"We will have more and more and more millions, but we will still... yes... obsolete." Galder
What phenomenon do you see challenge Wikipedias role as a source for common knowledge, an encyklopedia for everyone?
I see that for the last 20 years no successful commercial encyclopedia has been launched.
I see how the social media have a hard time to be a platform for common knowledge and hard pressed to employ armies of moderators. And Google very happy to lean and steal from Wikipedia rather the do something similar themself (which would go down badly in the public)
But the war of information is a reality and heating up. We can be very glad that so far we have not been a target of all angriness of what is to be seen as the "correct" information. But that could change, what if a new administration in US want to control what is written in Wikipedia. Or China want to set up a parallel in English as the have now in Chinese. If these thing happen we need to have resources to fight off these type a of challenges, not only for our own sake but for he people in the world who is used to turn to Wikipedia for basic facts.
We are the opposite to obsolete, we are in the front seat and driving for correct facts in the emerging information war we now see
Anders