On 10/20/05, Neil Harris usenet@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. :)