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Thought exercise: if the Wikimedia Foundation collapsed today and we had to build a new version of Wikipedia without their assistance, how much would it cost?
by Ajedi32 7y ago
Thought exercise: if the Wikimedia Foundation collapsed today and we had to build a new version of Wikipedia without their assistance, how much would it cost?
Data dumps of Wikipedia's databases, and the MediaWiki software itself are all Freely and publicly available[1], so none of that would have to be rebuilt; we'd only have to create a new organizational and operational infrastructure.
[1]: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/