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Wikipedia is not for sale. Wikipedia is a non-commercial website run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in San Francisco. We are not looking to be acquired by the highest bidder. Our mission is to create a free online encyclopedia that anyone can access and contribute to.
In partnership with PediaPress, Wikipedia enables readers of its online encyclopedia to create collections of Wikipedia articles and to order these directly as high-quality print-to-order books. 10% of the gross sales cost from books sold in this way go to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Q: Obtaining half of $87,636,288,695,657,583.93 in cash is physically impossible! Is there any other way I can pay? A: If you run into issues acquiring the amount of cash necessary to buy Wikipedia, an exchange rate of 2.3554 3 United States Dollars (USD) to 1, 1 ⁄ 4 lb (0.11 kg) cheeseburger will be accepted in order to complete the transaction.
[237] [238] Over 60 publishers have partnered with The Wikipedia Library to provide access to their resources: when ICE Publishing joined in 2020, a spokesman said "By enabling free access to our content for Wikipedia editors, we hope to further the research community's resources – creating and updating Wikipedia entries on civil engineering ...
As of November 12, 2002, Wikipedia is officially FOR SALE! That's right! All 6,940,276 articles on English Wikipedia (including this one ) could be yours to do with as you please.
Companies like the now-former Wiki-PR, which was involved in a paid advocacy scandal that encompassed hundreds to thousands of Wikipedia accounts and pages, will pay for articles about specific individuals and entities. Others ask to add links to drive traffic to other websites, and yet others are jobs to remove negative content.
There are Wikipedia articles, lists, and categories which provide information on other websites: Comparison of wiki farms – non-comprehensive because of Wikipedia's notability policies. A more comprehensive comparison of wiki farms can be found at mw:Hosting services. List of wikis; Category:Wikis; Category:Wiki communities