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Peter Damian
post Sat 5th February 2011, 8:16am
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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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post Sun 6th February 2011, 6:35pm
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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:

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


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Peter Damian   If you owned Wikipedia   Sat 5th February 2011, 8:16am
thekohser   Eva's a bit delusional, though:   Sat 5th February 2011, 12:42pm
Eva Destruction   Eva's a bit delusional, though: A lot of b...   Sat 5th February 2011, 9:56pm
thekohser   A lot of big ifs there, but in the unlikely event...   Sat 5th February 2011, 10:25pm
radek   Picking up on something Eva said here http://en.w...   Sun 6th February 2011, 1:19am
radek   Picking up on something Eva said here http://en.w...   Sun 6th February 2011, 1:30am
EricBarbour   -_-   Sun 6th February 2011, 1:33am
Text   Delete everything and use the servers as hosts for...   Sun 6th February 2011, 1:46am
radek   Delete everything and use the servers as hosts fo...   Sun 6th February 2011, 2:05am
victim of censorship   Delete everything and use the servers as hosts fo...   Sun 6th February 2011, 3:27am
radek   Picking up on something Eva said here http://en.w...   Sun 6th February 2011, 2:15am
Kelly Martin   Also I'd perma ban any grad students from edit...   Sun 6th February 2011, 3:16am
radek   Also I'd perma ban any grad students from edi...   Sun 6th February 2011, 3:29am
Kelly Martin   The ratio of "things they think they know...   Sun 6th February 2011, 3:38am
radek   The ratio of "things they think they know...   Sun 6th February 2011, 3:40am
Zoloft   First, I'd sit behind my big desk and put my f...   Sun 6th February 2011, 5:51am
radek   Delete all biographies of people not dead at leas...   Sun 6th February 2011, 7:32am
Zoloft   Delete all biographies of people not dead at lea...   Sun 6th February 2011, 8:37am
radek   [quote name='radek' post='267584' date='Sat 5th F...   Sun 6th February 2011, 9:09am
WikiWatch   [*] Delete all biographies of people not dead at ...   Sun 6th February 2011, 9:12am
victim of censorship   First, I'd sit behind my big desk and put my ...   Sun 6th February 2011, 10:47pm
EricBarbour   -_- -_- (Stop talking about taking over, and do...   Sun 6th February 2011, 9:13am
Zoloft   -_- -_- (Stop talking about taking over, and d...   Mon 7th February 2011, 1:26am
Brutus   If I owned Wikipedia, I'd probably do the same...   Tue 8th February 2011, 8:57am


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