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Re:Facebook is unfixable. We need a nonprofit, public-spirit... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:00PM (#16778229)
The article makes a mistake in comparing Wikipedia to Facebook.

Wikipedia has roughly 100M daily unique devices which access it. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/reportcard/#daily...

Wikipedia had roughly 140K users who performed an action in the last month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

Facebook had 1.4 billion daily active users https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

That is over 2 orders of magnitude difference in logged in users, and 1 order of magnitude in daily visitors.

Add to that the fact that Facebook has much more dynamic content compared to the mostly static content of Wikipedia.

I don't think managing something on the scale of Facebook is something Wikipedia Foundation would be remotely close to being able to do.

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