If you owned Wikipedia, what would you do with it Options

[Peter Damian]

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

[Cedric]

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.