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Picking up on something Eva said here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iri...12#Wikipedia_II which has affinities with some of the stuff what was discussed here http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&sh...ndpost&p=267006

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Was this meant to be a trick question? The answer appears to be so obvious: sell it to Rupert Murdoch. If he is clueless enough to think that this is such a great idea, he would probably love to get his mitts on the Wikipedia "brand" as well. Of course, he would not have any use for teh communitah or the Frei Kultur Kult--those would have to go. I imagine he would start by disabling IP editing and all passwords other than his own. Then he would appoint his own people as admins and set them to work on cleaning up the content. Old editors could reapply for accounts, but would be subject to screenings, tightened down editing rules, or most likely both. Wikipedia II would effectively become GOPedia, or Conservapedia II.

Thus, Wikipedia would be destroyed despite the survival of the "brand name", the wikipediot old guard would be left howling and gnashing their teeth in the wilderness, and then there's all that lovely Murdoch lucre:


"Yeeesss! Yeeeessss! Rupert's money, you guys! Seriously!"


Essentially, a win-win-win situation. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/happy.gif)
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Peter Damian   If you owned Wikipedia  
thekohser   Eva's a bit delusional, though:  
Eva Destruction   Eva's a bit delusional, though: A lot of b...  
thekohser   A lot of big ifs there, but in the unlikely event...  
radek   Picking up on something Eva said here http://en.w...  
radek   Picking up on something Eva said here http://en.w...  
EricBarbour   -_-  
Text   Delete everything and use the servers as hosts for...  
radek   Delete everything and use the servers as hosts fo...  
victim of censorship   Delete everything and use the servers as hosts fo...  
radek   Picking up on something Eva said here http://en.w...  
Kelly Martin   Also I'd perma ban any grad students from edit...  
radek   Also I'd perma ban any grad students from edi...  
Kelly Martin   The ratio of "things they think they know...  
radek   The ratio of "things they think they know...  
Zoloft   First, I'd sit behind my big desk and put my f...  
radek   Delete all biographies of people not dead at leas...  
Zoloft   Delete all biographies of people not dead at lea...  
radek   [quote name='radek' post='267584' date='Sat 5th F...  
WikiWatch   [*] Delete all biographies of people not dead at ...  
victim of censorship   First, I'd sit behind my big desk and put my ...  
EricBarbour   -_- -_- (Stop talking about taking over, and do...  
Zoloft   -_- -_- (Stop talking about taking over, and d...  
Brutus   If I owned Wikipedia, I'd probably do the same...  


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