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