Wikipedia Quotes
Wiki Quotes
“At this point, Wikipedia has the financial ressources to run its servers for about 3 to 4 months. If we do not find additional funding, it is not impossible that Wikipedia might disappear.”
- Florence Devouard – Chairwoman of the Wikimedia Foundation
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“Wikipedia could be on the skids, something of a downer for those of us who’ve come to depend on it for everything we claim to know.”
- Romeike
Re: Reference to the gift economy made by Florence Devouard …
“Lewis Hyde’s The Gift Economy was written in the late 1970s but only published in the UK at the end of last year. Hyde’s discussion of the meaning and function of “gifts” in Pacific and Native American tribal societies – in essence, defining communities by a fluid circle of non-commercial bonds formed by gift exchange between individuals or families – describes processes similar to those at play in the movement of content/ideas in social media.”
- Romeike
“… they need more funds to keep servers up and running.”
- Robert Scoble
Wikipedia running out of cash?
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