[WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

[MuZemike]

I thought I read somewhere that Rupert Murdoch seeks to shut down 
Wikipedia because of its "free information" threat to his and other 
similar media empires.

-MuZemike

On 12/21/2010 1:58 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Since Wikipedia grew and became more ambitious in its scope, there
> have been predictions of its downfall, many of them giving an estimate
> for the timescale of its demise.  If you hunt around you may find a
> prediction by me that Wikipedia was unlikely to survive much beyond
> 2010 because I thought it would decline in populatrity. Since then
> Wikipedia has cemented itself into the fabric of modern culture and
> become particularly useful in academia, where its strengths and
> limitations are now well understood.
>
> Reading the references Joseph Reagle's book I encountered this:
>
> http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/12/wikipedia_will_1.htm
>
> Wikipedia, it appears, was destined to die within four years--by
> December 5, 2010, because it would be involved in an unwinnable war
> with marketers,
>
> Since it's Christmas, the new year is coming, and we'll soon be
> bouncing out of that into a celebration of Wikipedia's first decade,
> perhaps now it the time to look back at the predictions of Wikipedia's
> demise.
>
> What are your favorite predictions of Wikideath?
>
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