Comment Re:Yo, Jimmy, I've got an idea: (Score 1) 608
Wikipedia is not collecting money for Wikipedia. Wikipedia has enough money. Wikimedia is collecting money to build up Wikipedia's sister projects...
"It's absolutely not clear to me (and I don't think anyone) that a focused investment in, say, textbook development is actually going to result in predictable payoff in a transformatively larger number of sustainable content contributors. That doesn't mean that there isn't a potential for such an investment to be successful, and it doesn't mean that it's not a risk worth taking." -- Erik Moeller, Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061608.html