On 10/26/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24/10/2007, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 10/24/07, Robert Rohde
<rarohde(a)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?
Well, according to Wikipedia's article on Wikia, they have 35 employees and
have picked up ~$14 million in venture capital. According to Alexa they are
currently in the mid 500s for rank among all web destinations. A CNN
article from March suggested they have ~2.5 million page views per day,
which would probably put them between $1 and $10 million in ad revenue per
year.
And why are we wasting our time working on Wikipedia? ;-)
-Robert Rohde