On 10/20/05, Neil Harris <usenet(a)tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
Alphax wrote:
* Once we have the infrastructure, have entire
database backups (or at
least parts of them) scattered around the place so that should Florida
go down for an extended period (or be destroyed completely), everything
would still be safe. I forget what the estimated worth of all the
Wikimedia content is, but I believe it's in the millions of dollars.
Well, as of July 2005, all of the different language editions of
Wikipedia came to 491 M words: it must be _considerably_ greater than
that now. At a journalist's rate of $1/word, that would make Wikipedia
worth in excess of $500,000,000.
-- Neil
They get about 50 billion hits a year, right? So at $2 CPM that's $100
million a year, and at a P/E of 20 that's $2 billion. Of course, that's more
than just the value of the content, and it ignores the expenses to run the
site, which isn't much compared to $100 million a year.
It's too bad non-profits can't IPO. :)