Editing Making Wikipedia profitable (section)

== Exciting new 21st Century Methods ==

*branded merchandising - t-shirts are always popular amongst geeks, print up some of the most favourite and oddball pages and sell hundreds.

*micro-payment system - add a small donation button to the top and tail of each page. 

*Wikipedia CD/DVD - wait a while, bring across the majority of the well authored and edited pages to CD/DVD and add in loads and loads of multimedia content; videos, music, pictures. Package it up, sell it for a reasonable price and watch the money roll in! This is probably one of the best ways for Wikipedia to make money in the long run, there are still billions of people without high-speed Internet access (or any at all) and the added advantage of multimedia would even make it a draw for those who can get to the website.

* On [[Special:Booksources]] add a explicit link to a commercial online bookstore (for example Amazon.com), which will pay Wikimedia some kickback (Amazon.de pays 5%). Users who want to can use this link to buy their books there and donate to Wikimedia and the same time. ([http://www.Bookzilla.de Bookzilla.de] is a similar project paying 5% to the Free Software Foundation.)

* Fork the wikipedia.com away from wikipedia.org, and use a template with text merchant links for pages that mention products (books, authors, musicians, games, electronics).  Add a "Flag this" mechanism so that if more than N people flag a page, the ads disappear.  
 
Just as money gained the word 'currency' to indicate the flow of money, we now need to go meta on information to look at the flow of information.