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Conservapedia talk:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia (view source)
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==Wikipedia million dollar investments==
==Wikipedia million dollar investments==
What's the source of the idea that Wikipedia attracts million dollar investments? [[User:Daphnea|Daphnea]] 13:20, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
What's the source of the idea that Wikipedia attracts million dollar investments? [[User:Daphnea|Daphnea]] 13:20, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
: none -- a lot of the stuff on this encyclopedia are unsourced claims made to attack wikipedia
:: Not investments in the traditional sense, because Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is a not-for-profit. The Foundation receives donations and grants. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Foundation Sloan Foundation] in March 2008 granted $1 million to WMF for the current financial year and pledged a further $2m over the following two years.
:: But the text on this page reads:
::: ''Wikipedia, while relying on volunteers, uses its traffic to attract million-dollar investments in money-making projects, such as building a search engine.''
:: This is confusing the Wikimedia Foundation, set up by Jimmy Wales,with Wikia, a for-profit set up by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley and incorporated in Delaware. It's a wiki-farm, mainly funded by advertising but I understand that it has also received capital from other companies for some of its project. --[[User:TonySidaway|TonySidaway]] 15:00, 11 February 2009 (EST)
==Original research==
==Original research==