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What if Wikipedia monetized their 16B monthly page views
- pmontra 7y agoMaybe they would go down to 16M page views per month and somebody would jump in the void they leave. Wikipedia was successful because it was (and is) free. I remember competitors with a paywall failing one after the other. Remember Microsoft Encarta? CD ROM first then the web. Retired in 2009 when Wikipedia was much smaller than now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta
- RenRav 7y agoThey could add an option to let people enable ads for themselves if they want. I wouldn't, but hey if anyone does that's their decision.
- mtmail 7y agoWikimedia's thorough discussion on the pro and cons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Funding_Wikipedia_through_advertisements#Arguments_against_adverts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Funding_Wikipedia_th...