On 1/2/06, Lisa Thurston lisathurston@gmail.com wrote:
No I'm not suggesting that, Peter. I'm suggesting that, if Wikipedia was genuinely threatened with collapse because of money issues, donations, both corporate and personal would naturally flow in because they know how important it is.
The collapse of Wikipedia would hurt the companies reusing its product. But that's not how it's likely to play out. First Wikipedia will slow down and become less reliable, and that slowdown will only *help* the reusers because it'll shift traffic to their sites. It's also somewhat of a self-correcting problem, because the shift of readers off Wikipedia and onto the mirrors will lighten the load.
Anthony