By Thilak ⋅ February 11, 2007

Wikipedia could shut within 3-4 months?

Wikipedia is facing serious financial crunch this 2007, Florence Devouard, chairwoman of the Wikimedia Foundation at Lift07 conference said that Wikipedia has financial recourses to run their servers for the next three – four months and without further funding, Wikipedia might “disappear”.

It’s hard to believe that Wikipedia is running out of money. This might just be donation propaganda by Florence. Even if this was true, the possibility of Wikipedia coming to an end is very small because the site is worth few billions (at least), Google, Yahoo or Microsoft might acquire Wikipedia.

Wikipedia had made a pledge to remain free of advertising and sponsorships, this would soon be put under test bed.

via 901am

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Discussion

Comments for “Wikipedia could shut within 3-4 months?”

  • well most of my online knowledge came from this 2 site..wikipedia n google

    either one shut down is very bad..but im sure this kind of sites will never go down..there will always someone out there will cover up the finances
  • Actually, I heard that the rumor is false...but I didn't hear anything else about it.

    ~M~
  • Ranjani: They say that 1 million dollars is insufficient. They need about 5 million dollars to survive.
  • But they just raised more than $1,000,000. What is that going towards?

    I will be extremely sad if Wikipedia goes away :(
  • Bryan: Na.. Something makes me feel that Google isn't interested with Wikipedia.

    Anyways, would you like Wikipedia in the hands of Google?
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