On 4/10/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
How many mirrors is enough? 1000? 10,000? 100,000? Eventually I imagine the market will become saturated, when a new mirror can't recover its minimal startup costs, even with the most aggressive SEO techniques. What will the Internet look like then? Will the average user be able to find independent information in the search engines, which didn't come from Wikpedia?
I guess that within this theoretical framework, you have to decide whether you're more interested in what's good for the internet or what's good for WMF. Fortunately, that's a false dilemma, as we seem to be getting by just fine with donations. The only way we would be forced to make such a decision is if we chose to adopt this idea.
Ryan