only makes sense that a free service like this would rely on donations to stay alive. I’m just flummoxed at the amount of money required to run everything: over a million dollars a year? But then again, they do have a lot of things going on:

• Wikipedia Free encyclopedia
• Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals
• Wikiquote Collection of quotations
• Wikisource Free source documents
• Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus
• Wikinews Free content news source
• Commons Shared media repository
• Wikispecies Directory of species

They also have a proposal for a Wikiversity, a free University. That would be interesting.

I’m sure the servers necessary for everything cost more than just a little. And then there’s running the foundation, doing all the coding. I wonder how many people work there? I wonder how I could get a job like that? I don’t know that I could do that, though. Taking care of my own little corner of the web, and my family’s website is more than enough for me to handle.