How Wikipedia Earns with its Business Model.
                     How Wikipedia 
Earns with its 
Business Model
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What is Wikipedia?
• Wikipedia is probably the biggest site on the planet, pulling in a huge number of novel 
guests every month and including several articles day by day. 
• It's additionally known for being a non-benefit association; the organizers of the 
Wikimedia venture settled on an express choice to make all substance allowed to 
access and liberated from promotions 
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Wikipedia Business Model 
• Volunteers from over the world contribute and alter the substance utilizing trustable 
sources in the Wikipedia site. 
• This makes the Wikipedia Business Model of action genuinely straightforward where the 
association just spotlights on taking care of the site, servers, and organization, and the 
primary substance is contributed by the volunteers for nothing.
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Fact 1
• During the 2014–2015 financial year, in excess of 4 million benefactors gave 
$75 million USD to help Wikipedia through the Wikimedia Foundation. 
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Fact 2
• Today the establishment is a totally different mammoth. It's money rich - with 
a headcount of 119, 53 percent higher than 2010/11, and brought nearly 
$35m up in the last gifts advance. 
• The planner of the most recent exceptionally forceful subsidizing drive is Sue 
Gardner, official chief of the WMF. 
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Fact 3
• Some other subsidizing is exceptionally sketchy. Wikimedia Germany affirmed a 
€18,000 assignment called "Festivalsommer 2013" to send Wikimedians to pop shows 
in Germany as "authorize picture takers". 
• Decent work on the off chance that you can get it. The financial backing incorporates 
travel to and from the gigs for the sprouting snappers. 
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Fact 4
• A bigger distribution of €81,000 will go to Wikimedians to photo legislators. 
• An award of €81,720 will pay a specialist to consider altering. It's each of the, 
a distinct difference to the unpaid volunteer ethos. 
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Fact 5
• On Wikipedia own gifts page we learn of a moving story of a student in 
Agnam-Goly, a Sahelian town in north-eastern Senegal with a populace of 
3,143 occupants, who communicates how he'd love to offer cash to the 
establishment. 
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Fact 6
• The Wikipedia Foundation has one other wellspring of income past gifts: 
merchandise sold on the Wikipedia store. 
• A portion of the things available to be purchased incorporate shirts for $21, 
journals for $8, pencils for $10, and pins for $3.
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User Traffic
• More is the web-traffic; more is the earning for Wikipedia, by the platform 
owners.
• Since, Wikipedia is the biggest encyclopedia, on the internet, there is a no 
doubt that the users of Wikipedia is 27million. 
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Thank You!!!
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