[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

Thu Mar 20 22:42:36 UTC 2008

On 20/03/2008, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:

>  During the next 3-10 years I expect to see Wikipedia's monopoly on
>  collaboratively written internet encyclopedias to be significantly eroded by
>  serious competitors.  In my opinion, a commercial fork is a likely avenue
>  for such competition (though not the only one).

> I don't think that Wikipedia would ever be
>  wiped out by competitors, but it isn't that hard for me to imagine scenarios
>  in which Wikipedia loses the bulk of the traffic and importance it has
>  today.

I'd say such an outcome wouldn't actually be a bad thing in terms of
our mission. It would spread knowledge better than we can do on our
own.

- d.