[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia struggles, Mozilla set for life?
geni
geniice at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 22:39:40 UTC 2007
On 24/10/2007, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A corporation willing to invest $10M could very credibly seek to fork
> > Wikipedia, develop an advertising supported model, and introduce changes in
> > the community structure that might attact new volunteers.
>
> Some things are more likely to happen in theory than in practice. :-)
> Few corporations even begin to grasp the dynamics of a community like
> ours. Wikia is a notable exception; they actually seem to genuinely
> care about building real communities, respect free licensing, etc. But
> look who started that company.
Wikia has picked up how much funding?
And digital universe certainly started off with $10 million
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geni
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