Wikipedia to shut down?
Despite getting an infusion of over one million dollars Wikipedia’s chair woman, Florence Devouard, has suggested that in three or four months the site will ‘disappear’.
Lets see, a site that runs no ads and handles millions of hits with no real plan on how to pay for their infrastructure – sounds like a business plan to me!
Even though the article says the quote that Florence gave was taken out of context, the site can’t remain donation based forever. Wikipedia needs rich benefactors and I see a Google acquisition in its future. It fits into Google’s business plan of acquiring and digitizing a vast majority of the worlds information.
