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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.
As of November 12, 2002, Wikipedia is officially FOR SALE! That's right! All 6,948,855 articles on English Wikipedia (including this one ) could be yours to do with as you please.
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A note on the separate status of the Wikimedia Endowment. The Wikimedia Endowment, held from 2016 to 2023 by the Tides Foundation and now a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is not and has never been included in Wikimedia Foundation assets, even though Wikimedia Foundation fundraising staff solicit donations to the Endowment and the Wikimedia Foundation itself made donations to the Endowment.
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.
By looking "at what other sites that get similar traffic are worth, how much people would be willing to pay for Wikipedia if it weren’t free, and how much it would cost to replace the site", the researchers determined that Wikipedia is worth "tens of billions of dollars" while having a replacement cost of a bargain $6.6 billion.
This was part of a larger grant, much of which went to Wikimedia Germany, which took on ownership of the development effort. [138] Between 2014 and 2015, the foundation received $500,000 from the Monarch Fund, $100,000 from the Arcadia Fund and an undisclosed amount from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to support the Wikipedia Zero initiative.
Wikipedia can include what third-party secondary sources report, in accordance with due weight.Most prices come from either self-published sources or from directories or databases, and by Wikipedia policy, that is a reason to not include prices.