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A person editing with an account is not treated as doing so on behalf of another body or person. (Exceptions are exceedingly rare and require approval.) Examples: Names promoting a business, group, activist stance, or organization; Offensive or disruptive: User names are used to simply identify users uniquely.
Wikipedia is funded primarily by donations and grants. It does not charge for access nor offer any paid subscription services. If you're looking to acquire a profitable company to diversify your business portfolio, or if you're thinking of trying to save an indebted company from bankruptcy, Wikipedia isn't it. See Wikipedia:Fundraising statistics.
A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. [1] The term for this type of alternative name is fictitious business name. [1] Registering the fictitious name with a relevant government body is often required.
The Foundation filed an application to trademark the name Wikipedia in the US to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences on September 14, 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded also by Japan on December 16, 2004, and by the European Union on January 20, 2005. Subsets of ...
Names should not be on Wikipedia, not because of any notability concerns but because they are dict. defs. I have no problems with pages such as List of Hebrew names and List of Arabic names and think non disambig articles on names should be redirected to these list pages. If more space is needed for origins and meaning a link should be provided ...
The different treatment you desire would not be worth the donation. The editors you are talking to are not likely to want a Wikipedia stripped of proper editorial review or to be a more promotional site. A Wikipedia that was friendly to promotional edits would have access to far more money than whatever you are claiming you would have donated.
Wikimedia Foundation director Katherine Maher has called on commercial organizations to develop Wikipedia and the shared commons to match their use of it. [16] [17] [18]On March 16, 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, a commercial product designed to sell and deliver Wikipedia's content directly to Big Tech companies. [19]
Wikipedia and its fellow sites are hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in the United States. Sites like Google or Yahoo are hosted on thousands of servers, with thousands of employees; we have around 800 servers and around 350 staff, and cover our costs through donations—almost all from members of the public.