Wikianswers launched by Wikipedia founder
Wikianswers is the latest Questions and Answers site on the web which is now available to general web audience.
It has been launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
We already have tons of other players in this market including Yahoo Answers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha.
Wikianswers is based on the same [...]

Wikipedia gets the required funds for ad-free operations
Wikipedia has a great fan base. This has been proved by the fact that the non profit organization running the popular online encyclopedia has met its $6 million fund raising goal for fiscal 2008.
The Wikimedia Foundation said it has raised $6.2 million.
It took a while and some effort [...]