On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Marcus Buck <me(a)marcusbuck.org> wrote:
If Wikipedia is worth 7 billions at the moment, that
would mean, every
article is worth (we hit 10 million articles some time ago) some 700
dollars. Oh my god! If I idiot wouldn't have released my articles under
fucking GFDL and if I instead had sold them on the free market, I could
be a millionaire! I should stop contributing to Wikipedia at once ;-)
The articles are worth very little, even if they weren't under the
GFDL. The domain name is worth a lot, though not, in my opinion, $7
billion. The $7 billion figure assumes ads could be implemented
without any costs and without traffic going down. I say ads, traffic,
no expenses - pick two. Facebook picked 1 and 2. Wikipedia picked 2
and 3. My websites picked 1 and 3.