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 “disappearâ€.
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.
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wrote, on February 11th, 2007
well, i don’t think its possible, and yes, either google or some other comany might buy if so!!!
BTW, i have linked to this site from mine. Will you link to me too??? as a link exchange???
URL: http://science-core.blogspot.com/
thanx,
Srikanth
wrote, on February 11th, 2007
Srikanth: Thanks for sharing your link love. As you can see.. my sidebar is quite filled up. I’ll consider swapping links with you at somepoint in future.
wrote, on February 11th, 2007
sorry, but i deleted that post.
where have u placed my link???
wrote, on February 11th, 2007
I hope it does not happen , it is a great site for info ..
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
I am sure some big company would buy them out if they were going down hill. In all reality they should sell now and get a higher price. My best guess is that Google will buy it. Google is greedy now.
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
Bryan: Na.. Something makes me feel that Google isn’t interested with Wikipedia.
Anyways, would you like Wikipedia in the hands of Google?
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
But they just raised more than $1,000,000. What is that going towards?
I will be extremely sad if Wikipedia goes away
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
Ranjani: They say that 1 million dollars is insufficient. They need about 5 million dollars to survive.
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
Actually, I heard that the rumor is false…but I didn’t hear anything else about it.
~M~
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
[...] Contrary to what I have been reading of the blogs, Wikipedia is not heading for a closure. [...]
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
[...] Via Tech-Buzz, it seems that according to Florence Devouard, the chairwoman of the Wikimedia Foundation at Lift07 conference, Wikipedia is facing serious financial issues in running their servers for 2007 and they are only able to run them for three to four months at the most without any further funding. After that time, Wikipedia might “disappear”. [...]
wrote, on February 12th, 2007
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