[WikiEN-l] Re: Google ads

Thu Jul 15 16:02:28 UTC 2004

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:36:20 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Mahan
<chris_mahan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> 
> > First, our growth has to level off at some point.  Has to, dammit!
> > :-)
> > Maybe we're already maxed out; there's not really any way to know.
> 
> I doubt we're anywhere close to maxing out.
> 
> I can see 500 million hits per day (15 billion hits per month) by
> year's end (especially just leading to and around the elections).
> That would put us squarely in the top 10 on the internet.
> 
> Of course, now may be the time to talk to IBM about those mainframe
> donations.
Is there any further info on that? Has any "official" discussion taken
place between wikimedia and IBM/Apple/Sun/Whoever about something like
that? I bet some of them would love to pay for something like that for
a bit of karma boost
> 
> The W has achieved enormous press coverage in the last year and now
> the completeness level is good enough that for all practical purposes
> for the average person, we have articles on everything.
> 
> Can you name another computer-based project (beside IE's
> vulnerabilities) that gets as much "good" press coverage as we do?
> 
> I suggest the ride is going to get even more fun.
> 
> People: Send in your donation, we have to ramp up.
> 
> 
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