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[Kul Takanao Wadhwa]

> 
> During the next 3-10 years I expect to see Wikipedia's monopoly on
> collaboratively written internet encyclopedias to be significantly eroded by
> serious competitors.  In my opinion, a commercial fork is a likely avenue
> for such competition (though not the only one).  How well we withstand that
> competition is likely to depend on the capability and flexibility of the WMF
> team being assembled now.  I'd like to see the WMF as the dominant player in
> collaborative knowledge creation and sharing going into the indefinite
> future, but given that the WMF has no ownership of content, I would say that
> this is far from a sure thing.  I don't think that Wikipedia would ever be
> wiped out by competitors, but it isn't that hard for me to imagine scenarios
> in which Wikipedia loses the bulk of the traffic and importance it has
> today.
> 
> -Robert Rohde

This is actually a great point that we should take very seriously.

Kul

Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Head of Business Development
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
kul at wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 ext. 603