* Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com [Fri, 15 May 2009 13:55:22 -0400]:
Wikimedia is nowhere *close* to the largest MySQL user. It's a mid-sized MySQL user at most. It's one of the largest *websites* using MySQL, but there are data warehouses and whatnot that have vastly larger databases, and definitely more valuable ones. Besides, we don't pay them any money, unlike some of their enterprise users.
What can be more valuable than a general knowledge? Some lists of personal info or another statistical data, which will become outdated pretty soon? Only a non-completely free databases of scientific works and publications such as ArtStor are coming to my mind as being really comparable to what wikipedia offers.. Dmitriy