Encyclopedia Sales, Man. Options

[mbz1]

I'd like to ask, if Wikipedia could be sold, and if so, who'd get the money.

[EricBarbour]

The annual report?? The annual report???? Ha ha haha!

The annual report is propaganda. Full of insane bullshit that they will never accomplish.

Would you like to go over the bullet points?

Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25%

FAIL

Increase the percentage of Global South editors to 37%

They might pull that off, unfortunately all the results will be in Spanish and Portuguese.

Increase the total number of people served to one billion

How in the hell do they calculate that?? According to their own chart, Wikipedia has served only about 1.5 billion people OVER ITS ENTIRE HISTORY. Is that supposed to be one billion per year? Every ten years? Bullshit.

Increase the number of Wikipedia articles we offer to 50 million

If they reach 10 million, it will be a MIRACLE.
Because 80+% of the new articles being made today are stubs generated by bots.
Stubs no one will EVER read or expand. With a high proportion of obscure species of plant and
invertebrate (stolen from other websites of course), placenames in Turkey (thanks a lot Blofeld),
and of course, football players.

Ensure information is high quality by increasing the percentage of material reviewed to be of high or very high quality by 25%

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Encourage readers to become contributors by increasing the number of total editors who make at least 5 edits per month to 200,000

(IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/angry.gif) Hopeless. People are still quitting in droves.

Instead of spending that $7.48 million they banked in 2010 on outreach and advertising, they are sitting on it.

Plus, the latest financial statement from 2010.
Note page 2--that outfit is raking in money like a bandit.

It is not an "encyclopedia", it is a fundraising scam.