2007/2/18, Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
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