Wikipedia seeks support

Wikipedia is looking for financial support. And deserves it. Writes co-founder Jimmy Wales:

Wikipedia is based on a very radical idea, the realization of the dreams most of us have always had for what the Internet can and should become. Thousands of people, all over the world, from all cultures, working together in harmony to freely share clear, factual, unbiased information… a simple and pure desire to make the world a better place. ...

Thanks to the wonderful volunteers who have created and managed this vast resource, we are now one of the top 30 websites in the world… and traffic growth continues. ... In 2005, we achieved 6-fold growth in pageviews with spending of less than $750,000. ...

Taran Rampersad has some thoughts on revenue models, including this interesting idea: to show advertising only to non-registered users.