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Who started wikipedia? Does he/do they own it? Does wikipedia get money similar to google and if it does, how?



Answers:    Wikipedia was started contained by 2001 by Jimmy Wales, along with Larry Sanger. The Wikimedia Foundation be established in 2003 to run the project, as a non-profit operation.

No one owns Wikipedia, but instead as a non-profit, the project relies on fundraising to support the website. The Wikipedia content itself is licensed under the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License) license, which technique the content is free for people to whip and reuse under indistinguishable terms.

Jimmy Wales be originally the chair of the Wikimedia Foundation board, but stepped down within October 2006. The current chair is Florence Devouard, and the Executive Director is Sue Gardner.
How ironic is this answer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Ya. Wikipedia does get hold of money from people who buy gear and donate money.
Jimmy Wales, the creator, is rich presently
wikipedia is another and very powerful turn upside down engine
i saw it for the first time in 2003
populace donate money to wikipedia and thus it earns money
Wikipedia be made in '01 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Don't know if he owns it, but he works terrifically hard on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is pretty serious almost it's stuff. It's an organization where on earth there are skilled folks who have job on the website, either to keep up it or be a treasurer, etc.

Editors on Wikipedia are people who merely help the website, and it's content, since the website manager can't do everything. Well, actually, Wikipedia is adjectives about everyone helping the website out by giving it content and adjectives information.

Wikipedia makes money by populace donating money to the Wikimedia Foundation. The money is spent on improving Wikipedia, and possibly some of Wikipedia's sister websites.

Also, they sell merchandise which go to Wikimedia as well.
No. It's remunerated for buy donations. If you want to find out who started it, just google 'wikipedia'.