How much does Wikipedia make from donations?

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asked Oct 15, 2019 in Internet by georgewarren (670 points)
How much does Wikipedia make from donations?

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answered Oct 15, 2019 by Minty (132,850 points)
Wikipedia.org is a great website and I love to view it myself as a good online encyclopedia and to source information.

And I have donated some money to Wikipedia.org in the past but from what I've read online before Wikipedia.org has millions of dollars in the bank right now.

Wikipedia.org could likely thrive for many years even without a single donation for awhile.

But people will continue to donate money to Wikipedia.org and that's okay as well as it ensures the website will be online and running many years.

I really hope Wikipedia.org is online for another 40 years or more and I hope this website is online for over 40 years by the time I hit retirement.

I would really be on this website more often in my retirement.

If this website answerpail.com needed donations to survive I would donate money to it as well because I've gotten some good information from it.

Just like Wikipedia.org I've gotten information from that website as well when doing research and have learned a lot.

It's estimated that it takes $25 million dollars a year to run and usually Wikipedia.org gets more than that in donations each year.

But there's no way to know for sure unless you could see the actual donations and the actual money in the bank from the Wikipedia.org donations.

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