2007/2/18, Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com:
Users will be somewhat unhappy if all of Wikipedia goes down and never comes back. Users will be *much more* unhappy if Wikipedia continues to operate but is extremely slow, unreliable, and often down.
"Somewhat unhappy"? Come on dude. I mean, seriously.
Yeah, just somewhat unhappy. It's a problem, but also a chance. The great thing about having this project copyleft as it is, is that if Wikipedia would go down, anyone can take the content and start it again. And I'm quite convinced that if it were now announced that Wikimedia might have to close down in three months, before those three months were over there would be quite a number of people and groups doing exactly that. And where we now have one big Wikipedia, we would then have a multitude of small ones. Which has both advantages and disadvantages.