i mean google used to be completely commercial free (i.e. not a company), and then it changed, becomes a private owned publicly traded company, got branches all over the world, but when we use its main services, like search engine, google docs, talks, translations, etc, we don't experience ads at all!
ofcoz the secret is that google post ads to all THE OTHER websites, just not on its own, lol, so yea if wikipedia tried to keep commercial out, why can't it emulate the google doctrine, and operates like google?|||It can't because it is legally prohibited from doing so. As much as "Sole Founder" and "God-King" Jimbo Wales might love to take Wikipedia "public", he is no longer in a position to do that. In June, 2003, well before it became as large and popular as it is today, Jimbo and his company Bomis (who owned the original servers) donated Wikipedia to the newly created Wikimedia Foundation ("WMF"), and presumably got an income tax deduction. Since the WMF was set up as an "educational" charity under the laws of Florida, it cannot now be sold as a "going concern" to a business corporation. In the event that the WMF is later dissolved, the physical assets (the servers, computers, office equipment, etc.) could be sold, but by law any net proceeds from such a sale would have to be donated to another charitable foundation "that is engaged in substantially similar activities". The same would apply to any money left on hand.|||What are you talking about? What do you think the "sponsored links" at the top and on the right side of the results list are? Google has ads on every single one of their services, you just don't notice them because they're subtle.
And Wikipedia won't go private because it's an open-source collaboration, unlike Google, which has always been run entirely by private individuals. Also, Wikipedia doesn't have ads, only when they're having a fundraising drive. Like any public TV or radio station, Wikipedia is supported by users like you.
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